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Expectations for American Literature
Research Assignment
General Format
 Paper must be typed on standard white
paper.
 Text of paper must be double-spaced,
including the heading.
 Margins are set at 1 inch for left, right,
top, and bottom
 There must be a header on the right side
that has the writer’s last name and the
page number.
Heading and Title
Dirt 1
Joe Dirt
Mrs. Cable
Note: header to the right
This is the correct order for
information
American Lit
January 30, 2014
The Sky’s the Limit: My Plan to become a Pilot
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Whenever you
quote, paraphrase,
summarize, or
otherwise refer to
the work of another,
you are required to
cite its source.
In other words, give
credit where credit is
due!
In other words:
DON’T PLAGERIZE!!
In MLA documentation
style, you acknowledge your
sources by keying brief
parenthetical citations in
your text to an alphabetical
list of works that appear at
the end of the paper.
In-Text Citations
 MLA uses parenthetical citation
(information about the source inside
parentheses).
 When possible, work the citation into a
sentence that contains some of your own
words.
 Example: Romantic poetry is characterized
by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
Note that the period is inserted after the last
parenthesis, not after the quotation mark.
Make Your Life Easier
• For the purposes of this research paper, make
note of the source’s address as you go along. If
you can’t find it later, when preparing your Works
Cited page, you cannot use the source!
• The lack of an author most often occurs when
using an Internet source. You can still use the
source. Begin by listing a title, or name of the
webpage.
• Avoid using any Internet source with an address
ending in “.com” unless approved by your
instructor. “edu” and “org” are generally more
reliable.
Citing Internet Sources
You do not need to give paragraph
numbers or page numbers based on
your print preview.
Do not list the URL address within
the text of the paper; save it for the
Works Cited page. Instead, list the
author of the source, the title, or
the name of the webpage.
Methods of Parenthetical Citation
• The following are examples from Purdue
OWL: MLA Format:
• According to some, dreams express
“profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes
184), though others disagree.
• According to Foulkes’s study, dreams may
express “profound aspects of personality”
(184).
• Is it possible that dreams may express
“profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes
184)?
Quotes of More than Four Lines
 You may use only 1 or 2 such quotes in your research paper. The
paper should be mainly your thoughts.
Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him
when
she says:
They entirely refused to have in bed with them, or
even in their room, and I put it on the landing of the
stairs, hoping it would be gone in the morrow. By
chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept into
Mr. Earnshaw’s door, and there he found it on his quitting
chamber. (Bronte 78)
Note placement of period with quote, lack of
quotation marks, and lack of punctuation after
the parenthesis.
Make Your Life Easier
• For the purposes of this research paper, make
note of the source’s address as you go along. If
you can’t find it later, when preparing your Works
Cited page, you cannot use the source!
• The lack of an author most often occurs when
using an Internet source. You can still use the
source. Begin by listing a title, or name of the
webpage.
• Avoid using any Internet source with an address
ending in “.com” unless approved by your
instructor. “edu” and “org” are generally more
reliable.
Works Cited
• Begin on a separate page and label as
Works Cited (no italics or quotation
marks).
• Double space, but do not skip spaces
between entries.
• Indent the second and subsequent lines
five spaces.
• List page numbers only when needed.
• Determine the Medium of Publication.
Most will be print or web sources.
Works Cited
Work from a web source:
Last name, First name. Title of Source.
Name of Institution publishing the
source. Date source was published.
Web. Date you viewed source on the
web.
Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.“
E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007:
26-31. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan
2013.
Works Cited – Entire Web Site
 Editor, or author (if available). Name of Site.
Version number. Name of institution/
organization affiliated with the site (sponsor
or publisher), date of resource creation (if
available). Medium of publication. Date of
access.
 The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing
Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008.
Web. 23 Apr. 2008.
Works Cited
Basic Format: Last name, First name. Title
of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher,
Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Work from an Anthology: Last name, First
name. “Title of Story.” Title of Anthology.
Ed. Editor’s Name. Place of Publication,
Publisher, Year. Page range of entry.
Medium.
Works Cited
Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.“
E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007: 26-31. SIRS
Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan 2013.
College Board. (14 Jan 2013) <http://www.collegeboard.org/ >
Purdue University. (14 Jan 2013) <www.purdue.edu/>
Works Cited
Aristotle. Poetics. Ed. S. H. Butcher. The
Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Sept. 2007. Web.
23 Nov. 2011.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn
and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring.
Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
Wysocki. Anne Frances. Writing New Media:
Theory and Applications for Expanding the
Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah
State UP, 2004. Print.
Group Practice
• Write out this source correctly:
• An anthology named Literature:
Approaches to Fiction, Poetry and Drama.
The editor is Robert DiYanni. It is
published by McGraw Hill in 2008. The
story you have cited is “The Rocking Horse
Winner” by D. H. Lawrence, who was born
in 1885 and died in 1930. The pages the
story appear on are from page 100 to
110.
Source Used for This PowerPoint
 The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 4
Oct. 2011.
 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095
636_747.pdf
 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095
636_747.pdf