Bibliography+Guide

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=// The New ISL MLA8 Guide for Students and Teachers //= Read it online here media type="custom" key="29006107"


 * ISL MLA Guide for the Visual Arts **

An Introduction to MLA 8th Edition
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The MLA Style Center Helpful tips, hints and advice for formatting your research papers in MLA 8th Edition style.

//Keep track of your sources, organise your research, start your outline, all at the same time! //
Noodletools helps you to create the best MLA8 citations and a Works Cited for each of your projects, and is also a research organiser. Personal accounts are available for all ISL Students and Staff. Just login with your ISLUX email account and password.

=//Writing a Bibliography : the importance of citing your sources //=

For everything you write, you need to cite the material you have used and create a bibliography. Why?
 * to show that you have done good research.
 * to show that your work is based on reliable and intelligent works of other people.
 * to acknowledge the work of another author or creator.
 * to comply with laws on copyright and intellectual property. If you don't cite, you are actually committing a crime.
 * to have the chance to refer back to sources, to check and perhaps use them again (Michel Knaff's idea, ISL student)
 * .......

= //What is Plagiarism? // =
 * ====Copying any portion of someone else's work without citing it.====
 * ====Paraphrasing ideas from a source without citing it.====
 * ====Copying material from a source, and citing the source properly, but leaving out quotation marks or failing to indent properly.====
 * ====Turning in another student's work, with or without that student's knowledge, as your own.====
 * ====Buying or downloading a paper from a research service and offering it as your own. ====

= //Copyright and Fair Use // = ==== Anybody who creates something (a book, music, a film, etc.) becomes the owner of the copyright to that creation. No one else is allowed to use this creation without permission from the author/creator. Copyright is a way of protecting the rights of the creators of great books, wonderful music and awesome films, to name a few. ==== ==== Fair use refers to the accepted use of other people's works, that are copyrighted. Generally, the **//'reproduction of a small part of a text to illustrate a point'//** is accepted in educational institutions. It is quite a vague area, and you should be very careful when reproducing text/music/film or anything else from a source without asking for permission from the author/creator of the work. ====

=//What are the consequences of plagiarism?// =

It is a very serious offence. And very current. Regularly, well-known people like politicians and professors are revealed to have committed plagiarism and lose their job, and respect. Look what happened to these people recently: Pal Schmitt, President of Hungary Shia LeBeouf, Transformers Star [|Jane Goodall, researcher (!) and protector of gorillas]

You may earn a zero mark for the paper, you may fail the whole course or you may even face expulsion from school.

=//How does a student avoid plagiarism?// = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Click here for information on paraphrasing (using someone else's information, but putting it into your own words):
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Always give credit where credit is due. In other words, learn to acknowledge your sources.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Learn to cite your sources **within your text** (parenthetical citation) and **in a bibliography** (in MLA: Works Cited) at the end of the paper.

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 * Citation and formatting is used to briefly mention a source, without having to write the words 'title', 'author', 'publisher', etc.
 * Our school has adopted the **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">MLA8 style ** throughout Upper School
 * The official name for a bibliography under MLA is "Works Cited", it's the same as "Bibliography".
 * The Works Cited has to be in alphabetical order, by first word, either the last name of the author, or the title of a book or website. Do NOT categorise your Works Cited by type of source or anything else. Alphabetical. That's it.
 * If you want to add a list of sources you have consulted, but are NOT citing in your essay, you need to list these separately under the heading "Works Consulted".
 * The new MLA 8th Edition requires to add the full URL to your references, at all times. No bitlys even. The full monty.

// Advice 1: Do Not Use the option of Automatic Citation. This is a very unreliable way of citing and will not create the best citations. // = = //Advice 2: Do Not Use MS Word to create citations. Depending on the version of Word, you may be working with an out-of-date MLA version.// = = //Advice 3: MLA formatting does not recognise footnotes. Use In-text Citation (see below).// = = =** //<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In-text Citation // **=

Every source in your Works Cited needs to be referred to in your essay. You do this through 'in-text citation'. In MLA style the in-text citation is simply the name of the author plus page number, in parentheses.

//Example 1: Some say the Library is too noisy at break time (Van Engelen 378).// This citation refers to the book by Van Engelen, on page 378.

Try to vary the way you cite in-text. It will improve the 'flow' of your essay and make it more readable. // Example 2: Van Engelen (378) says the Library is too noisy at break time. //

If you are quoting an author directly, the quote is put in quotation marks, with the citation in brackets after it. // Example 3: "I can't stand the racket in here between 9.30-9.40 am." (Van Engelen 378) //

=<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">MLA with footnotes = <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MLA formatting does not recognise bibliographic footnotes. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Do not use footnotes.

=//<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paraphrasing Pitfalls //= When you put someone else's ideas in your own words, it's called paraphrasing. **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When you paraphrase, you DO need to cite the source. ** You DO!