Learning to properly cite the words of others is one of the most important skills you will ever learn. You will use this skill throughout high school, in every college class you take, and in professional writing. Using your literature readings this week, write two proper citations. Please study the examples below in bold.
Basic In-Text Citation Rules
In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.
General Guidelines
•The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1.) upon the source medium (e.g. Print, Web, DVD) and (2.) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited (bibliography) page.
•Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.
In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style
MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name 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:
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.
This week you will choose a character from your core literature text and write a one paragraph character analysis. An example is provided for you below:
Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weahterall" shows us the thoughts and feelings of an elderly woman named Mrs. Weatherall. She is a stubborn, lonely woman who feels she is treated like a child because of her age, which in turn adds to her depression. Mrs. Weatherall's first and most obvious characteristic, stubbornness, is best personified by her remarks and speech in the story. Her inflexible personality makes her quite difficult to keep company with. One example of how Porter shows Mrs. Weatherall's stubbornness is when Cornelia has to ask her mother's permission to change the furniture arrangement (Porter 65). However, most of her pig-headedness is shown when she speaks. A prime example of this is when Mrs. Weatherall is urging the doctor to leave and says "Leave a well woman alone. I'll call for you when I want you. . ." (Porter 64).
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In Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (the follow up of his other classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Huckleberry Finn, or Huck for short, is the protagonist and narrator of his life shortly after the events of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer occur. Huck is a good hearted boy who is generally nice to everyone he meets. His best friend is Tom Sawyer, who we meet briefly in Huck's novel (Twain 6). Huck's adventurous nature and yearning for a relaxed lifestyle shows most when he escapes from his civilized life for a more wild one, where he runs to a deserted island to live alone (Twain 34). He is not a judging person, and can see the good in anyone. He becomes best friends with a runaway slave, Jim, which triggers his moral journey that continues throughout the book. Overall, Huck may be naive at times, but with his upbringing and early life with his abusive and alcoholic father and now dead mother, it is truly amazing how he still was such a honestly good person.
Jim is the titular character’s companion in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck and he flee together from The Widow Douglas, making the former-servant the only consistent adult in Huck’s life for some time. Although one could hardly call him wise, the escaped slave could be described as quite sensible when compared to his prepubescent friend. When Huck wishes to go explore a crashed steamboat, Jim declares “I doan’ want to go fool’n ‘long er no wrack. We’s doin’ blame’ well, en we better let blame’ well alone, as de good book says. Like as not dey’s a watchman on dat wrack” (Finn 89). Cautiousness and common sense are some of the best traits to have on an adventure like Huck’s, and although he ignored Jim in the case of the wreck he probably couldn’t have made it through his journey without his friend.
Although Jay Gatsby is the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby, I wouldnt really describe him as "great". He can be more adequately described as a lonly dreamer with a singular focus. Jay Gatsby was born to a poor farming family in North Dakota and learns early in life that being poor is not the way he wants to live. He gets a taste of wealth when he works on a yacht for Dan Cody, an extremely wealthy man. After Cody dies,Gatsby meets and falls in love with the wealthy and popular Daisy Fay while he is stationed in Kentucky while in the army. Daisy's parents don't allow her to marry Gatsby because she is wealthy and he is poor. Because Daisy marries someone else while Gatsby is fighting the war in Europe, he becomes singularly focused on winning her back. He belives that if he makes enough money she will return to him. He then makes a fortune in the illegal sell of alcohol. He spends the rest of his days throwing lavish parties all in attempt to win Daisy back.
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