ONLINE SOURCES
College Databases
Magazine (EBSCOHost)
First, determine if your source is a scholarly journal (published quarterly — it will say Fall, or Winter, and in most cases the pages will continue from issue to the next) or monthly/weekly magazine — both are formatted differently.
Magazine: Scholarly Journal
(published quarterly)
Works Cited Entry
Mitchell, Domhnall. “The Grammar of Ornament: Emily Dickinson’s
Manuscripts and Their Meanings.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 55.2
(2001): 179-204. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 August 2001.
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Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Article.”
Title of Journal. Volume. Number (Year published):
Page numbers covered by article (i.e.
from first page to last page of article).
Name of online database. Medium of
publication – in this case, Web. Date of access.
In-text citation for entry above:
Direct quote:
Domhnall Mitchell notes that “some critics allege that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic edition is effectively to read her in translation.” This suggests that the usual method of reading a poem in a textbook doesn’t always reveal a writer’s intention.
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Magazine
(published monthly/weekly)
Works Cited Entry
Levinson, Marc and Rich Thomas. “One Tax Fits All.” Newsweek 15 January
1996: 36. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 December 2000.
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Title of Magazine. Date of publication (see sample
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online database. Medium of publication – in this case, Web.
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Summary:
A flat tax rate sounds like a good idea, but as Marc Levinson and Rich Thomas argue, it would amount to higher taxes for the working class, and no taxes at all for the leisure class — those people who live off money handed down to them.
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Lexis-Nexis
Works Cited Entry
James, Caryn. “Dysfunction Wears Out Its Welcome.” New York Times
3 December 1995: H1+. Lexis Nexis. Web. 9 August 2004.
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Title of Newspaper Date of publication (see sample
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Date of access.
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After analyzing sitcoms from the early 90s, Caryn James discovers that “they have come to resemble melodrama and soap opera more than they reflect comic versions of real life.” James believes that sitcoms are supposed to reflect “real life” and thus are no longer relevant.
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Proquest (New York Times)
Works Cited Entry
James, Caryn. “Dysfunction Wears Out Its Welcome.” New York Times
3 December 1995: H1+. Proquest. Web. 9 August 2004.
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Title of Newspaper Date of publication (see sample
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Date of access.
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Partial direct quote:
After analyzing sitcoms from the early 90s, Caryn James discovers that “they have come to resemble melodrama and soap opera more than they reflect comic versions of real life.” James believes that sitcoms are supposed to reflect “real life” and thus are no longer relevant.
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SIRS
Works Cited Entry
Elson, John. “The Test That Everyone Fears.” Time 12 Nov. 1995:
93-94. SIRS. Web. 3 December 2000.
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Testing by University of Georgia psychologist Dr. Stuart Katz showed that university students “correctly answered [. . .] 38% of the multiple choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections” (qtd. in Elson). To answer a third of the questions through sheer luck illustrates the need to eliminate multiple choice evaluation.
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Opposing Viewpoints
Bennet, William. “America Faces a Moral Crisis.” Opposing Viewpoints:
American Values. Ed. Jennifer Hurley. 2000. Opposing Viewpoints
Resources Center. Web. 8 March 2004.
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The professed gambler William Bennet – he of Book of Virtues infamy – illustrates this conservative hypocrisy. While he spends millions in gambling, Bennet argues that it is not those of moral rectitude, like himself, that are despoiling his precious America, but others who suffer from “spiritual acedia.” But I have a question for Mr. Bennet: where in the bible does it say “Thou shalt lose millions at the green velvet tables of Las Vegas and Atlantic City”? He is a walking example of the difficulties of accusing others of leading an immoral life: and given his knowledge of the bible, he should know the danger of casting the first stone.
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Gale Literature Resource
Works Cited Entry: (Scholarly Journal)
Kaplan, Steven. “The Undying Certainty of the Narrator in Tim O’Brien’s
The Things they Carried.” Critique 35.4 (1993): 43-52. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 10 August 2005.
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Another connection between the Vietnam War and current events is government lies. As Steven Kaplan notes “Before the United States became militarily involved in defending the sovereignty of South Vietnam, it had to, as one historian recently put it, “invent” [. . .] the political issues at stake there.” Similarly, after weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, our current administration had to “invent” a new rationale for attacking Iraq. And the rationale de jour, promoting democracy to protect American interests, is eerily similar to the failed objective in Southeast Asia.
