MLA Works Cited Page

Although creating a Works Cited page and using the in-text citations on Microsoft Word is incredibly helpful, it's almost one of those things that is too good to be true in your case. As eighth graders, you're in the beginning stages of learning how to cite information that you use from other sources in your personal writing. You are just learning that you NOT ONLY need to cite direct quotes, but also information that you paraphrase and summarize from sources, whether they be books, articles, web pages, etc. This can be confusing, and I'm afraid that relying on Microsoft Word to do the work for you, is not the best option until you have some experience working with citations.

OWL at Purdue is an online writing lab that has up-to-date information on citing in MLA format. You will use this cite in high school and college, so it is important to take a look at it now.

OWL at Purdue MLA formatting Electronic Sources- Click on the link to look at citations (that will go on the Works Cited page) for electronic sources. We used several of these for this particular paper. When you print the Works Cited page from Microsoft Word, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure that the citations generated by Word appear the way they should according to MLA guidelines listed on this page.

OWL at Purdue MLA in-text citations (the basics)- Click on the link to go over what in-text citations look like and how they are used. Carefully read what to do when the author is unknown. I know many of you had sources without authors (Which is not considered to be typically credible, but is accepted on this particular assignment.), so you need to know how to cite that properly in your paper. The video in the previous post covered this topic as well.