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HOW TO DO MLA in-text parenthetical citations:
Single author named in parentheses.
The tendency to come to terms with difficult experiences is referred to as a "purification process" whereby "threatening or painful dissonances are warded off to preserve intact a clear and articulated image of oneself and one’s place in the world" (Sennett 11).
Single author named in a signal phrase.
Social historian Richard Sennett names the tendency to come to terms with difficult experiences a "purification process" whereby "threatening or painful dissonances are warded off to preserve intact a clear and articulated image of oneself and one’s place in the world" (11).
Two or more authors.
Certain literacy theorists have gone so far as to declare that "the most significant elements of human culture are undoubtedly channeled through words, and reside in the particular range of meanings and attitudes which members of any society attach to their verbal symbols" (Goody and Watt 323).
Corporate author (organization, association, etc.).
The federal government has funded research concerning consumer protection and consumer transactions with online pharmacies (Food and Drug Administration 125).
Works with no author.
Several critics of the concept of the transparent society ask if a large society would be able to handle the complete loss of privacy ("Surveillance Society" 115).
Two or more works by the same author.
In his investigation of social identity, The Uses of Disorder, Sennett defines adulthood as a stage where people "learn to tolerate painful ambiguity and uncertainty" (108).
In a surprising move, Richard Sennett combines the idea of power with that of virtue: "the idea of strength is complex in ordinary life because of what might be called the element of its integrity" (Authority 19).
Work found in an anthology or edited collection.
For an essay, short story, or other document included in an anthology or edited collection, use the name of the author of the work, not the editor of the anthology or collection, but use the page numbers from the anthology or collection.
Lawrence Rosenfield analyzes the way in which New York’s Central Park held a socializing function for nineteenth-century residents similar to that of traditional republican civic oratory (222).
Bible passage.
Unfortunately, the president could not recall the truism that "Wisdom is a fountain to one who has it, but folly is the punishment of fools" (New Oxford Annotated Bible, Prov. 20-22).
Secondary source of a quotation (someone quoted within the text of another author).
As Erickson reminds us, the early psychoanalysts focused on a single objective: "introspective honesty in the service of self enlightenment" (qtd. in Weiland 42).
Web page.
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was designated as a National Historical Site in 1959 (National Park Service).
HOW TO DO A WORKS CONSULTED:
This project will also include a Works Consulted, as opposed to a Works Cited - this means that all genres gathered for the project will be presented in this document, as follows:
Print Magazine:
Gawande, Atul. "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating." New Yorker
9 Jul. 2001: 66-75. Print.
Online Magazine:
Saletan, William. "The Ethicist's New Clothes." Slate.com. Slate,
16 August 2001. Web. 17 August 2001.
Full Text Article from Database:
Gore, Rick. "Pharaohs of the Sun." National Geographic Apr. 2001.
Academic Search Premier. Web. 21 Aug. 2001.
Books with a Single Author:
Fleming, Thomas. Liberty!: The American Revolution.
New York: Viking, 1997. Print.
Two Authors:
Sennett, Richard, and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden Injuries of Class.
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. Print.
Encyclopedia and other Multi Volume Works:
Lumiansky, R.M. "Chaucer." The New Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Macropaedia. 15th ed. 1998. Print.
Print Newspaper:
Holden, Stephen. "Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop."
New York Times 16 May 1998, natl. ed.: A1+. Print.
Online Newspaper:
Wright, Steven. "Curriculum 2000 Draws Criticism." The Chronicle:
the Independent Daily at Duke University. 25 Jan. 2001.
Web. 7 Nov. 2001.
A Letter:
Miller, Ella. Letter to Ella V. Rinker. Mar. 1865. MS. Ella V. Rinker
and Reuben E. Hammon Papers. Rare Book, Manuscript
and Special Collections Lib., Duke U, Durham, NC.
An Interview:
Elloie, Pealie Hardin. Interview with Kate Ellis. Behind the Veil:
Documenting African-American Life in the Jim
Crow South. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Lib., Duke U, Durham, NC. 15 July 1994.
Audiocassette.
A Film:
Platoon. Dir. Oliver Stone. Perf. Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and
Charlie Sheen. Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.
Videocassette.
A Website:
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. National Park
Service, 11 Feb. 2003. Web. 13 Feb. 2003.
< HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/abli/" http://www.nps.gov/abli/>.
Online Posting:
Casper, Karl. "Re: Watered Down Curricula." Math Forum. Drexel
U., 1 Oct. 2001. Web. 26 Oct. 2001. < HYPERLINK "http://mathforum.org/" http://mathforum.org/>
Email:
Baker, Virginia. "Tips for finding sources." Message to Jane Robinson.
28 Oct. 2002. E-mail.
Book Review:
Salinger, Sharon V. Rev. of Not All Wives: Women of Colonial
Philadelphia, by Karin Wulf. The Journal of American
History 88 (2001): 184-185. Print.
Government Document:
United States. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Hearing on the
Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998. 105th Cong.,2nd sess. S.J. Res. 1529. Washington: GPO, 1999. Print.
You Tube:
Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." 04 April 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 22 April 2006. < HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k>
Podcast:
Mondello, Bob. "Charlton Heston, Old-School Gentleman, Dies at 84." 8 May 2008. Podcast. "NPR Movies." National Public Radio. 10 April 2008. < HYPERLINK "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89421208" http://www.npr.org/ templates/story/story.php?storyId=89421208>
Television News Program:
"Torture." Narr. Scott Pelley. Sixty Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 30 March 2008.
Television Show:
"Trash of the Titans." The Simpsons, Season 9. Dir. Jim Reardon, Mark Kirkland, et al. Voices: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer. CBS. KPIX, San Francisco. 10 September 2006.
Work of Art:
Artist's last name, first name. Title of the work. Museum, City.
HOW TO CITE IMAGES:
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/daap/resources/Citing%20Images2.pdf
HOW TO CITE MUSIC:
http://library.otterbein.edu/tutorial/Citing%20Sources%20for%20Music.pdf
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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