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Plagiarism,  Parenthetical Documentation & Literary Present Tense
Why Cite Sources? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What needs to be cited? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Universally recognized truths  Example:The whole is greater than the part.
Paraphrasing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],Although the source is correctly documented with an MLA in-text citation, the second sentence paraphrases the original source far too closely.
[object Object]
SAMPLE In India, film music   creates a heightened mood   that  accounts for a great deal of the power of Hindi movies , says Nasreen Munni Kabir (41).   The writer has paraphrased too closely by only changing a few words and switching order of phrases. A paraphrase should be in the writer’s own words.
[object Object]
SAMPLE Nasreen Munni Kabir argues that   the film songs disseminate from the movies to pervade several other aspects of Indian life   (41). The writer has paraphrased the source too closely by borrowing the sentence structure of the original and then plugging in synonyms.
ORIGINAL SOURCE For many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and raping.  From pg. 158 of  The Sable Arm , a book by historian Dudley Taylor Cornish
CORRECT SAMPLE Civil War historian  Dudley Taylor Cornish observes that many Southerners were so terrified of slave revolt that the sight of armed black men filled them with fear (158). Correctly paraphrased in writer’s own words and documented with an MLA in-text citation.
MLA Citations
[object Object],Signal phrase names the author of the quotation to follow Page number given in parentheses Period placed after parentheses
[object Object],Signal phrase names the speaker in dialogue Author name and page number given in parentheses
[object Object],Dialogue enclosed in single quotation marks
[object Object],Ellipses used when unnecessary words are cut
Obierika points out the impossibility of the colonialists understanding anything about the Umuofians without speaking their language,  “’How can he when he does not even speak our tongue ? ’” (151).  If a question mark or exclamation point is part of the quotation, leave in the quoted text.
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Block citation is used for four or more typed lines and set off from the text; quotation marks are omitted, double spaced Period before documentation
Poetry ,[object Object],Use a slash (/) to separate two or three lines of poetry in a quote
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Poetry example Block citation is used for three or more lines of poetry, double spaced and set off from the text; quotation marks and slashes (/) are omitted; punctuation is unchanged
[object Object],[object Object],Drama example Block citation is used for four or more lines and set off from the text; quotation marks are omitted Act.Scene.Line
MLA Conventions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Title Page ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object]
Literary Present Tense ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Historical Events ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Present and Past ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Works Cited ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Davis 27 Header  
Works Cited ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Parenthetical Documentation

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  • 8. SAMPLE In India, film music creates a heightened mood that accounts for a great deal of the power of Hindi movies , says Nasreen Munni Kabir (41). The writer has paraphrased too closely by only changing a few words and switching order of phrases. A paraphrase should be in the writer’s own words.
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  • 10. SAMPLE Nasreen Munni Kabir argues that the film songs disseminate from the movies to pervade several other aspects of Indian life (41). The writer has paraphrased the source too closely by borrowing the sentence structure of the original and then plugging in synonyms.
  • 11. ORIGINAL SOURCE For many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and raping. From pg. 158 of The Sable Arm , a book by historian Dudley Taylor Cornish
  • 12. CORRECT SAMPLE Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish observes that many Southerners were so terrified of slave revolt that the sight of armed black men filled them with fear (158). Correctly paraphrased in writer’s own words and documented with an MLA in-text citation.
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  • 18. Obierika points out the impossibility of the colonialists understanding anything about the Umuofians without speaking their language, “’How can he when he does not even speak our tongue ? ’” (151). If a question mark or exclamation point is part of the quotation, leave in the quoted text.
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