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PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
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PHS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
MLA-Style Guidelines and Models for Documenting Sources Book
Boutin, Daniel J. The Creators of Heroes. New York: Random House, 1992. Buren, Lauren, Greg Pico, and Sue Rice. The Mountain Has No Limits. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, Inc., 1996. Kafka, Franz. “First Sorrow.” The Complete Works of Franz Kafka.
Trans. Jessie Carlson. Ed. Frank Robinson. Second Ed. Vol. 1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Inc., 1986. 939. Ralfe, Tomas, ed. Places for Safety. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers, 1965. Magazine
Santos, Peter. “Budgets, Finances, and Credit Cards.” Business Week
12 Mar. 1993: 11-15. Newspaper
Welch, Benjamin T. “For Students: Free Advice.” New York Times 21 Dec. 1994,
nat. ed., sec. 2: 5. Encyclopedia or Dictionary
Foley, John. “Shakespeare, William.” Encyclopedia Americana. 1991 ed. “Industrialism.” Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 1998 ed. Journal
Daniels, Brian. “A Republic Torn Apart.” Penn Quarterly 16.2 (1992): 36-39. Interview
Wilkins, Bart. Telephone interview. 26 Mar. 1998. Television Program
“The Making of a Monster.” Masterpiece Theater. Narr. Donald Sutherland. Writ. Eugenie Vink. Dir. Jonathan Ward. PBS. WGBH, Boston. 12 Sept. 1996. Sound
Recording Beethoven, Ludwig van. Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93. CD. New York: Dover, 1993.
Holiday, Billie. The Essence of Billie Holiday. Audiocassette. CBS, 1991.
Video
Recording
Like Water for Chocolate [Como agua para chocolate]. Screenplay by Laura Esquivel.
Dir. Alfonso Arau. Perf. Lumi Cavazos, Marco Lombardi, and Regina Torne.
Miramax, 1993.
E-Mail
Message
To cite electronic mail correspondence, provide the following information: -author’s name -subject line from the posting, in quotation marks -kind of communication (personal e-mail, distribution list, etc.) -date of publication -author’s e-mail address, enclosed in angle brackets
Picard, Suzanne. “Class Schedules.” Personal e-mail.
3 June 1996 <suzie@uml.edu.org>. CD-ROM Periodical Publication with Printed Source or
Analogue
To cite information taken from a CD-ROM, give the following information: -author’s name -article title of printed source or printed analogue, in quotation marks -periodical title of printed source, underlined -date of printed source -inclusive pages -title of database, underlined -CD-ROM -name of vendor or computer service -electronic publication date or date of visit to the source French, Angela. “Chemists Learn Why Vegetables Produce Iron.” New York Times 23 Apr. 1998, late ed.: C1. InfoTrac. CD-ROM. Information Access Company. Dec. 1998. World Wide Web, FTP, Gopher or Telnet Source
To cite files available for viewing/downloading, provide the following information: -author’s name -full title of the document, in quotation marks -date of publication -name of organization sponsoring Web site -date of visit to the source -full address (URL), enclosed with angle brackets Burton, Donald. “A History of Self-Made Millionaires.” 3 Sept. 1992. Prodigy. 25 Mar. 1998 <http://www.ukon.edu/mud/src/psc/html>. Synchronous
Communication ( MUD, IRC, Chat Room) To cite synchronous communications, provide the following information: -name of the speaker -type of communication (group discussion, personal interview) -date of visit to the source -address, enclosed with angle brackets Spence, Douglas. Group Discussion. 15 Jan. 1997 <telnet://nhs.ed.org:8321>. Newsgroup (USENET) Message
To cite information posed by participants in newsgroup discussions, provide the following: -author’s name -subject line from the posting, in quotation marks -date of publication -name of the newsgroup -date of access -author’s e-mail address, enclosed in angle brackets Belideau, Margaret. “New NBA Salaries.” 13 Feb. 1998. Alliance for Sports in America. 3 Dec. 1998 <nba.money.review>. **The speed of change in the electronic world means that particular features for citing Internet and Web sources are constantly evolving. The best way to confirm the accuracy of your citations is to check with one of the following sources used to develop this style sheet: MLA Web site <http://www.mla.org> “Beyond the MLA Handbook” <http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla> MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Modern Language Association A Guide to MLA Documentation by Joseph F. Trimmer Additional Notes: Pages are numbered in the upper right hand corner of the paper in the
format of a header that includes the writer’s last name and a page number:
Picard 14 The MLA font size is 10 or 12 and the style is one acceptable for
publishing (i.e., Times New Roman, Courier
New, Arial). The MLA-style cover page is suggested for major word-processed
assignments at Pelham High School (i.e., reports,
research papers, essays, projects). The following heading is suggested for shorter written assignments at
Pelham High School (i.e., homework, short
answer essays, reaction papers, summaries, rough drafts): Assignment
Name FCA
Specifics
Date MLA-Style Guidelines and Models for
Documenting Sources (11) Betsy Picard (12) Research Writing 501 (14) Mrs. Joy Chute 23 March 1999 Works Cited Boutin,
Daniel J. The Creators of Heroes.
