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MLA Maneuvers

MLA Maneuvers. PUP 2013. Adhere to MLA Format  Construct in-text citations that contain the correct information  Construct works cited pages that contain the necessary source information in the correct order and format. Student Learning Outcomes.

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MLA Maneuvers

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  1. MLA Maneuvers PUP 2013

  2. Adhere to MLA Format  • Construct in-text citations that contain the correct information  • Construct works cited pages that contain the necessary source information in the correct order and format

  3. Student Learning Outcomes IDENTIFY, EVALUATE, INTEGRATE, AND DOCUMENT SOURCES PROPERLY 8.1 Identify and retrieve a variety of relevant sources on a topic 8.2 Evaluate varied and applicable sources to determine weight of authority, credibility, objectivity, currency, and relevancy 8.3 Demonstrate ability to take notes 8.4 Write texts that correctly integrate paraphrased or quoted information from an outside source 8.5 Cite sources using both in-text citations and documentation of sources 8.6 Demonstrate understanding of the ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding plagiarism, intellectual property rights, and academic integrity

  4. ENF 3 • Identify and retrieve possible sources for a given topic • Evaluate the relevance and reliability of a source • Demonstrate note-taking competency • Integrate quoted and paraphrased material into a text, with some accuracy • Identify the meaning and consequences of plagiarism

  5. If you work at the Ford Company, you spend all day making cars. The product you make is a car. What do academics make? Yes, your professors spend time teaching students. But [in higher education], they spend their time researching, thinking up ideas, and writing. When you do not cite their ideas or words, you are stealing. You just popped into their car and drove off with their work. Lisa Swann

  6. Plagiarism in Dissertation Costs German Defense Minister His Job Judy Dempsey March 1, 2011 BERLIN — In a bitter political setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s defense minister resigned Tuesday under pressure over his admission that he had plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation.

  7. “Academic dishonesty is unacceptable. The first time a student submits an assignment demonstrating evidence of academic dishonesty, s/he will receive a grade of “0” on the assignment and have her/his name recorded in a department database. Any student who is found to have committed a second act of academic dishonesty will fail the course in which the instance occurred and may be referred to Ray Jones in the Office of Student Conduct. According to the Student Handbook, academic dishonest includes, but is not limited to, cheating on an assignment by giving, receiving, or soliciting information or using unauthorized materials; obtaining or distributing material purported to be on an upcoming assignment; substituting on an examination for another person; plagiarism; collusion with another person on an assignment; and knowingly furnishing false information to the college. In classes such as this one, the most common form of academic dishonesty is plagiarism. Plagiarism is ANY act wherein you do not properly acknowledge the thoughts or words of another or attempt to present those thoughts as your own. Please note that this includes failing to submit a works cited page with your assignment or even accidently forgetting in-text citation or quotation marks. All work should be independently produced by you for this specific course without outside assistance. Collusion, or working with another person in the preparation or editing of assignments submitted for credit, is also unacceptable, unless such collaboration has been specifically approved in advance by me. In this course, you may only use the academic support services provided by NOVA to get additional assistance on your assignments. If you have questions about what constitutes academic dishonesty, please discuss it with your professor [me] before you submit your assignment.” Adapted from the Division of Languages and Literature policy Annandale Campus

  8. Credibility Gum In My Hair so I'm going to my job interview and I had no idea that there was gum in my hair, until I got home and it turned out that because of that I didnt get the job because the gum was too distracting. —Guest Bobby O'brien Personal Hygiene is a Must! So i work for a law firm and I was going to interview a women about the age of thirty. She had all the right stuff except for she was wearing a turtleneck with a large hole under the armpit. I also appened to see she hadn't shaved in a while, personal hygiene is a must. • —Guest becky glover What NOT to Wear to a factory interview I get people all the time who come in to interview for a factory position wearing a shirt and tie... Sorry! I am looking for factory workers, not a receptionists. I know people should look decent but come on! A tie for a factory position? —Guest HR Rockford

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  10. Adhere to MLA Format  • Construct in-text citations that contain the correct information  • Construct works cited pages that contain the necessary source information in the correct order and format

  11. MLA Practice Mark if italics or quotation marks are needed: • A Story in an Anthology: The Storm • A Book: Where the Wild Things Are • An Article: Education Needs Help Says Obama • A Newspaper: The Washington Post • A Website: Northern Virginia Community College • A Webpage: Mission & Vision -Lisa Swan

  12. Italics or quotation marks? • A Story in an Anthology: • The Storm • “The Storm”

  13. Fix it! You are a copy editor and MLA Master. Edit this article for appropriate capitalizations, italics, and quotation marks! The new york times is the place to go for book reviews. Recently, the times has become the premier newspaper to review children’s literature with an entire book review issue dedicated to the genre once a year. Prior to this decade, children’s literature books were often overlooked as not worthy of proper book reviews. Parents had to go to a bookstore and guess what book would be best for his or her child. One of my favorite articles is the review of the teen novel, the hunger games. John Green wrote the article, scary new world, in 2008. It was also published online on the sunday book review webpage. Don’t forget to look it up if you get a chance! Lisa Swan