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JSTOR
Works Cited Entry: (Scholarly Journal)
Goodman, Russell B. “East-West Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century America:
Emerson and Hinduism.” Journal of the History of Ideas 51.4 (1993):
625-645. JSTOR. Web. 28 August 2009.
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While there are differences between Asian philosophies and Transcendentalism, Russell B. Goodman notes “that Emerson’s philosophy, from his college days onward, grew up together with his knowledge of and interest in Hindu philosophical writing” (625 emphasis in original).
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Works Cited Entry
“Redemption.” Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press.
n.d. Web. 28 August 2009.
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The religious connotations of Rowlandson’s use of “redemption” are clear when the definition — “Deliverance from sin and its consequences by the atonement of Jesus Christ” — is understood (“Redemption”)
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Oxford Reference Collection
Works Cited Entry
“Modernism.” The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Ed. Chris Baldick.
Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford
University Press. Web. 6 March 2009.
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Partial direct quote
Modernism’s attempt to shock and disorient readers is connected to their desire to reject “bourgeois values” (“Modernism”).
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Facts on File
Works Cited Entry
Jaycox, Faith. “Settlement Spreads in New England, the Chesapeake,
and the Middle Atlantic: 1630–1642.” The Colonial Era, An Eyewitness
History. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2002. American History
Online. Facts On File. Web. 28 August 2009.
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The combination of economics and religion in early Puritan literature is based on their involvement in the colonial enterprise. As the historian Faith Jaycox points out, “All investors were also colonists. In effect, the company, or corporation (as it was called), and the colony were one and the same.”
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Article from CQ Researcher: MAGAZINE (PDF)
Works Cited Entry
Cooper, Mary H. “Income Inequality.” CQ Researcher. The CQ Researcher Online.
16 March 1997: 337-360. Web. 28 August 2009.
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Work for a living? Feeling a bit poor lately? The link between the two is not difficult to explain when you examine recent pay raises. In 1997, the average worker received a raise of 3 percent. Her CEO? Many earned a 21 percent raise (Cooper 339). Feeling a bit angry now?
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Article from CQ Researcher: Online
Works Cited Entry
Cooper, Mary H. “Income Inequality.” CQ Researcher. The CQ Researcher Online.
16 March 1997. Web. 28 August 2009.
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Work for a living? Feeling a bit poor lately? The link between the two is not difficult to explain when you examine recent pay raises. In 1997, the average worker received a raise of 3 percent. Her CEO? Many earned a 21 percent raise (Cooper). Feeling a bit angry now?
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General Internet Sources
Internet Site
Works Cited Entry
Harlow, Harry. “The Nature of Love.” Classics in the History of Psychology.
York University. n.d. Web. 27 March 2004.
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Summary
At least one study suggests that tactical stimulation is just as important as food for nurture (Harlow).
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Magazine/Newspaper Site
Works Cited Entry
Lopez, Kathryn Jean. “Not Your Father’s Labor Union.” National Review
Online. National Review. 5 August 2004. Web. 8 August 2009.
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Kathyrn Jean Lopez, in an interview with Linda Chavez, at the end of her union bashing screed, states “I know unions are corrupt.” What’s missing in this essay on the influence of union money in political campaigns is any mention of corporate influence on the political process. In the world that Lopez and Chavez inhabit, big, bad unions are scourges out of touch with mainstream America. But if it wasn’t for labor unions, and the combined money they can bring to the political arena, would any politicians pay (no pun intended) attention to labor concerns — in other words, would they even listen to workers? That’s a question that Lopez and her fellow writers at The National Review are not prepared to answer — though they’re more than ready to scare workers away from unions.
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Course Site
Works Cited Entry
Bordelon, David. “Introduction.” Assignments. The Short Story. Ocean County
College. 2007. Web. 31 August 2009.
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The brilliant literary scholar David Bordelon argues that literature is the stuff of life:
After all, literature in general . . . is about love lost or gained, the curious relationship between language and reality, a father shooting his son’s murderer, a man learning to “see” with the help of a blind man; in short, it is about the flotsam and jetsam, vagaries and varieties of daily life. It seems only fair to hold reality up to fiction and see how it compares. (The Short)
This view of literature means that instead of being boring words on a page, literature pulses with the blood of life: if you’re splattered with red droplets, you know you’ve read properly.
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Works Cited Entry
Froriep, Kathleen.”Re: Reading Comprehension Strategies.” Message to
David Bordelon. 22 June 2005. Email.
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Summary
An important part of reading involves prereading, or quickly reviewing a text (Froriep).
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