New York: Random House,
1992. Burton,
Donald. “A History of Self-Made
Millionaires.” 3 Sept. 1992.
Prodigy.
25 Mar. 1998 <http://www.ukon.edu/mud/src/psc/html>. French,
Angela. “Chemists Learn Why
Vegetables Produce Iron.” New York Times
23 Apr. 1998, late ed.: C1.
InfoTrac. CD-ROM. Information
Access Company.
Dec. 1998. Holiday,
Billie. The Essence of Billie
Holiday. Audiocassette.
CBS, 1991. “Industrialism.”
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
1998 ed. “The
Making of a Monster.” Masterpiece Theater.
Narr. Donald Sutherland.
Writ. Eugenie Vink. Dir.
Jonathan Ward. PBS.
WGBH, Boston. 12 Sept. 1996. Picard,
Suzanne. “Class Schedules.”
Personal e-mail.
3 June 1996 <suzie@uml.edu.org>. Santos,
Peter. “Budgets, Finances, and
Credit Cards.” Business Week
12 March 1993: 11-15. Welch,
Benjamin T. “For Students:
Free Advice.” New York
Times 21 Dec. 1994, nat. ed., sec. 2: 5. Wilkins,
Bart. Telephone interview.
26 Mar. 1998. Avalanches:
The “White Death” Thesis:
People know that avalanches are very destructive, yet tourists and
communities continue to place their lives at risk in these areas. I.
The area where the avalanche hit was said to be a safe zone. A. Galtuer,
Austria, had 3,000 visitors and 692 residents. B.
The valley had no history of past avalanche problems. II.
The avalanche caused major destruction. A.
The avalanche happened on a 7,900-foot mountain. B.
The average speed of the avalanche was 125-185 m.p.h. C.
Ten feet of new snow had fallen. D.
Buildings were smashed and completely buried under fifteen feet of snow. E.
The low visibility caused by the avalanche hindered the search for
survivors. III.
Avalanche survival involves many precautions. A.
Residents can put up barriers and trees to help prevent damage. B.
Tourists should receive warnings about avalanche risks. C.
Visitors and inhabitants need training in avalanche survival. D.
Scientists have accurate instruments to forewarn the avalanche dangers. Cuban Missile Crisis Leads
to Nuclear War Thesis:
The Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union
to the brink of nuclear war. I.
Many factors contributed to the relationship between the United States
and the
Soviet Union.
A. The United States and
Soviet Union worked together in World War II, but
they later became bitter rivals.
1. The United States fought
to contain Communism, while the Soviets
wanted
to advance it.
2. The United States and the
Soviet Union began competing to have the
world’s
foremost nuclear programs.
B. The Americans endorsed
the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in an attempt to oust
Cuban
dictator Fidel Castro in April 1961.
C. Soviet Prime Minister
Nikita Khrushchev wanted to strengthen the Soviet
Union’s
position as a world superpower. II.
Events during the crisis caused great concerns to all world leaders.
A. President John F. Kennedy
met secretly with his advisors for four days.
1. Their first option was to
set a naval blockade of Cuba.
2. The second option was to
invade Cuba and destroy the sites.
a. This option was
originally selected and scheduled for October.
b. It was canceled after
military officers feared a nuclear
war.
B. The Soviets denied that
missile sites existed and expressed outrage.
C. Kennedy decided to impose
a naval blockade of Cuba on October 22. |
Elizabeth
Strauss, Media Generalist
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