Week 11 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 11 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 47–56 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (17–20 min total)

• MLA In-Text and Signal Phrases — Renee Poland
• Understanding Core Elements — MLA Citation Guide
• Works Cited entry for a Webpage, MLA 9th edition — 90 Second Student

① Where does the citation go? The in-text citation

Chapter 11, Section “Cite inside the sentence: the author-page form” · Session 1, Segment 1, “The in-text citation” · Remember: the author's name and the page, one space, no comma, and the name appears once.

• MLA In-Text and Signal Phrases — Renee Poland — how a signal phrase and a parenthetical citation share the work of naming a source, so the name appears in one place and the page in the other. This builds on Week 9's work with finding and evaluating sources: every source you chose then now gets a pointer in your sentences. (video, 6 min) (captions: automatic)
• MLA in-text citation with no page number — Amy Whitson — a one-minute answer to the question every web source raises: what to do when there is no page number. Compare it with how the running draft cites the news article. (video, 1 min) (captions: creator)
• MLA Format 9th Edition: In-Text Citations — Library Research Guides — a one-page guide to the author-page form, with signal-phrase and parenthetical examples, two-author citations, and group authors. Check its two-author pattern against (Beland and Murphy 61). (reading, 5–7 min)

② What goes in the entry? The template and the container

Chapter 11, Section “Build the entry from the template of core elements” · Session 1, Segment 2, “The template of core elements and the container” · Remember: fill only the slots your source has, in the fixed order, and name the larger whole that holds it.

• Understanding Core Elements — MLA Citation Guide — a longer walk through all nine core elements, one at a time, with what to do when an element is missing and how a container fits around a source. Read the container part twice. Use it while working through the Week-11 module overview. (reading, 9–12 min)
• How to cite Page / Work on a Website in MLA 9th Edition — Lisa Ausburn — one page on a larger website, built into an entry: the same address-inside-a-site shape as the chapter's Eisenhower model. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
• Works Cited entry for a Webpage, MLA 9th edition — 90 Second Student — a fast build of a web-page entry, element by element. Pause before each element appears and say which slot comes next. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)

③ Does my list look right, and can I trust a generator?

Chapter 11, Section “Format the page and the list” · Session 2, Segment 1, “Formatting the paper and the list” · Remember: Works Cited, alphabetical by first element, a half-inch hanging indent, and every machine-made entry checked twice.

• MLA Formatting in Google Docs (Updated for MLA 9) — Shannon Clark-Reed — a step-by-step setup of a whole paper: double spacing, the header with your last name and page number, the Works Cited page, the hanging indent, and alphabetical order. Treat any generator it mentions as a draft to check. (video, 7 min) (captions: automatic)
• Spotting Errors in Online Citation Machines MLA — Chris Hoelscher — why an entry from a citation machine still has to be checked against the rules, with the kinds of slips these tools make. Set it beside the chapter's two-level audit. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
• MLA Style 9th Edition: Guidelines and Formatting — Library Guides — a checklist-style page for the paper and the list: margins, spacing, the header, the first-line indent, the centered heading, and the hanging indent. Skim it while you set up your own document. (reading, 5–7 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format — Online Writing Lab (OWL) — a short reference page on the list itself: the heading, the hanging indent, alphabetical order, and title case; use it to check a rule while you build this week's entries. (reading, 4–6 min)

Heads-up (links rot): these point to outside sites that occasionally move or rename pages. If a link ever fails, tell your instructor and use the reference above in the meantime.

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