MLA 9 Workshop

Good Day Class. Welcome to the Fall of 2022 ML nine Workshop.

Our objectives with this workshop is to learn how to format your essay,

learn how to use Ml.

A.

In text citations that are known as parenthetical citations and learn

how to use or to create a works cited page.

So what is M. L. A. Exactly? M. L. A. Means modern language association. M. L. A.

Is used in various humanity disciplines.

A brief refresher on what M. L. A. Format is as it relates to essays.

You want to make sure that your margins are one inch on all sides.

The paper is double spaced throughout, including the headers,

paragraphs and works cited page

essay must be typed in times. New roman size 12 font

here is an example of A. M. L.

A formatted essay as you can tell in the top left hand corner.

You will have your first and last name, you will have your professor's name,

you will have the class name and then the date.

If you look you your paper should have a proper s A title and it should

be centered and you want to make sure

that certain words of that title are capitalized.

Remember your title doesn't necessarily have to be

as long as a sentence or a paragraph.

It can be brief.

It could be a couple of phrases, a couple of words,

but you really need a decent title that reflects the writing to come.

Just don't call your paper research paper or narrative essay or leave the title off.

You need to have a proper title of the paper that

distinguishes your paper from other papers that your instructor may read.

If you look to you have a page number and last name,

your last name needs to be in front of the page number and you need

to have your last name and page number on each potential page in your essay.

So in this case if you had 10 pages it would be gal

one gal to gal three gal four so on and so forth.

Remember also that you invent

paragraphs.

So every time that you start a new paragraph you need a tab or five spaces.

Tab is probably the easiest and the best way

because sometimes when you hit the space bar,

you're not always counting or you're counting too fast or you're counting too slow.

So you don't really get the full five spaces.

I would recommend that you use the tab button when you start new paragraphs.

Plagiarism is a big thing that you want to avoid when writing papers.

What is plagiarism?

It is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as

one's own without giving the proper documentation whether

in text and on the works cited page.

It's another way of saying that you stole old or that you cheated by taking work,

uh phrases quotes from a book, general article, website,

whatever the case may be and you're saying that you said that when you did not

say that I remember most university in college

has policies that this is something that will,

you know, with a first offense at Coastal Pines Technical College,

it will give you a zero on that first assignment that you pledge realized

if you are foolish enough to do it a second time,

you can fail the class and chances are you will fail

the class if you do it two or more times,

you may have to go before a board if you do it on the second

time where they sort of discuss whether they want to suspend you for a semester,

a couple semesters a year,

a couple of years or just sort of bar you from

coming back to this college again because we don't want,

you know,

folks to be cheating and pledge realizing or buying papers online or having people,

you know, contract write papers for them

because it,

it sort of damages the institution's reputation not including your own

because this stuff really will sort of stick to your transcripts.

So if you're going to other places,

they will know that you are guilty of plagiarism as well.

And it, you know,

it's sort of like a slap in the face to your fellow classmates because they

put in the hard work to get whatever grade they got on their particular paper

they didn't have to go to a website and buy a paper.

They didn't have to go and find a friend at another

college and basically rip their paper and copy and paste that.

So just be wary if you get caught.

First time it's going to get a zero the second time you will fail the course

there is a video and I'm not sure if it will pop up on your end.

I know here because I'm recording this

particular presentation and since the video is

a Youtube video and due to copyright reasons with frizzy and I guess youtube,

the video won't actually pop up and let you play it here.

So what I can do if,

if you're watching this or hearing this or clicking

through the slideshow and you cannot watch the video,

please email me and let me know and I will send you the hyperlink to the video so

you can look at the 10 types of pledge

journalism and how to avoid them and correct them.

So again, this is the video and like I said,

due to copyright reasons from Youtube and I guess pretty as well,

you're not going to be able to necessarily click

on this as I'm going through this presentation.

If you again, if you want to watch this, it's a really short,

four minute video or so email me and I can email the link so that

you can see how to avoid these 10 types of plagiarism when writing your papers

at this point,

we're looking at parenthetical citation better known

as in text citation and the purpose

for this is that instructors need to see precisely where you got your information.

They will see the in text citation which will correspond to a citation

on your works cited page and

citing something incorrectly may constitute plagiarism,

which again, as we just talked about,

you do not want to do because you don't want to wreck your G.

P. A. Or your particular grade in your class.

Here are a few examples of how you can integrate quotations,

dread quotations from your sources.

So as you can tell here,

one format that you can kind of use is use the author's last

name and then the page number at the end of your quotation.

So it says romantic poetry is characterized

by the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,

notice

the writer basically blends their particular sentence into the quotation.

There's no comma, there's no, you know, colon,

it just smoothly blends in with the rest of the quotation.

