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4 MLAExercise 2328 SPR 11
4 MLAExercise 2328 SPR 11
Spring 2011
Example Source
/ne of our short stories entitled (he Fall of the 8ouse of 0sher by 'dgar Allan *oe, included on pages 79:-7,: in the eighth edition of our anthology entitled Literature) An $ntroduction to ;eading and Writing and edited by 'dgar < ;oberts and 8enry ' =acobs (he anthology was published in .99: in 0pper #addle ;i2er, &ew =ersey, by *rentice 8all 10') We will go o2er the exercise together in class next period, but those students who ha2e a good start on the exercise at the start of class will recei2e 3early-bird3 credit (he assignment will be due at your rough draft conference the next week Works Cited entry *oe, 'dgar Allan 3(he Fall of the 8ouse of 0sher 3 The American Tradition in Literature
'ds %eorge *erkins and >arbara *erkins <ol , ,.th ed >oston) Mc%raw-8ill, .99? @:.-@@A $n-text Citation #trategy , First mention of source +introBtagBdoc-) $n 'dgar Allan *oeCs short story entitled 3(he Fall of the 8ouse of 0sher,3 the narrator describes his feelings about the setting as 3an utter depression of soul which $ can compare to no earthly sensation3 +@:.-
$n-text Citation #trategy . #ubseDuent mention of source with last name in sentence +tagBdoc-) *oe ends the story with a description of the fall of the house) 3the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently o2er the fragments of the C8ouse of 0sherC3 +@@A$n-text Citation #trategy 5 #ubseDuent mention of source with source not named in sentence +doc-) (here is a poem in the story entitled 3(he 8aunted *alace,3 and the first two lines read) 3$n the greenest of our 2alleys B >y good angels tenanted3 +*oe @::, lines ,-.-
Practice Sources
, A book published by Longman *ublishers entitled 0nderstanding the Concept of 8appiness, by =ulia *rewitt >rown, an associate professor of *hilosophy at >oston 0ni2ersity (he book, ,5: pages long, was published in &ew 4ork in .99A Works Cited 'ntry)
>y =ohn ;eynolds, =r , and =erry #mith, a "ournal article entitled 3'dgar Allan *oe and the *hilosophy of Fear3 in the =une .99A issue of the American Literary #cholarship, 2olume :@, winter issue, pages @@7-@?. (he "ournal uses continuous pagination Works Cited 'ntry)
(he electronic 2ersion of an article entitled 8istory and Fear by *rofessor Fenneth % =ohnston that you found using the Academic #earch Complete database at the C(C library web site (he source of the article is the "ournal #tudies in World 8istory, 2olume ,9, no ., Autumn, ,??., pp .55-.5@ Works Cited 'ntry)
An essay entitled Fear as a *ositi2e Force by 1r #te2en >oyd, included on pages .A7.77 in the se2enth edition of Critical 'ssays on *opular *sychology, edited by 8arold ;osenbloom and =ulius Cox (he anthology was published in &ew 4ork by *egasus, an imprint of Addison Wesley *ublishers, $nc , in .995 Works Cited 'ntry)
A web page entitled 3,9 $mportant *oints about 'dgar Allan *oe3 that you found online at http)BBwww smithblog comBpersonalopinion html (he site pro2ides no publishing information besides the authorCs name, *eter #mith 5
Extra !re"it
For those of you working ahead, please draft both an +,- in-text citation sample sentence and a +.- Works Cited entry for one of your sources for your research paper using MLA documentation format Works Cited 'ntry)