  14. Adhere to MLA Format  • Construct in-text citations that contain the correct information  • Construct works cited pages that contain the necessary source information in the correct order and format

  15. In-Text CitationThe Great Scavenger Hunt

  16. Short Direct Quotations3 Lines or Less • Introduce with a signal phrase • Use a comma to join the quotation to the signal phrase • Use quotation marks to signal the beginning and end of quote • Place the parenthetical citation after the quotation marks • Place the period after and outside of the parenthetical citation. • Moser writes, “The death of the girls was shocking enough to Tucson, but the city had to face something more” (574).

  17. Long Direct Quotations4 Lines or More • Introduce with a signal phrase • Use a colon to join the quotation to the signal phrase • Indent the quotation twice–one inch from the margin. Do not give an additional indent to the first line of the quote. • Quotation marks are unnecessary because the indented format tells the reader that the words are taken word-for-word from the source. • Place the period before the parenthetical citation. • Do not end a paragraph on a long quote.

  18. Direct Quotations In the article “The Pied Piper of Tucson,” Moser discusses the varied impacts of the Pied Piper on both city, the community, and the parents of high school students: The death of the girls was shocking enough to Tucson, but the city had to face something more. There were indications that Smitty had boasted about the killings to his teen-age followers long before authorities even began to suspect that murder might have been done. Nobody spoke up. As the trial began for the murder of two of the victims—there will be another trial later for the murder of the third—Tucson’s parents looked closely at their own children, and at the different young man so man so many of their children admired. (575) It is evident that the attacks of the murderer had repercussions throughout the surrounding area.

  19. Follow the Same Guidelines for Summaries and Paraphrases • Introduce the summary or paraphrase with a signal phrase. • Place a parenthetical citation before the end punctuation of the last sentence, to signal the end of the use of the source.

  20. One teacher from Florida faced suspension and a law suit after a parent discovered an online discussion characterizing a student as between a human and orangutan on the evolutionary chain Derogatory remarks made by teachers can have serious professional and legal consequences. (Hibbard). Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook Discussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013

  21. General Guidelines • The identifying source information required in an in-text citation depends • upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page • upon the source medium (e.g. Print, DVD) • The identifying source information must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited list.

  22. Aha! The hanging indent and alphabetical organization of the entries !!!

  23. The identifying source information may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example: Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

  24. Irresponsible posting can result in termination and legal action. Hibbard reports a teacher wrote, “one of my students may be the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.” Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook Dicussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013

  25. One teacher from Florida faced suspension and a law suit after a parent discovered an online discussion characterizing a student as between a human and orangutan on the evolutionary chain Derogatory remarks made by teachers can have serious professional and legal consequences. (Hibbard). Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook Dicussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013

  26. One teacher from Florida faced suspension and a law suit after a parent discovered an online discussion characterizing a student as between a human and orangutan on the evolutionary chain Derogatory remarks made by teachers can have serious professional and legal consequences. (“Manatee County School District “). “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook Dicussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.”The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013

  27. Adhere to MLA Format  • Construct in-text citations that contain the correct information  • Construct works cited pages that contain the necessary source information in the correct order and format

  28. A note on citation generators Software citation generators can be helpful, but only if you know how to cite sources properly in the first place. Think of spell-check. It can’t edit a paper, and it sometimes suggests using semicolons where they don’t belong or replacing a badly misspelled word with one that is completely inappropriate. If you give a citation generator the wrong information, it will produce a bad citation. If you can’t cite sources “by hand” you’ll never be able to check the citations those programs produce. -Adam Mitchell English Adjunct Instructor

  29. (Lunsford 218)

  30. (Lunsford 225)

  31. (Lunsford 229)

  32. Facebook: The New Classroom Commons? by: Harriet L. Schwartz Journal: Chronicle of Higher Education Vol. 56, No. 6. Abstract The article discusses possible uses of the Facebook online social network in academic contexts. Boundaries between personal and professional life on Facebook are discussed. It notes that people in different age groups seem to have different understandings of privacy, with younger people taking a more relaxed approach. It quotes the book "The Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory, Research, and Practice" by Joyce K. Fletcher and Belle Rose Ragins indicating mentoring potential in even the most fleeting of Facebook exchanges. The author notes that she hears from students via Facebook, email, texting and instant messaging and finds that this requires setting of boundaries. She notes that her students respect the boundaries she sets and that she feels that the increased connection is worth it. (October 2009) pp. B12-B13 

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