Works Cited: an Introduction
Citing sources of information in your writing requires 2 steps:
1. In-text citation, including introducing the speaker and citing the page
number (if it is a print source).
o You’ve already learned and practiced this (FTR and LTR).
According to Kristina Jansz in her article “The Scourge of Selfsabotage,” “there’s nothing uncertain about the devastating effects that
self-sabotage can have on your career path, aspirations, performance, and
advancement” (556). In his article “Overcoming Self-Sabotage,” Edward
Selby points out that avoiding situations that cause one anxiety counts as
self-sabotage, and if people do not control their anxiety, it controls them.
2. A Works Cited page, which includes enough publication information for
your readers to go out and find the source for themselves.
Works Cited
Jansz, Kristina. “The Scourge of Self-sabotage.” The Canadian Writer’s
World: Paragraphs and Essays. Edited by Lynne Gaetz, Suneeti
Phadke, and Rhonda Sandberg. Pearson Canada, 2011, pp. 556557.
Selby, Edward. “Overcoming Self-Sabotage.” Psychology Today, 4 May
2010, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/overcoming-self-sabotage.
#1 is a clue…
to the source
to #2, which is a map…
.
The reader should be able to follow
the last name in the text (part of #1)
to the publication information in
the Works Cited list (#2) to the
source out in the real world.
Exercises:
1. Practice 6 (Gaetz, Phadke, and Sandberg 260)
2. Write a Works Cited list for your previous essay. Type it, print it, and
hand it in Thursday. Follow the formatting instructions on page 227-228.
Practice 6 Key
Works Cited
Dobson, Louise. “What’s Your Humor Style?” Psychology Today, August
2006, pp. 74-77.
Finefrock, Maggie. “Humor in the Workplace.” The Learning Project, 9
March 2004, www.thelearningproject.com/humor.htm.
Rowe, Allan J. Creative Intelligence. Pearson Education, 2004.
Winn, Steve. “Offensive Language.” The San Francisco Chronicle, 15 April
2007, p. A1.
Sample Works Cited:
Works Cited
Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate
Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May 2007. Web. 25
May 2009.
Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Coevolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of
Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36.
Print.
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West.
Paramount, 2006. DVD.
Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On
Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives
Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.
Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control
Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34.
Print.
Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.