Aim: to learn how to cite sources correctly.

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Aim to learn how to cite sources correctly.
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Step One

• Get your hands on an MLA Style Manual.
• Visit the following website
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
  
• Or use another online MLA Style Manual.
• BTW, feel free to use reputable citation editors
  E.g. easybib.com

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What is the difference between a Bibliography and
a Works Cited List?

• Works Cited and Bibliography are not the same. In
  Works Cited you only list items you have actually
  cited. In a Bibliography you list all of the
  material you have consulted in preparing your
  essay whether or not you have actually cited the
  work. http//www.aresearchguide.com/10works.htm
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What is the most common mistake amongst Freshman?

• Bulleting or numbering

Dont do it!
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And the second most common mistake is?

• You must remember to alphabetize your sources!

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In addition, you must always use

• Parenthetical citations in your essay What are
  parenthetical citations? See next page.

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E.g.

• The modern world requires both the ability to
  concentrate on one thing and the ability to
  attend to more than one thing at a time
  "Ideally, each individual would cultivate a
  repertoire of styles of attention, appropriate to
  different situations, and would learn how to
  embed activities and types of attention one
  within another" (Bateson 97).

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Cite every source you use.

• Books
• Videos
• Personal interviews
• Atlases
• Songs
• Websites
• Information archived on websites
• Magazines
• Menus
• Etc.

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Fin