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Hacker Chapter 59 MLA

Using

the article on page 344 in your Ramage text, create a citation for a works cited page.

Used

to document sources to avoid plagiarism Consult OWL at Purdue for up-to-date formulas http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Bibliography generators are like Word and dont always catch errors

Demonstrate CCAC bib generator

Entries are arranged alphabetically by author, or by title if there is no author Each entry includes medium of publication of source (Print, Web, DVD, etc) It there is more than one entry per author, works are arranged alphabetically by title For second and all additional entries, type three hyphens and a period in place of the authors name Link to example on Owl at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Every source on Works Cited must be mentioned in body of paper Every source cited in an in-text citation must be included on Works Cited page First word in each entry of Works Cited must also appear in the in-text citation

The following is an excerpt from an essay: This disenfranchisement over his marginalization in Anglo society [affected] his individual psyche (Delgadillo 99). -----------------------------------------------------------------Stanko 17 Works Cited Delgadillo, Theresa. Forms of Chicana Feminist Resistance: Hybrid Spirituatlity in Ana Castillos So Far From God. Modern Fiction Studies 44.4 (1998):79 102. Print.

In-text citations contain two elements Last name of author Page number of quoted or paraphrased passage Information can be placed in parentheses immediately after the material being cited

The Spanish tried to reduce the status of Filipina women, who had been able to do business, get divorced, and sometimes become village chiefs (Karnow 41).

Or place authors name in an attributive tag at the beginning of the source material and the page number in parentheses at the end
According to Karnow, the Spanish tried to reduce the status of Filipina women, who had been able to do business, get divorced, and sometimes become village chiefs (41).

Using

the article on page 344 in your Ramage text, create a citation for a works cited page.

Dicke, Marcel and Arnold Van Huis. The SixLegged Meat of the Future. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. Ed. John D. Ramage, John C. Bean, and June Johnson. New York: Pearson Longman, 2012. 344 - 346. Print.

Your essay is 9 pages in length. Create a complete MLA Works Cited Page using sources listed on Weebly.

interview in person with Robert Akins, November 19, 2010 Website article by Dr. Joshua Smith entitled The Many Uses of Pencils. It was published March 22, 2010 and viewed August 3, 2012. The URL is www.articlesonline.smith/pencils.html Pens vs. Pencils written by Henry Goldman and Elizabeth Howard. Published by Gold House in Philadelphia in 1989. The Beauty of Mechanical Pencils by Alexander Morrow, published by Westing Forge in Denver, CO in 2011. Short video called The Ink of Mystery, directed by Bernard Howard and starring Kurt Sherman, distributed by Public Video in November 2009. Encyclopedia of Style article, Writing Utensils, by John Gruber, published in 2008, 5th edition

Classical argument final written copy due

Submit rubric/peer review, final copy, prewrite (discussion sheets), plan, rough draft

Read Ramage chapter 11 and answer the following questions: 1. What is a definition argument? 2. What is the Criteria-Match structure of a definition argument? 3. How do you conduct the definition part of a definition argument? 4. How do you conduct the match part of a definition argument? 5. What is a resemblance argument? 6. What types of resemblance arguments exist?

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