10/19 lesson

Today in class we spoke entirely about citations. This is to help us with our upcoming summer reading essay due next Thursday October 26th at midnight. For that essay we are required to read a book and watch a movie, so obviously citations are going to be needed. There are two formats of citations MLA and APA. MLA is for things like english, religion, and theater. Where as APA is for everything else. The MLA list goes as follows

1 author.

2 title of source.

3 title of container, (where is it from?)

4 other contributions,

5 version,

6 number,

7 publisher,

8 publication date,

9 location.

Here are two formats for citations.

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

Or

Dir. First Name Last Name. Film Title. Container, Distributor, Year of Release.

Examples include

No Country For Old Men. Dirs. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Netflix, Miramax, 2007.

Dir. Andrew Stanton. Wall-e. DVD, Pixar, 2008.  

Quoted citations are the direct words from the source, this is different from paraphrased citations. Paraphrased citations are using your own words to provide a visual experience. When using quotes it is important to integrate them or to make it sound like the quote isn’t even there. There are two ways to cite dialogue. Turnacating is to shorten the dialogue and work it into a paragraph. You can also cite it in a block style.  If a quote is more than four lines it needs to be a block quote, indented, : before quote, parentheses with a name and number after the period. This information is important to our everyday lives because we currently need it for an essay, we could need citations for a college essay depending on what the topic is. This is important to any senior looking into further education because they’ll need it again eventually.