RESEARCH PAPER Review

Bibliography or Works Consulted

Number the entries that you copied/pasted to this page (include the URL)

If you are on a cite which does not have the documentation, you may use Easy Bib, fill in the information, and copy/paste the listing to your Bibliography/Works Consulted page

Outline

Identify the major sections of your paper Organize your notes into paragraphs Make sure each paragraph has a topic sentence Organize the information Use parenthetical citation (“Growing”). Identify

the source for the information  Chronological order – by dates Order of importance – least important to most

important or most important to least important Write a “clincher” to set up the next section

Quoting

Include a signal phrase to set up a quote.

Identify the authoritative source… In his book Title, Adam Smith describes…

Adam Smith, author of Title, identifies…

See Model for more quoting examples…

Pre Test Explanations

Are parenthesis ( ) and brackets [ ] interchangeable? No ( ) are used for parenthetical citations while [ ] are used to indicate an error in the quoted material or to change the wording for correct sentence structure

Use parenthesis at the end of a quote or near information paraphrased/summarized in your own words.

A slash is used to note the change of a quoted line only in metered verse. Yes – if quoting fewer than 4 lines.

A quote of more than four lines should be indented without quotation marks. Yes – the indentation identifies the lines as a quote

The URL alone is the correct form for a Works Cited entry…NO follow the MLA format for the citation

The punctuation for an in-text citation looks like… “There was a brotherhood between people” (Hosseini 11).

Continued

The Works Cited entries should be in numerical order. NO…alphabetical order

The Works Cited entries should be bulleted. NO…alphabetical order

The second line of the Works Cited entry should be indented like a paragraph. YES

The Works Cited page should have a header with the student’s last name and number (last page)

The Works Cited page should be double spaced. YES The entire paper is double spaced.

All Works Cited entries should end in a period. YES The correct citation for Hamlet is (2.3.34-38) which

indicates Act.Sc

Model for brackets

“Engine 674 and a Utah engine were dispatch [sic] to the area but could not located [sic] anything.”

Lester K. Rosenckrance, who headed the investigation, acknowledged that “inaccessible” was a misstatement and should have been amended to “inaccessible by [fire] engine.

Works Cited

• List the sources used in the paper.• Present them in alpha order• Entries should be double spaced• The first line of the entry touches the

left margin and the other lines are indented 5 spaces or 1 tab

• The Works Cited is the last page of you paper and should be numbered as such in the header

Parenthetical Citations

Follow MLA format (Copy/past from Database Cite or Word Process by using the MLA appropriate model

One page document – count the paragraphs

(Smith par. 3).Lifting quoted material from the text

– Identify the person in a signal phrase / use (qtd. In Smith).

Common Mistakes

Italicize titles The Introduction should have the title of the

book & author and the title of the movie/director with the lead actor/s

Avoid 1st and 2nd person pronouns: I, We, Us, You

No contractions Present tense Who vs. That Signal Phrase to set up quotes +

parenthetical