Special In-text Citation things to consider with this essay

Today, we cover in-text citation and integration ideas. We will cover the Work Cited page in a class later.

1. Read and follow the guidelines laid out in Rules for Writers
• What type of source are you using? The handbook will give you the special considerations.
2. Be formal. You are not on a first name basis with the authors, so you use either their whole name or only their last name when citing their name. 
3. Don't start body paragraphs with evidence--don't start with a quote from the source. You've immediately put the thought in your reader's head that you lack a clear point. PRE. PRE. PRE. 
4. Start sentences with source material with your own views on the evidence (leading in). 

• Use a powerful verb (go back to the handout/list linked on blog). 

• The subject of sentences should like be a) the author,  b)the narrator  (fiction) or speaker (poetry), c) the same subject or object from the topic sentence, or d) the same subject or object from the thesis.

Poetry

• Use a  /   (forward slash) to indicate a line break.

• example:  The landay "You sold me to an old man, father./ May God destroy your home, I was your daughter," illustrates...

• When dealing with verse poem like "Rape Joke," your in-text citation parentheses should include either author plus lines, or lines, depending on whether you identify the author in the sentences.

• example:  Patric Lockwood's speaker ridicules the idea when she writes, " ... / .../ ..." (lines 44-46). 

• Use quotation marks for the poem title. It's that easy. 

Film

• Your in-text citation should refer to the producer of the film, either in your sentence or in the parentheses.

• Italicize the film title. It's that easy!