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The Internet can be a wonderful source of original or primary sources. When you are searching the web, determine if it is a credible source by critically applying the CAPOW criteria below:
Currency
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Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that works on expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
Briefly...
Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. |
Noncommercial means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only. |
No Derivative Works means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. |
Share Alike means: |
LSC-Kingwood Library guide to MLA style citation and a sample paper that includes MS Word tool tips to make formatting your paper and works cited easier.
60 STEPS
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The first step is to open a new document in Microsoft Word.
We are going to start my creating the header:
Click Insert
2 Click Page Number
3 Click Top of Page
4 Click Plain Number 3
5 Type your last name to the left of the page number
6
We have to change the font.
Click Home
7 Click the font drop down menu
8 Click Times New Roman
9 Click Page 1 content
10 Doubleclick onto the main area of the page to get out of the header settings
11 We have to set the font for the paper. Click on the font drop-down menu
12 Click Times New Roman
13 Type in your name, first and last and Press Enter
14 Type your instructor's name and Press Enter
15 Type the name of the class and Press Enter
16
Type the date: day, abreviation of the month., and year and Press Enter
17 Click Center Align for the title of your paper
18 Type the title of your paper and Press Enter
19
Change the alignment for the body of your paper:
Click Align Left
20 Start to write you paper!
21
A few more formatting notes:
Highlight all the content and
Click Paragraph...
22 In the spacing section, Click Line spacing: drop-down menu
23 Click Double
24 Click Don't add space between paragraphs of the same ...
25 Click OK
26 Highlight the body of the paper
27 Click Paragraph...
28 In the Indentation section, Click Special drop-down menu
29 Click First line
30 Click OK
31 Click Page 1 content
32 Type in Page 1 content and Press Backspace
33 Press Shift+Backspace
34 Type up your paper now that it is all properly formatted.
35 When you are ready to create your Works Cited page, Click Insert
35b Click
36 Click Pages
37 Click Page Break so that you start on a brand new page without any funny issues of where it starts.
38 Click onto the new Page
39 Click Home
40 Click Center
41 Type Works Cited as the title of this page and Press Enter
42 Now for the sources, Click Align Left
43 Click Paragraph...
44 In the Indentation section, Click Special:
45 Click Hanging
46 Make sure that Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style is checked
47 Click OK
48 Click Page 2
49
Type in the author's name:
Last name, First name.
Punctuation is important!
50
Type "The Title of the Article in Quotation Marks."
Make sure the period goes before the closing quotation mark.
50b Click
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Click Italic
Type in The Name of the Journal that Published the Article,
Comma
and Click Italic to turn the italics off
51b Click
52
Type the volume and issue number:
vol. #, no. #,
Note: Because the abbreviation is happening in the middle of this "run-on sentence" that includes all the publication information, the abbrev. will be lower case unless it is a proper name, like a month.
53 Type the page range and a period.
54
Type the name of the database in Italic
comma,
54b Click
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Paste the permanent link or DOI
Period.
Press Enter
Repeat for all the sources and put them in alphabetical order based on the first letters of each entry.
56
Don't forget to SAVE
Click File Tab
56b Click
57 Click Save
58 Click Browse
59 Type in File name: and Click Save
59b Click
60 That's it. Ask a librarian if you need any help formatting you paper in MLA style.
https://www.iorad.com/player/1651258/How-to-format-your-paper-in-MLA-Style
An Annotated Bibliography is a list of sources, formatted in MLA style, where each source is followed by a paragraph that talks about the source. This paragraph is the "annotation" for that article. The length of the annotation may be specified by your professor. It is typically four to six sentences. It is like a Works Cited page with the addition of annotations (notes) about the source.
Annotations usually consist of a brief description(short summary) and an evaluation of the source. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
NOTE: ***The summary and/or evaluation of the source should be in your original words and not copy and pasted from a publisher or other review source.
Annotated Bibliographies can serve different purposes.
They can:
While an annotation can be very short, they are typically only a short paragraph of three to six sentences (about 150 words).