Works Cited Page
3. WORKS CITED PAGE
After your quote or paraphrase is inserted in your essay, you need to cite the author at the end of your paper so if your readers want to learn more information from that author, they can find the original source and research further. Works Cited page is also required when writing any kind of research paper so that your source material can be verified. This will occur when you advance to English 101.
After quoting or paraphrasing your source, you need to LIST the whole source citation at the end of your essay on a page called Works Cited. The citations at the end are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the author. For your papers 2, 3, and final exam, you will only have one author - Margot Lee Shetterly.
Read the bottom of page 56 to top page 57 on End of Essay Format. (Skip APA style.) The MLA format is what you will be using and that last page of your paper is called: Works Cited.
As the videos earlier noted, if you have more than one author, their names must be listed alphabetically, by last name. That's why their last name is reversed and put first.
For your papers 2, 3, and final exam essay, you will only have one source - Margot Lee Shetterly. [her first name is Margot Lee]
ONE AUTHOR
The citation for a book by one author is always the same:
Author's last name-reversed (comma), first name (period). Title of book (italicized) (period). Ed. if any. Publisher (comma), and publishing date(period). This is David Wilkins citation at end.
Wilkins, David A. Linguistics in Language Teaching. Edward Arnold, 1972.
[Author, last name first] [Name of book in italics] [Publisher] [Date of Publication]
How do you get the PUBLISHER and DATE OF PUBLICATION? Below is a sample of what a title page looks like.
PUBLISHER - open the book to first or second title page - the publisher is usually listed on the bottom of the page. For example, our textbook Great Writing 5 is published by National Geographic Learning. [check the inside cover]
DATE OF PUBLICATION - On the back of the title page is the Copyright page. You will see a circled letter "c" and right next to it will be a date.
Our GW5 publication date is 2020. If there is more than one date, always take the most current date of publication.
There are many ways to list sources in the Works Cited page.
There are various ways. As the video in an earlier page showed, sometimes there are two authors of one book (like our Great Writing 5 textbook), or there may be one author who wrote two books you are using in your paper, or there may be an online source, or an article with no author. You will explore these more in English 101. The point here is to try a couple for practice in ESL 8.
Some titles of books have an " edition." Our Hidden Figures book has an edition - and you must always include that when citing this book:
Hidden Figures. Young Readers' ed.
MLA says, rather than type out "edition", to insert instead the abbreviated form: "ed."
NOTE: All book titles, like Hidden Figures, are always italicized. How to italicize on your computer: Highlight your title, click on the 'italics" icon and make your title appear in italics. Do this with every book and magazine title.
Let's try another one for practice.
Name of book: Language Study in America. 4th edition. Published by Pearson Education. Author is Henry Blake. Published in 2017. Here's the Works Cited:
Blake, Henry. Language Study in America. 4th ed., Pearson Education, 2017.
[author/reversed name] [book title] [# of edition] [publisher] [date published]
Your assignment on quoting, paraphrasing, works cited is on next page.