•Your teacher is grading for it.

•It proves you didn’t make up the stuff.

•It gives credit to the people who put the information together.

•It’s the law.

Use MLA Style• Is there more than one style?

– Yes, there are a number of them. Be sure you’re using the MLA standard.

• Where can I look it up?– We have MLA handbooks in the library.

• Use them in the library. You can’t check them out.

– Helpful websites:• http://web.ebscohost.com/lrc/search?

vid=1&hid=115&sid=9353b964-666f-4687-a1c3-7200d4ddf0a0%40sessionmgr104

• http://www.aresearchguide.com/11guide.html• http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/

citmla.htm• http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/mlagd.php

Annotated Bibliography

• What is a “bibliography?”– a list of citations to books, articles, and

documents actually used in research. (You learned something new from it.)

• What is “annotated?”– Each citation is followed by a brief (usually

about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, called the annotation.

– The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

Book by One Author

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Ex.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

Notice the punctuation and the order of the information. All are important. And don’t forget the period at the end.

Book by Two Authors

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.

Book by three or more authors

What about a book…

• with a corporation as an author?• without an author?• translated?• with an editor instead of an author?• with more than one volume?• anthology or collection?• reference?

You will need to use the websites or the MLA handbook in the library.

Government Publication

Name of Government. Department of that Government. Title of Document. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Ex.

New York State. Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century. The Adirondack Park in the Twenty-First Century. Albany: State of New York, 1990.

Article in a MagazineAuthor(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical

date starting with day: page numbers.

Ex.Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close

Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: L1.

Article in a Newspaper

Electronic Sources – Entire Website

Name of Site. Name of Editor (if given). Date of E-Publishing. Name of Sponsoring Instutition. Date of Access followed by URL.

Ex.

The Cinderella Project. Ed. Michael N. Salda. Dec. 1997. De Grummond Children’s Lit. Research Collection, U of Southern Mississippi. 15 May 2008 <http:www-dept.usm.edu/~engdeprt/ cinderella/cinderella.html>

Databases (like EBSCOHost, neTTreker, Encyclopedia Britannic, etc.)

Author. “Name of Article.” Name of Site. Date of E-Publishing. Name of Database. Name of Sponsoring Institution. Date of Access followed by URL.

Ex.Goya, Francisco. “Dishonesty Among Brothers.”

The Family of Charles IV. 22 May 2006 .EBSCO. Museo del Prado, Madrid. <http://museoprado.mcu.es/ i64a.html.>.