- As you finish your rough drafts, look at the example here to double check your MLA formatting:
- Also, make sure it contains parenthetical documentation and has a works cited page at the end
Once the rough draft is complete AND you have the formatting, citations, and Works Cited page correct, you will submit your rough draft to me on Canvas. Save a copy of your rough draft to your desktop on the laptop and upload the file to Canvas.
IF YOU CANNOT GET IT UPLOADED TO CANVAS, SHARE IT WITH ME VIA WORD ONLINE
- Click the SHARE button
- Enter my email - Richard.Davis@sfisd.org
The rest of this is just repeating the information from last week so you'll have it easily accessible as well.
Below are some links that will help you at least get started with your rough draft and the MLA REQUIREMENTS of the research paper. No, I don’t know why requirements is in all caps, but I’m typing this on my phone so I’m not going to edit it. Anyway, read through them. They’ll help. There will be questions ... be patient. We’ll get them answered.
Basically, for parenthetical documentation within the paper, anytime you quote or use info from a source, YOU MUST (all caps on purpose for emphasis) use parenthetical citations within the paper to attribute credit to the original source - which will be listed on your Works Cited Page.
To cite a Gale database article, you’ll put the author’s last name in parenthesis before the period. For example ...
The proper way to use parenthetical documentation would look like this (Davis).
It could be that the article doesn’t have an author listed .. in that case the title of the work would be in parenthesis. UNLESS .. there is more than one source with the same title .. in which case you would put the name of the publication.
If the author, article, or publication is named in the sentence, there is no further need for parenthetical documentation. For example ...
According to Davis, if you list the author’s name then you don’t have to document it separately.
