Research and Bibliography; Course Fall, 1999; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS in English Studies
Documenting Sources
Quotation
  • Purposes: avoid plagiarism, increase credibility by giving evidence or support, for close analysis.
  • Kinds: paraphrase and direct quote (further divided into: separated and integrated)
  • Things to Consider: punctuation; transition, USING ELLIPSES and other alterations of sources
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    Quotation: Examples (separated, but not indented )


    As for the novels, Atwood's debut The Edible Woman locates her vital position in Canadian literature. [transition; Moreover, Atwood contributes to the constructions of Canadian cultural identity.] For Atwood, "literature is a means to cultural and personal self-awareness. ¡K In her opinion, Canada's central reality is the act of survival: Canadian life and culture are decisively shaped by the demands of a harsh environment. Closely related, in Atwood's view, to this defining act of survival is the Canadian search for territorial identity" (21). [who said it?]

    Thus in Atwood's novels, the characters, especially the female protagonists, are the representation of seeking for survival and quest for self-identity.

    Quotation: Examples (1-separated and indented)


    Perhaps it is inevitable for Lennie to kill Curley's wife when he tried to keep her quiet. For Lennie, there is no difference between the puppy and Curley's wife, a human being:
      Lennie went back and looked at the dead girl. The puppy lay close to her. Lennie picked it up. "I'll throw him away," he said. "It's bad enough like it is." (100)
    Therefore, "the novel communicated most intensely of unconventional morality" (Levant 138). For readers, Lennie is not guilty though he killed Curley's wife.
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    Quotation: Examples (2-integrated)


    As Critical points out: "it was inevitable that Humanist interest in the Latin and Greek classics should also produce a new kind of English tragedy¨ (221).

    As a professor of history, Tony tells her students, "history is a construct, ¡Kany point of entry is possible and all the choices are arbitrary"(4).

    Internal Parenthetical Citation

    As Chris Miller points out, "Christopher Marlowe[, who] is of course better known for his plays" (205).
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    Citing Electronic Sources (1): What to include

    1.Author Name , if available.

    2.Title of a poem, . . . (in quotation marks); or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting

    3.Book Title (underlined)

    4.Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.

    5.Publication information for any print version of the source

    6.Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined); or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page

    7.Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)

    8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
     
    9.Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting

    10.For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library is the subscriber--the name and city (and state abbreviation, if necessary) of the library

    11.For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum

    12.The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered

    13.Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site

    14.Date when the researcher accessed the source

    15.Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets)

       


     

     
    ("Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web."  8th par.    
    MLA Style.    Oct 26, 1999.   <http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm>.)
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    Citing Electronic Sources (2): Examples
    For more examples, please go to "Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web."
     
    Author's Last Name, First Name.  "Title of Document." Title of Complete Work [if applicable].  Version or File Number [if applicable].   Document date or date of last revision [if different from access date]. Date of access. <Protocol and address, access path or directories>.

    Example 1: (The 2nd and 3rd line of the following example should be indented five spaces.)

    Walker, Janice & Todd Taylor. ¡§Basic CGOS Style.¡¨ The Columbia Guide to Online Style. Columbia UP, 1998. Oct 26, 1999.  <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html>.
    Omer-Sherman, Ranen. "Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner's Angels in America." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25.4 (Summer 2007): 78-98. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 10 Apr. 2008. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=26023307&amp;lang=zh-tw&site=ehost-live>.

     
    Example 2: Parenthetical Citation

     
    Not wonder Eder asserts that "blues . . .  is fundamentally different from most other popular music that you're likely to find on album or compact disc" (Eder par 4).

    Citation:

    Eder, Bruce.  "Beginner's Guide and History -- How to Listen to the Blues."  108 pars.  15, Nov. <http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=2:47:42|PM&p=amg&sql=J143>. 

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    Work-Cited List
    Works Cited

    Daiches, David.  A Critical history of English Literature.  Rev. ed.  Vol. 1.  London: Mandarin, 1969. 165-345.

    Abrams, M. H, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th ed. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 1993. 395-413.

     

     

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