Whether you are giving a presentation, blogging, posting to an online classroom, or presenting research, you participate in an informed conversation.
You cite your sources, in order to:
Be sure to cite your sources in your:
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An annotated bibliography includes information about a source that is in addition to the basic citation.
For English 161 you will create a summative annotated bibliography.
A summative annotation is a brief (2-3 sentence) summary of a text, whether that text is a piece of music, a poem, a picture, a story or a critical article. The annotation follows the citation.
You will use your blog entries to talk at much greater length about what you think about the text and how it relates to course themes.
Just as you would always provide in-text citations for copied or paraphrased text, you must cite images used in papers and presentations!
MLA 8 recommends you use a brief citation on every slide on which you include quotes, paraphrases, images, etc. and a full citation for each source in the works cited list at the end of a presentation.
Author Langston Hughes [far left] with [left to right:] Charles S. Johnson; E. Franklin Frazier; Rudolph Fisher and Hubert T. Delaney, on the roof of 580 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, on the occasion of a party in Hughes' honor. 1924. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division, New York. New York Public Library Digital Gallery. 1 April 2011.
MLA (Modern Language Association) Style is used in Literature, Arts, and Humanities disciplines. Always consult your assignment or ask your instructor for the correct citation style to use