Purpose: This assignment will give you practice with MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation style, a system used in the humanities to acknowledge the sources that you borrow from when you do research to help you write a paper.
Instructions
This assignment has two parts.
Part 1: Works Cited
Read Assignment 5: “MLA Documentation Style” in the English 111 Writing Center workbook.
Look over the sets of articles at the back of the workbook. The articles are grouped into three topics: Climate Change, Exercise as Medicine, and Poverty. Having looked at these articles, choose a topic that you think you would like to write about for Assignments 5-10. The topic you choose must be based, however loosely, on any one or more articles in the set. You will eventually use these articles as sources in an essay you will write for Assignments 9 and 10.
Find a fourth and fifth source that are related to your topic. These sources might come from a credible website, a database, a book, a magazine, etc.
Type a Works Cited page for your 5 sources (the 3 from the workbook and the 2 additional ones that you’ve found). Remember to alphabetize and double-space.
Be as careful and detail-oriented as possible.
Part 2: Quoting and Paraphrasing
Choose any three of your five sources and produce one quotation and one paraphrase from each. This will be a total of three quotations and three paraphrases.
As is done in the workbook examples, present the quotation, then a paraphrase of the same material you quoted, and then the Works Cited entry that corresponds.
Make sure that you have used proper phrases of attribution and/or parenthetical material.
Make sure that you have not plagiarized.
Make sure that you have followed the guidelines for this assignment:
Checklist
Part 1: Works Cited
The student’s Works Cited page includes 5 entries: 3 from the back of the Writing Center book and 2 that the student has found on their own.
The entries are in alphabetical order and have “hanging” indents.
Each entry is properly formatted with no more than 2 errors.
The student has provided links to the 2 sources that they have found.
Part 2: Quoting and Paraphrasing
The student has quoted and paraphrased from 3 different sources.
The student has used correct MLA in-text citation format:
In each citation, the student has given the author’s name (or article title if there is no author) in either a phrase of attribution or parenthetically.
The student’s 3 quotations are accurate, and the borrowed words are enclosed in quotation marks.
The student’s 3 paraphrases are accurate and written in their own words.
The student has included parenthetical page citations where necessary.
The student has provided links to any cited sources that are not in the Writing Center book.
-I’LL WRITE ABOUT POVERTY
I UPLODED SAMPLES OF HOW TO WRITE PART 1 AND 2
