Professional Documents
Culture Documents
YOU MUST…
Use Rules for Writers (8th edition) to help document sources in your paper.
Or, you can also use Owl Purdue, an online writing lab. Here’s the link:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_f
ormatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
Follow all models/examples of an in-text citation and an entry in the Works
Cited page.
Refer to the following page to look up in-text citations: page 419 (so many
models)
Refer to the following page to look up listing sources in the Works Cited:
pages 419-420 (SO many models!)
**For the Works Cited entry for a selection from your textbook, A
World of Ideas (your PDFs), see page 448 in Rules for Writers, model
#29. In other words, since you have to cite from one of the readings
(whichever prompt you are choosing to write about), follow this model
so your works cited entry is accurate. Remember: Thomas Jefferson
wrote “The Declaration of Independence,” not Lee A. Jacobus.
EXAMPLE: