Works Consulted—Web sites
· With regard to Web site articles for the Works Consulted page that you will create for this paper, below are the general principles followed by examples.
· Please note, that I want you to create a Works Consulted page, rather than a Works Cited page. Again, the difference is that I want you to list all the sources you read for this paper, even if you do not cite them in the actual paper.
In general:
“Article Title.” McCain-Palin 2008. 2008. 17 Oct. 2008 <Full URL>.
“Article Title.” Obama-Biden. 2008. 17 Oct. 2008 <Full URL>.
2 examples: (not in alphabetical order)
“Strategy for Victory in Iraq.” McCain-Palin 2008. 2008. 17. Oct. 2008
<http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/
fdeb03a7-30b0-4ece-8e34-4c7ea83f11d8.htm>.
“Education.” Obama-Biden. 2008. 17. Oct. 2008 <http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
education/>.
Works Consulted—Databases
· With regard to database articles for the Works Consulted page that you will create for this paper, below are the general principles followed by examples.
In general:
· (1) original publishing information + (2) database information (=) correct
· Last Name, First Name. “Article Title.” Original Publishing Source Original
Publishing Date. Database Name. Name of Sponsoring Institution or Organization. Access date <Truncated URL>.
EXAMPLES: (not in alphabetical order)
“Presidential Patterns relating to This Year’s Election.” USA Today Magazine July 2008.
Academic Search Elite. EBSCOHost. Luzerne County Community College Library. Nanticoke, PA.19 Oct. 2008 <http://web.ebscohost.com>.
Cowell, Alan. “Britain Faces Flurry of Illegal Migrants Using Channel Tunnel.” New
York Times 3 Sept. 2001, late ed. Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Luzerne County Community College Library. Nanticoke, PA.19 Oct. 2008 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.
Schmigliessa, Bob. “Military Policemen of WWII.” Time 30 Sept. 2002. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Luzerne County Community College Library. Nanticoke, PA. 15 Mar. 2005 <http://find.galegroup.com>.
Parenthetical Citations
· You must always CITE borrowed words or ideas, regardless of whether you directly quote or paraphrase.
o These parenthetical citations usually have (author’s last name + page #).
o (Smith 89)
· When you cite articles in the text of your paper, you will include the first item from the Works Consulted page, which is usually the author’s last name.
· In the above examples from the candidates’ Web sites, no author was given on the sites, so the first item is the article title.
· Also, neither article has page numbers, so the parenthetical will have subheadings instead.
· To illustrate:
o (“Strategy” “The Importance of Succeeding”).
o (“Education” “The Problem”).
o The article title (shortened) comes first & then the subheading
· Also, it is good practice to use lead-in expressions for both direct quotes and paraphrases.
o Attribute all ideas to the human author, not to the article.
o The article – an inanimate object -- does not and cannot “say” or “argue.”
o Since the above have no authors, you could write something to the effect:
§ According to the unknown/unnamed/anonymous author of the “Education” article on the Barak Obama Web site, “Direct Quote” (“The Problem”).
· Notice that you do not need to the article title in the parenthetical since you used it in the lead-in. The same would go for the author’s last name if you used it in the lead-in.