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Romeo and Juliet : MLA Citation and Annotated Bibliographies

A guide to Library resources to assist with your Romeo and Juliet research

English Composition Handbook

Purdue OWL - CITATION EXPERT

How Do I Cite?

The Hun School uses the MLA form of citation. You can consult the English Department's Composition Handbook for a simple explanation. Or click here for a brief, online style guide.  Remember that citations come in two forms:

  • In the body of your paper or letter you need to add a brief citation in parentheses when quoting or using ideas from sources. 
  • Your bibliography (AKA Works Cited Page) will include the full citation in the specified form. See example here, or look at your English Composition Handbook.
  • Quoting and Paraphrasing   OWL has an easy-to-understand explanation of how to paraphrase. Click here!   see OWL's handout to see the difference between paraphrasing, quoting and summarizing.

NOODLE TOOLS

 

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Noodle Tools is an online citation builder and research organizer. It has everything you need to cite, take notes, create your bibliography, and help you with your research! Every Hun student has an account. To activate yours today, please see a librarian.

How to Create an Annotated Bibliography--MLA Style Format

Sample below from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University...

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995.
Lamott's book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer, the chapters in Lamott's book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one's own internal critic.
In the process, Lamott includes writing exercises designed to be both productive and fun. Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one's own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.
Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class. Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate discussion on students' own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students should find Lamott's style both engaging and enjoyable.