Ok so I get a quote.. How do I set it up? BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH----------------------- ------------------------------------------ ___________"Quote - quote - quote ___________Quote - quote - quote ___________Quote - quote." (book info) blah------------------------------ ----------------------------------- space between quote and where normally text starts = 1" right? and at the end, how do I cite it for the book. I got a work cited but what do i add after the quote in the parenthesis...
yes you are right. then at the end make a page 12 pt font double spaced. type Works Cited at top and center it...dont bold or anything....then just paste the cite beneath it 1 line
No no no. After doing the quote, what do I write in parenthesis? for example: "quote ---- here." (Book Name;Pg.#) Thats what I did, but it isn't correct.. what shoudl I do?
Ah yes, MLA format. I practically use this on a daily basis. I'm guessing you're in grade 11/12? MLA format is simple. All you need to do is after the quotation, if you get it from a book you would put the last name of the author, than a comma, than the page number where you got the quotation from. (The comma is a teacher preference, some teachers want it there, some don't; but most commonly it is put there.) Example, let's just say, in my case I used a book called 'Lord of the Flies' The author is William Golding. And the quotation is from page 120. "I made up this quote just now." (Golding, 120) Golding = Last name of author 120 = Page # where the quote is from If you need any help on MLA format, feel free to contact me. I recommend checking this website below out though, helped me learn about MLA, it's structure, etc. There are also sample papers on the site as well. Site: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s5.html Hope I helped you out bro. But to be honest with you, MLA format is alot more complex than just this. IF you are using the source for the first time, you need to put a subscript number for the first time you use it, and source it at the bottom of the page. Once you use the source a second time (same source) than you would do what I did above, and than you wouldn't have to source it on the bottom. Reading sample papers really helps to understand the format, it helped me.
10th, close tho. I see, ty sniper.. I'm not gonna do the source at the bottom of the page tho. If she doesnt like it, ---- her. She's a bitch anyhow. Her class blows. To Kill a Mockingbird - a horribly boring book IMO.. explains why we need chapters 9-15 done thursday and i'm still back at chapter 5.. /RANT RANT RANT again, thanks sniper.
If you ever read The Scarlet Letter, you'll think that To Kill a Mockingbird is awesome. I'm reading it now, and its the most boring piece of literature I've ever read, and I actually like reading most of the time.
Lol^... and dunno what a seperate peace is.. I hate reading.. Only books I liked were Halo series, and enders game.. probly cuz they had some actual action and such in it. It doesnt even have to be a lot but so far the most action in this book is running up to a house and touching it. WOOP DE ----IN DOOOOO well they said slut and ****** so far and that was fun cuz they are all like 5 yrs old. xD
Correct Format for Inserting Quotes Small quote which you can incorporate into the sentence: Their Eusa Story originates in the only text from our time that has survived the "universal decay," and is itself merely a scriptural annotation of the legend of St. Eustace based upon a fifteenth-century wall painting of the subject (Wells 84). Interpreting the scripture rather literally, she acts upon the biblical phrase, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," by forcibly removing eyes and teeth from recalcitrant puritans (Winterson 84). Two quotes in one sentence: He uses this example of the churinga to argue that "we set such great store by our archives" because "they put us in contact with pure historicity" (Lévi-Strauss 241 and 242). All one sentence with quote following: Since the historical records of a better time are destroyed, all Smith has left is his almost visceral intuition of a better past: "the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different" (Orwell 50). Large quote (three lines or more) set off from the rest of the text: The Time Traveler, having traveled some eight hundred thousand years into this deteriorating future, waxes poetic about the profound loss to (and of) humanity the waste of a library represents: The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. (Wells 83)
