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Check out
the sample assignment
Writing
correctly formatted MLA citations for the works that you use makes
it easy for your reader to find them!
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In
this exercise, you will use fulltext databases to find good articles
on your topic, and then write MLA formatted citations for them.
Back in Chapter 4,
you were introduced to MLA citations,
and got practice writing a citation
for a printed book on your topic.
MLA citation style
for articles includes information about the article
author(s), the article title, the periodical in which it was published,
date of publication, and page numbers.
When you cite resources
you have accessed online, there are additional pieces
of information you have to include -- name of the database and
its publisher, information about the library where you accessed
the database, and the URL. For the two databases you are using
in this exercise, here's that information:
| Academic
Search Elite |
Database
and publisher name (vendor) Academic
Search Elite. EBSCO Publishing.
Name
and location of library providing access to the database
Cabrillo College Library, Aptos, CA
URL
of the main homepage of the database http://www.epnet.com/ |
| ProQuest
Newspapers |
Database
and publisher name (vendor) ProQuest Newspapers.
ProQuest
Name and location of Library providing access to
the database Cabrillo College Library, Aptos, CA
URL
of the main homepage of the database http://proquest.umi.com |
Examples of MLA formatted
citations for periodicals (taken from Cabrillo College Library's
Citation Guide -- MLA Style)
Journal
and Magazine Articles
This is the pattern to use:
Here's
an actual citation following that pattern:
Newspaper
articles
This is the pattern to use:
Here's
an actual citation following that pattern:
Here's your
exercise
1. Use Academic
Search Elite to identify 2 good articles on your topic.
[Want to go back to review how to use Academic Search Elite? Click
here.]
2. Use ProQuest Newspapers
to identify 2 good articles on your topic. To get to ProQuest
Newspapers (which includes articles from The New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian
Science Monitor):
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click on Fulltext
Articles
- Click on National
Newspaper Articles (ProQuest)
- Select
Advanced Search
Tell us what
you found!
- Start a
Word document (or some other word processing program)
- Put your name
at the top, and your Library 10 Section number
- Title it: Fulltext
Periodical Articles
- Give a brief
description of your topic -- broad topic, how you've
narrowed it down
- Write complete
MLA formatted citations for 2 magazine or journal articles,
and MLA formatted citations for 1 or 2 newspaper articles on
your topic
- For each,
note
which is a) a magazine article (popular);
or b) a journal article (scholarly);
or c) a newspaper article
- Alphabetize
your list of citations by the authors' last names.
- Email your
word processed document to your instructor as an attachment
Instructor
email address: jashuirm@cabrillo.edu
Check out the sample
assignment!
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