Transcript The Personal Project Form and Content Refer to these formatting guides for MLA format: • Diana Hacker • The OWL at Purdue • www.easybib.com • Citationmachine.net What your.

The Personal Project
Form and Content
Refer to these formatting guides for MLA
format:
• Diana Hacker
• The OWL at Purdue
• www.easybib.com
• Citationmachine.net
What your Personal Project essay must
have …
Assessment Criterion C:
The personal project contains excellent,
relevant information and resources from
a wide variety of appropriate sources.
The bibliography is complete and well
presented, with clear references to
sources in the body of the text and
appendices, where appropriate.
4
What you turn in:
REPORT:
Title page
Table of Contents
Report
• Define the goal
• Selection of sources
• Application of Information
• Achieving my goal
• Reflecting on my learning
Bibliography/Works cited
• Annotations
Appendices, if appropriate
PROGRESS JOURNAL
PRODUCT (if not in appendices)
Title Page (MLA)
• MLA formatting does
not ask for a separate
Title Page but IB
requires one, so do it
this way.
• Yours will say
Personal Project, not
Extended Essay
• Your word count will
be 3500 or less
Contents Page (MLA)
Your Contents Page
comes after the Title
Page and lists all the
pages :
- Title page
- Essay (naming
sections if
appropriate)
max. 3500 words
- Works Cited
- Appendices, if any
Works Cited (MLA)
• List only those sources
you quote from or
summarize or refer to in
the essay.
• Another example from a
web site: MLA Works
Cited
How do you create
each citation in your
bibliography?
Here are some
examples, but don’t
forget to turn to the
helpful sites given on
the first slide for
more details.
Citing a Book
Author. Book Title. Place:
Publisher, year. The medium
(print) .
Example:
Carré, John le. The Tailor of Panama.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Print.
Citing a Pamphlet
(Just like a book!)
Author. Book Title. Place:
Publisher, year. The medium
(print) .
Example:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dept.
of Jury Commissioner. A Few Facts
about Jury Duty. Boston: Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, 2004. Print
Citing an Interview
Person’s name. Type of interview. Date(s).
Examples:
Akufo, Dautey. Personal interview. 11 Aug.
2005.
Baldacci, David. E-mail interview. 9-12 Sept.
2009.
(“An interview: record, for example, the name,
address and function of the person”)
Citing a Journal Article
Author. “Title of Article.” Journal
Title volume #.issue # (year):
pages. Medium (print).
Example:
Aldrich, Frederick A. “Wyman Reed
Green, American Biologist.” Bios
23.1 (1952): 26-35. Print.
Citing an Online Source
[Everything you cite for a book or magazine
plus…] Database name. Medium (web). Date of
access.
Example:
Berger, James D. and Helmut J. Schmidt.
“Regulation of Macronuclear DNA Content
in Paramecium Tetraurelia.” The Journal of
Cell Biology 76.1 (1978): 116-126. JSTOR.
Web. 20 Nov. 2008.
Citing part of a Web Site
Author. “Title of the section.” Title of the
site. Sponsor of the site, Date of
publication or last update. Medium. Date
of access.
Example:
“Media Giants." Frontline: The Merchants
of Cool. PBS Online, 2001.
Web. 7 Feb. 2005.
Parenthetical (in text) citations (MLA)
In the text of your essay, when you refer to
sources listed on your Works Cited page,
follow these same guidelines :
Diana Hacker guide
OWL at Purdue
When Should You Use Parenthetical
Citations?
• When quoting any words that are not your own
– Quoting means to repeat another source word for
word, using quotation marks ( “quoted words” )
• When summarizing facts and ideas from a source
– Summarizing means to take ideas from a large
passage of another source and condense them,
using your own words
• When paraphrasing a source
– Paraphrasing means to use the ideas from
another source but change the phrasing into your
own words
Purdue University Writing Lab
Keys to Parenthetical
Citations
Readability
• Keep references brief
• Give only information
needed to identify the
source on your Works
Cited page
• Do not repeat
unnecessary information
Purdue University Writing Lab
Parenthetical Citations:
how to handle quotes
Romantic poetry is characterized by the
“spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry
was marked by a “spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings” (263).
Long quotations
(more than 4 lines)
David becomes identified and defined by James Steerforth, a young man
with whom David is acquainted from his days at Salem House. Before
meeting Steerforth, David accepts Steerforth’s name as an authoritative
power:
There was an old door in this playground, on which the boys had
a custom of carving their names. . . . In my dread of the end of
the vacation and their coming back, I could not read a boy’s
name, without inquiring in what tone and with what emphasis he
would read, “Take care of him. He bites.” There was one boy—a
certain J. Steerforth—who cut his name very deep and very
often, who I conceived, would read it in a rather strong voice, and
afterwards pull my hair. (Dickens 68)
For Steerforth, naming becomes an act of possession, as well as
exploitation. Steerforth names David for his fresh look and innocence,
but also uses the name Daisy to exploit David's romantic tendencies
(Dyson 122).
Parenthetical Citations
• More than one author with the same last
name
(W. Wordsworth 23) or (D. Wordsworth 224)
• More than one work by the same author
(Joyce, Portrait 121)or (Joyce, Ulysses 556)
• Different volumes of a multivolume work
(1: 336)
• Citing indirect sources
(Johnson qtd. in Boswell 2:450)
• Two authors say the same thing
(Shelton 11; Bell 98)
Parenthetical Citations
• If the source has no author, then use an
abbreviated version of the title:
Full Title: “California Cigarette Tax Deters
Smokers”
Citation: (“California” A14)
• If the source is only one page in length or has
no pagination:
Source: Dave Poland’s “Hot Button” web
column
Citation: (Poland)
[no page numbers]
Parenthetical (in text) citations (MLA)
Some quick examples
• Author mentioned in sentence
…as Shelton stated (102).
• Name not given in sentence
…it is strongly argued (Shelton 102)…
• Two authors say the same thing
…generally agreed (Shelton 11; Bell 98)
• No author’s name is in the citation
…this evidence is abundant (“Traffic” 4).
How Parenthetical Citations
should look in a paragraph
All the drinks in your home contain water,
and water seems such an everyday substance
but actually “water is one of the most unusual
chemicals known to scientists” (Tocci 11). Even
the variety of ways it flows is challenging to
explain (Gardner 76); and, at the end of the
cooling process, the particles expand instead of
contracting, as demonstrated in Tocci’s
experiment (Tocci 13). The experiment I have
designed will focus on the rate of flow of water
particles.
Illustrations in your text
Any illustration inserted in your text should be
labeled “Figure” (abbreviated to “Fig.”), and
numbered. Use the same margins as your text.
Example:
Fig. 1. Menticore, woodcut from Edward Topsell, The
History of Four-Footed Beasts; rpt. In Konrad Gesner,
Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts (New
York: Dover, 1971) 8.
Although conforming to these
formats may seem tedious, it gives
your essay polish and makes it
easier to assess.
AND it will get a better grade!
Well done!