Day 15

English 101 Fall 2010 Day 14

Bonus Point opportunity Wednesday at Allied Arts at 7pm. Open Mic Poetry Reading.

Final Drafts Due Monday—Bring essay printed and stapled. Bring copy of your introduction and conclusion.

MLA in text citations—there’s a bit of a tricky part here with the screenplay.
If you are quoting both dialogue and stage directions, use “xxx” to start and end the quote and use ‘xxx’ for dialogue within the quote.

Also, if your ONLY source is the screenplay, you do not need to continue to include Alexie in the parenthesis or the signal phrases (365)

MLA paper format. (404)

Works cited page (406)

1. Works Cited Page
a. Film

i. Smoke Signals
ii. Directed by Chris Eyre
iii. Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
iv. Miramax
v. 1998
vi. DVD

b. Book (383 in Hacker)
i. The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life
ii. Reg Harris and Susan Thompson
iii. Harris Communication
iv. Napa, California
v. Copyright 2005

c. Book
i. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
ii. Sherman Alexie
iii. HarperPerennial
iv. New York, New York
v. 1993

2. Motion Picture (view detail)

Provide the title of the film, the director, the film's distribution company, and the year of release. Between the title and the distributor you may also list other parties that are relevant to your paper or that will help with identification of the film, including screenwriters, actors, producers, etc.

3. Gigli. Screenplay by Martin Brest. Dir. Martin Brest. Perf. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and Christopher Walken. Columbia, 2003. Film.