MLA Information

The type of sources I used for my Iran Topic Report was the New York Times website article about Zahra Rahnavard. It talked about Zahra's role in helping her husband run for the presidency of Iran and what she had done for women's rights in Iran.

According to Ms. Knapp's blog, in order to cite your source, you have to follow these steps:

1. Explain where you got the information by incorporating a simple sentence before the excerpt.

Example: Here is the what the 1988 Mission Statement from the Kresge College website at University of California, Santa Cruz, said about the freedom of expression:

2. Use a short signal phrase and quote an important section of the material
Example: According the 1988 Kresge College Mission statement, "insert quotation."

3. Use a signal phrase with a brief explanation as to the reason you are using the quoted material.
Example: According to the Kresge College Mission statement, freedom of expression has its limitations: "insert quotation."

4. Use MLA style citations and a Works Cited page.

Each step explains what to do when you are citing your information for your reports or formal papers.

This information has helped me better understand how I can incorporate outside research for my reports and give credit to them. It compares to the work I do in Library 10 as it involves citing my work and making a Works Cited page.

I think the Library 10 course is pretty easy as I get to do it on a computer without any need to write notes or do complicated paragraphs and whatnot. The handbook provides great information on how to create a works cited page and what to do when you're creating a report and how you can attribute the information you use in your report to the source and using quotes.