Class October 19 - MLA and APA formatting

Other than greeting class with a good morning like always, Mr. Rivers reminded us that our essays about intertextuality are due right around the corner, so be sure to get started soon if you have any questions! Also for homework tonight we have to read the introduction to Ready Player One. Besides the reminder, we got right into the lesson about MLA formatting in our essays. The difference between MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Physiological Association) format are just different preference formatting depending on what we are working on. Most of our work will be in MLA format. The steps for MLA are as follows,

1. Author.
2. Title of Source.
3. Title of container, - where did you access it? Ex. database, netflix.
4. Other contributions,
5. Version,
6. Number,
7. Publisher,
8. Pub Date,
9. Location.

MLA should include a works cited page, with a centered title, in 12pt Times New Roman font. There are two different ways that you can write out your works cited;

1. Film title. Dir. First Name Last Name. Container, Distributer, Year of Release.

2. Dir. First Name (Last Name). Film title. Container, Distributor, Year of Release.

If your story has more than one director than you can cite either as Dirs. Coen and Coen or (Coen and Coen).

Evidence should either be quoted, or paraphrased. Words are quoted, and paraphrasing is used when interpreting words or text. You should cite your best and most useful evidence, not your analysis. Quotes are most effective when they are integrated into the text, as if "you can't even hear the quotes". For quotes with more than one line, you must indent them, and you don't have to use quotation marks (because of the indent). The citation should be after the sentence. The quote should be introduced with a : and when finished, the sentence structure should go back to normal indicating the end. If the quote is a conversation, the names of the people should be capitalized and it should be single spaced instead of double.

With I learned today, I can gather the information about MLA format and use it in the future for my everyday life, especially in my career. I want to go into broadcast journalism and if I end up in the writing and script writing portion of the field, MLA formatting will be very useful to remember.