But notice at the end the period isn't after feelings,

it's after our parenthetical citation here, we have the author's last name.

Wordsworth and then we have the page number,

notice there's no comma between the author

Or the page number and you do not have to spell out the

word page or abbreviate the word page with AP or two PCS.

Uh if you do not

have the author's name at the end of the citation and you include

the author's name while leading into your particular quotation as it says here,

the author states the piece of information.

Words were stated that romantic poetry was marked

by a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

Notice the difference. Again, the period is still at the end of our citation.

But because we mentioned words,

words of this author mention Wordsworth leading into the quotation.

It's redundant to mention the author's last name and your parenthetical citation.

So there you just need to use the page number,

let's say that you're dealing with a source that does not have an author.

So what do you do if you look here,

this particular author again uses their own sentences and words leading up

to the quotation notice after the verb has there's no comma,

there's no punctuation mark.

It just goes right into the quotation.

Again,

know the parenthetical citation by the prentice is the period is

at the end of that not at the end of change

notice here too, because we don't know the author.

You want to abbreviate the article title or the website title,

which this looks like it's either an article or a website

and you want to put that title inside quotation marks.

And then you provide the page number. If one is given.

Now, if you're using a novel or something longer,

like a film or something that's longer than a short story

or a article you want to italicize those particular titles.

So what happens when you have a source that does

not have a page number more likely you will see this

with websites and web articles basically here we have a

summary or a paraphrasing because notice there's no quotation marks.

But if you do paraphrase or summarize a particular source,

you're still using that source material because it's not yours,

you still need to get proper credit to that particular author in this case,

here's the author's last name.

Inside the parentheses, we have the period notice, there's no page numbers.

So if there's no page numbers, you don't make them up.

You just put the author's last name.

And again,

usually this is what you deal with when you're dealing with stuff offline or online.

Whether if it's a particular website or maybe a web journal or web article,

do the time here, I do give resources in the actual presentation,

you should be able to click on those over the next

couple of weeks as we get more into the research process.

We will probably look at these a little bit more in detail.

If you need something a little quicker or if they won't let you sort

of click on them and link back up into another website with them,

please email me and I continue these links.

So you can go ahead and have sort of a heads up or get a head start on how to, you know,

really introduce your quotations when you use a colon,

when you use a comma and certain uses of signal words and transitional phrases.

The works cited page I've seen here is generally the last page of your paper,

especially if you're using a, you know, using sources throughout your paper,

basically like a research paper.

If you had a, let's say hypothetically a nine page or a 10 page paper.

Well, if you have a full 10 pages and you're using you know,

multiple sources throughout those 10 pages,

your works cited page will begin on a new page.

It will begin on page 11.

If you have a seven page paper and you have a full seven page paper you know,

filled out with information and you use sources throughout again,

your works cited page will begin on a new page which would be page eight.

And as you can tell, you want to put your sources in alphabetical

alphabetical order by author's last name.

And as you can tell here, you don't want to indent the first line of any citation

on your works cited page.

But if you go lines two or more,

you want to use something that is called hanging and Dent,

which there is a future in Microsoft word that will help you do that.

If you need help with hanging in Dent, please let me know and I can help you with that.

Again,

everything is double space and again you will have your last name and page number.

You probably want to use a

works cited generator, which you can easily find by googling it.

We will talk a little bit more about this as the semester moves along.

But that will probably be the most help

because it basically tells you what you need to put and where to put it.

And it will sort of create that perfect works cited page for you.

You're definitely gonna need to know how to do this.

These types of citations as it relates to the were

excited when you deal with the research paper but also with

when you're dealing with annotated bibs which deals with the

sources that you will be using in your research paper,

which will be talking about soon enough.

Um,

just make sure that you know, you list your authors alphabetically by last name,

the first name and make sure that you just follow the proper format.

And again, if you need any help with this, please let us know.

Thank you for taking your time to view and listen to this. M L.

A fall 2020 to my workshop.

If you need any additional help,

if you need any additional information about how to do it works cited how the site,

please reach out.

Please email me I'm here to help you any way any shape that I can

when it deals with this particular research paper coming up as I've always said,

I can't read minds.

So if you need help with this stuff, please

email me

use smart thinking and talk to your local um,

College librarian.

They can help you with the format and the style as well because

nobody really can afford to pledge allies anything on a particular paper.

And you don't want that first zero to drop you two little letter grades.

And it will, it will drop you at least 20 points, if not more,

depending on where your grade is.

So when in doubt site.

If you don't know how to say it correctly,

please get the help before you have to submit a paper in

and and before I have to grade it because once I grade it, it's too late.

Have a great day.

MLA 9 Workshop

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