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MLA for your Extended Essay

This guide provides instructions and tips for using MLA style for your extended essay. It covers in-text citations, creating a works cited page, and referencing online materials.

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MLA for your Extended Essay

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  1. MLA for your Extended Essay Mr. Crouch

  2. Remember • Add sources to your working bibliography AS YOU USE THEM. Don’t wait until the end of the writing process. • Save your work to more than one place. • Use a single document, containing your draft AND draft works cited • Do use in-text citations - Don’t use footnotes • Use the EE Word template

  3. Where to find help • Basic instructions in using MLA can be found the Library website www.seniorlibraries.isdedu.de • The website password is: isdstudents • Use EasyBib • Ask Mr. C for help

  4. The system used at ISD • In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as an in-text citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase. • (Smith 78) • (Smith & Jones 78) • (Smith et al. 78) • (“The world today”)

  5. Citing within the text • Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). • Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

  6. This is how the bibliographic record (in the Works Cited) would look Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.

  7. PART 2 – Works Cited • Works cited means a list of any documents or other resources you have quoted to create your work. • Each item on the list refers to an in-text citation.

  8. Internet examples "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." EHow. Leaf Group, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2018. <http://www.ehow.com/how_10727_make- vegetarian-chili.html>. Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. Purdue University, 10 May 2006. Web. 16 Feb. 2018. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ owl/resource/557/01>.

  9. MLA 7 or 8 • Please continue to use MLA7 (because MLA8 does not show the date accessed) • Referencing online materials • References to online materials should include the title of the extract used as well as the website address, the date it was accessed and, if possible, the author. With regard to electronic sources, the requirement of the IB for date stamping supersedes the requirements of the chosen referencing system. In other words, all electronic sources must be date stamped by including the date the student accessed the resource • (for example, accessed 12 March 2016). Caution should be exercised with information found on websites that do not give references or that cannot be cross-checked against other sources. The more important a particular point is to the essay, the more the quality of its source needs to be evaluated.

  10. Come and get a Questia Account! • Thank you • Mr. C 

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