HOW TO DOCUMENT AND CITE WHAT MATTERS IN AMERICA ARTICLES
When we
write an essay in reaction to something we have read, we are required to
provide our readers with the citation (or publication facts) of what we’ve
read. We place this citation at the end of our essay on a Works Cited
page. Please
be sure that the final copy of your essay contains a properly organized
citation for the What Matters in
America article you are writing about.
Below is the general MLA format for What Matters in America citations, including examples using articles from the text book. It also provides information about how to cite words and ideas from the What Matters in America articles when you use that information in your essay.
General MLA End-of-Essay (Works
Cited Page) format for our
anthology: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Name of Article.” What Matters in America. Ed. Gary Goshgarian, 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012. (page numbers of article).
Specific MLA End-of-Essay (Works Cited Page)
Examples Beals, Kate. “Faceless on Facebook.” What
Matters in America. Ed. Gary Goshgarian, 3rd
ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012. (pp. 48-49). Holahan, Catherine. “The Dark Side of Web
Anonymity.” What Matters in America. Ed. Gary Goshgarian,
3rd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012. (pp. 219-221). In-text MLA Citations: Place in
parentheses the page number from which the wording or information
comes. Do NOT use "p" or "pg"
or "pp"
before the in-text citation page number--only the page number. · To identify an
author, place the author's LAST NAME in the parentheses before
the page number with only a space (no comma or any punctuation) between
the author's last name and the page number. If it is clear who the
author is—you used a signal phrase with the author’s name—place only the page
number in parentheses. · When you begin a new
paragraph, re-identify the What Matters in America author (last name
only) when you first cite information in the new paragraph.
Specific MLA in-text Citations Examples (Beals 48) or Beals claims that ". . . . . " (48). (Holahan 220) or According to
Holahan ". . . . . " (220). Example with signal phrase or author tag
According to Holohan, "There are few legal means to compel Web
sites to police message boards"(220). (<Since the signal phrase
makes it clear who the author is, I need not again place the author’s name in
the parentheses—I need provide only the page number(s).
It is unfortunate that "there are few legal
means to compel Web sites to police message boards" (Holohan 220). |