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Principal: Mr. Greg Jadlos
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Phone: 315-265-2000 ext. 809
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29 Leroy Street, Potsdam, New York 13676 Phone: 315-265-2000
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TBA,
High School Librarian
Mrs. Cheryl Morganti, After School Library Aide
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Documentation Using the MLA Style
Potsdam High School uses the MLA style of documentation based on the book:
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. This guide provides
examples of how to cite the most often used kinds of resources and how
to use sources within the text of the report (parenthetical reference).
(Some of the examples used in this guide are from
Writers, Inc.
The Write Source, Great Source Information Group, 2001. and some are real
sources owned by the high school library.)
Parenthetical References
The MLA Style Manual suggest giving credit to your sources in the body
of your research project rather than use footnotes.
After you have paraphased the words or ideas borrowed from a source, put
in parentheses the appropriate information, usually it is the author and
page number of the source:
The Army nurses stationed in the Philippines considered themselves lucky.
(Kuhn 6)
You can use the author of the work as part of your paraphrase and then
just list the page number in parenthese
Kuhn states that the Army nurses stationed in the Philippines considered
themselves lucky. (6)
Place the parenthetical reference where a pause would naturally occur
- usually at the end of the sentence.
Make sure that if you insert a parenthetical reference in the body of
your paper that there is a corresponding citation listed in the Works
Cited at the end of the paper.
When in doubt about what to cite, it is
better to cite.
Some examples:
Source with one author - citing part of the work: (Kuklin 45)
Source with one author - entire work: (Kuklin)
Works Cited
List and Basic Formats