Odessa College Values and Beliefs that Unite Americans Paper
This is the second assignment in Module Three, and is another daily grade. For this assignment, you will write me an email, using your OC email account.In this email, I want you to create an MLA-style Work Cited entry for the online article you will later write your essay about. That is the crucial content of this email. To understand what an "MLA-style Work Cited entry" is, you must first read the item above this in Module Three, which explains MLA research citation. But in brief, MLA citation is a way to formally tell a reader where you got information which does not come from your own direct experience--stuff you "looked up" on the Internet, or elsewhere. MLA citation has two parts to it: First there is a brief, "placeholder" item, coming right after a direct quote or other use of research findings, which is called a parenthetical citation, because it appears in parentheses, like this: ("What Unites Us?"). But that parenthetical citation is not enough, by itself; it points the reader towards what is called a Work Cited entry, which provides much more information about the source, and which comes at the end of your document.This assignment is about the second thing above, the Work Cited entry. You must make one of these for the article assigned in this module; note that I have given you a template of such an entry, right here in these instructions. You can copy it, then replace then general wording with the accurate information for the article, "What Unites Us?". You will build your Work Cited entry in an OC email you will send to me.In doing this, I want you to preface the WC entry with an explanatory sentence such as 'Here below is an MLA-style Work Cited entry for the source I'll be writing my report on.'--some such wording as that. However, please realize that the Work Cited entry you provide MUST scrupulously follow MLA format as I give it to you in this module. If someone just tries to "wing it" on this, or if for any other reason the WC entry you build is not even close to correct MLA format for the type source you have chosen, then that email will earn a failing grade. In other words, the WC entry is the main thing I am grading here. The reason I am emphasizing this is because some students, perhaps because of reasons having to do with rushing, fail to adhere to MLA format. Please avoid that mindset, or at the very least, realize that it carries pretty stiff consequences.I will also penalize any entry which is done using automated citation software which builds your entry for you. You must learn to do this yourself! You should also not take the shortcut of simply using a supposedly MLA-formatted Work Cited entry which your source itself gives you. What I want will almost certainly differ.So to do the correct MLA-style WC entry, you should follow the steps below:First you must know what type of source you have found. The article I have assigned is a link in a website. This is a very important distinction. Different types of sources call for very different Work Cited entries, with different information given in each type entry.To make this assignment as simple as possible, note that below these instructions, I have provided a very general template for you to use. You will simply replace each item in the generally-worded template with the needed wording, while keeping the already-supplied capitalization, punctuation, quote marks, italics, etc.For example, instead of the actual title of your assigned article, it simply says "Title of the Article?" You will replace that general wording with the actual title of the article, "What Unites Us?"; note that I have already supplied the needed double quotation marks and also the question mark, which is needed for this particular title.So, simply COPY this generally-worded template below, and PASTE it into your OC email to me.Then, you will replace each item in the generally-worded template with the needed specific information. NOTE: The exception to this is the word 'Web.' You will leave that as it is.Be sure to keep the already-supplied punctuation, etc.Please sign your email by typing your full name. Leave some white space between the prefatory sentence and your Work Cited entry, and similarly, leave some white space between your Work Cited entry and your name. Do not make it appear that the prefatory sentence and your name are part of the Work Cited entry, in other words.Here below is the generally-worded MLA-style Work Cited template. Copy this and paste it into your OC email to me, then alter it to include the needed specific information for the assigned article. Be sure and keep the punctuation, etc, as I explained above:"The Article’s Title?" The Title of the Newspaper. The date of the article. Web. The date you accessed the article. <the complete web address of the article, copied from your browser and pasted here>.Please realize that not only must your entry include all the customary items for which type of source it is, but the items are each presented and punctuated in a certain way. I expect your entry to follow all those details. However, typing in an email, the thing that may be very hard to include is the customary reverse indention. So this may be skipped, for now. Also, some email software may not allow italics. If that is the case, you need to tell me so, in order to avoid losing points for the omission of needed italics.