Cause I suck at it and don't know what's wrong.
The stupid bibliography maker did funky things and I need help.
please and thank you![]()
Cause I suck at it and don't know what's wrong.
The stupid bibliography maker did funky things and I need help.
please and thank you![]()
Ugh sorry, that was always the part I sucked most at. HATED citing my sources. But I know there are lots of online references (ironically) for how to cite properly.
Each college and university usually has a stylebook which says which form of works cited they want used. Ask your professor which one is used at your school, then follow its instructions.
I can't help you without knowing this because there is more than one correct way to do it.
Edit: This site http://www.workscited4u.com/ is supposed to create a bibliography for you according to the MLA standards.
^Yeah, it's MLA, and I used an online thing and it isn't correct. That's why I'm messed up.
I'm messed up at what to underline, what to italic, what to put in quotes. I cited a few books and a few online articles, and the online arcicles need cited in different ways but I'm not sure. I have the book nin front of me, and I'm still not understanding everything. grrr.
I thought I had it right last time and I didn't and lost lots of points and the teacher said i better get it right this time orshe will take off even more points.
I will try that workscited thingy and see what it does. thanks
eta: ok. this works cited website is better than the other 2 i tried. thanks.
How do you cite a adobe pdf thingy? It's the police's budget.
Last edited by Kaylinn; 12-03-2007 at 10:54 PM.
Do you have an English handbook? I'd recommend the Little, Brown Handbook. You can pick up a handbook at any college bookstore.
<----after my first college paper doing it all by hand and taking forever... I've used this site for every single paper since.
It sounds like you already have it under control, but in case you're still confused about something, remember: you never underline and italicize. It's one or the other. Italics are the new underline (like how butt hurt is the new black, apparently), as back in the day you'd have needed a separate typewriter element or a third shift function to italicize.
Just a little bit of nerd history for you.
BTW, if you're still confused, I can PM you the bibliography of one of my old papers for you to model. Let me know.
Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.
One more quick question.
Do yuo start a new page for a new paragraph, if the complete paragraph won't all fit toegther? I mean, you should keep the paragraph together?
Or is it ok to start a new page whenever you run out of room, even if it breaks up a paragraph?
^ That's the one I used first! It's used and recommended by our school. It fucked everything up, lol/
There's no hard and fast rule. Generally, if there's only a line or two at the bottom of a page and the rest of the paragrpah is on the next page, put the whole paragraph on the next page. However, if it's 50/50 between 2 pages, leave it the way it is. Also, if you start a paragraph on a page, and the last line or two creep on to the next page, that is okay. The only thing that looks sort of tacky is the first two lines on one page/ succeeding 30 lines on the next.
Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain.




For what it's worth (and, in case it might still be relevant), a single underline means that the text is in italics. It is a convention originating from people producing documents off of typewriters and telegrams. Double underline means that the text is all in capital letters. Double underline with triple underlined letters means that the triple underlined letters are in normal sized capital letters and the double underlined ones are in a smaller sized captial letters.
A good amount of this stuff shows up in a book that Harvard publishes for law schools, called A Uniform System of Citation. Grammatically, it should be "An", but it's not my book to title.
ED E’ SUBITO SERA
Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera
--Salvatore Quasimodo--
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