Thursday, December 13, 2007

Final Drafts and Works Cited page help

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that your FINAL drafts are due tomorrow. They should be typed, double-spaced and in 12 pt Times New Roman font.

Here is some information about your Works Cited page (or really just a bibliography since we did not do actual citations... yet). It is from Purdue University's writing lab. There is also a page in your project packet to help you.

An Entire Web Site

Basic format:
Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].

Example:
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006 http://owl.english.purdue.edu.

Long URLs (Web site addresses)

URLs that won't fit on one line of your Works Cited list should be broken at slashes, when possible.

Some Web sites have unusually long URLs that would be virtually impossible to retype. For example, the Amazon.com URL for customer privacy and security information is http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/551434/104-0801289-6225502,

so we'd need to simplify the citation:

Amazon.com. "Privacy and Security." 22 May 2006 . Path: Help; Privacy & Security.

Here is another link that may help you: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

And one more: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/14/

If you have any questions email me or see me in class tomorrow.

REMEMBER that your Final Draft and Works Cited page are due at the beginning of class.

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