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You Need To Know This

Learn how to properly cite books, articles, and websites using MLA format in Dr. Melillo's English and Creative Writing class. Includes examples and guidelines.

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You Need To Know This

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  1. You Need To Know This Dr. Melillo’s English Class (Creative Writing too)

  2. Using MLA Heading • Last Name 1 • First Last Name • Dr. Melillo • Course Name Block # • Assignment Name • Day Month Year

  3. Heading Looks Like This • Jones 1 • Melissa Jones • Dr. Melillo • ENG 2H Block 2 • Poetry Paper • 12 March 2013

  4. Using Italics • Book Titles The Picture of Dorian Gray • Movie Titles Citizen Kane • Magazine Titles Sports Illustrated • Websites Google If these are handwritten, use underline.

  5. Using “Quotation Marks” • Poems “Choose Something Like a Star” • Magazine Articles “Danica Patrick Speaks Out” • Short Stories “Tell-Tale Heart” • Songs “Hotel California” • Website Articles “Edgar Allen Poe”

  6. WORKS CITED IN TEXT • “Put the quote in quotation marks” (Author last name pg.#). • “It looks like this” (Melillo 1). • If you name the author in the sentence, it looks like this: • Dr. Melillo states, “It looks like this” (1). • If it has no author, it looks like this: • “Here is the quote” (“Article name” 1)

  7. ELECTRONIC CITING IN TEXT • If the article has an author, it looks like this: • “Citizen Kane is based upon William Randolph Hearst” (Smith, “Citizen Kane”). • If the article doesn’t have an author, it looks like this: • “Citizen Kane is based upon William Randolph Hearst” ( “Citizen Kane,”Movie Trivia).

  8. WORKS CITED: BOOK • Book with author: • Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: • Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. • It looks like this: • Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: • Penguin, 1987. Print.

  9. WORKS CITED: PERIODICALS • Author(s) "Title of Article." Title of Periodical. Day Month Year: • pages. Medium of publication. • It looks like this: • Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time. • 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Print.

  10. WORKS CITED: ELECTRONIC • Remember to use n.d. if no publishing date is given. • Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). “Name of article.” Name of Site. date created (if available).or n.d. Medium of publication. Date of access. It looks like this: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.

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