Due Now:
Outline for D&C Essay: Complete introduction, body with topic
sentences only, followed with two details, One-sentence "So What?" for
the conclusion. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.
Due Thursday: Poor, poor synthesis
Due Monday: Vocab? High Five! You know the drill.
Due Monday: Compare and Contrast Packet. Take good notes!
- Synth Questions
- Mr. Kline Fights Evil
- Essays in groups
Sorry I am not posting this question on the Synthesis essay post, but for some reason I couldn't reach it, so I was ask my question here: If I am citing an article with two authors, do I cite their names alphabetically? And in my parenthetical citations, which author's last name do I use?
ReplyDeleteWell I know that in our bibliographies when we had two authors, like for the Communist Manifesto for example, which was by Karl Marx and Fredreich Engels, it was noted at Marx, Karl and Fredreich Engels. I'm guessing its by order of importance, or whatever order the names come in in the copyright information... I think...
ReplyDeleteI would say in text would be (Marx) because he is the most important. so..... idk
ReplyDeleteYeah I remembered when we cites Marx and Engels, but this is for a CNN article I am using as a source for my synthesis essay, and I don't know which of the authors would be considered the most important. Thanks though guys!
ReplyDeleteSorry. Maybe if you remember you can ask Mr. Kline tomorrow in class. Hey does anybody know what the evil is that he needs to destroy??
ReplyDelete99.9% of citations with multiple authors are listed in alphabetical order. Marx and Engels are different because, hey, he's Marx.
ReplyDeleteThe rule for parenthetical citations is to use the first word of the citation followed by the page number, if appropriate. Therefore, the parenthetical for Marx and Engels would be (Marx 468).
Thank you. So Just checking this would be the proper way to cite the article (I would add a hanging indent of course):
DeleteHenry, Mary Kay and Christine L. Owens. “Hardworking Americans Should Not Be Living in Poverty.” CNN. 25 Jul 2012. Web. 22 Jan 2012. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/25/
opinion/henry-owens-minimum-wage/index.html
and I would cite it in the body of my essay as (Henry 42).
You've got the names right, but you're missing either a website or publisher (it's hard to tell without italics). Also, you need < > around your link, with a period at the end. Where did you find a page number for your citation?
DeleteCNN is my website, and I don't actually have a page number, that was just for an example. Do I need a page number if the article is not paginated?
DeleteHey for the D&C Essay outlines, is it okay if your introduction takes more than one paragraph? Mine is going to take three I think, but I am not sure if that will be acceptable...
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes!
DeleteI would think it would work... Mine's like three sentences.... Will that be okay??? I am guessing no, but got to ask!
ReplyDeleteI also have one more comment (well okay there may be more), but I was just wondering, if my Gale source has no page number, do I need to have one? My article gives me a full citation at the bottom that does not include page numbers, so I figured that was the correct one.
ReplyDeleteDon't invent page numbers for websites without page numbers.
ReplyDeleteYeah I just didn't include any page numbers.
DeleteOK, So I am trying to use a quote from "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner, and I am trying to establish his ethos, but I have no idea what to say. In my synth paragraph from before, I wrote "essayist and fiction writer," but Mr. Kline said that was not good enough establishment. I am not sure what else to put to solidify it. I tried to looking it up online with no success, the top two descriptions for Eighner coming up as writer and pornographer. DEFINITELY not helpful. Anyone have any thoughts?? Thanks,
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