Please help. URGENT.

[Hsiao]

I need to write a Schaffer Paragraph on Les Miserables for school, but i don't know how to cite the classics i've read online. What am i suppose to put in the parenthesis where i would usually put a page number?

"He stole the bread" ("<HERE>").


Also how would i do this in my bibliography?

Thanks in advance.

[Hsiao]

I need to write a Schaffer Paragraph on Les Miserables for school, but i don't know how to cite the classics i've read online. What am i suppose to put in the parenthesis where i would usually put a page number?

"He stole the bread" ("<HERE>").


Also how would i do this in my bibliography?

Thanks in advance.

[Charles Darnay]

Firstly, sorry if I'm sounding off here, but: what's a Schaffer Paper?


Secondly, cite it as a website: Hugo, Victor. "Les Mis&#233;rables" <u>The Literature Network</u>. (publication date of text). (date you accessed text). <www.online-literature.com>

[ShoutGrace]

Firstly, sorry if I'm sounding off here, but: what's a Schaffer Paper?

Something along these lines, I think.

You're sounding off is forgivable in this instance, Charles, but only because you apolgised.

[kathycf]

I usually use parenthetical citation and then follow either MLA or APA guidelines for listing sources. I would suggest MLA style for you.

Using a parenthetical citation To identify the source of a quotation, paraphrase, or summary, place the author's last name in parentheses after the cited material.

"Parents know in advance, and with near certainty, that they will be addicted to their children" (Landsburg).

In response to Victor Brombert's 1990 MLA presidential address on the "politics of critical language," one correspondent suggests that "some literary scholars envy the scientists their wonderful jargon with its certainty and precision and thus wish to emulate it by creating formidably technical-sounding words of their own" (Mitchell).

Here are the Works Cited entries for these sources:

Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 1 Oct. 1999 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/ Economics.asp>.

Mitchell, Jason P. "PMLA Letter." Home page. 10 May 1997. 1 Nov. 1999 <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/pmla.htm>.

Above quote is taken from the second link here, but check out all of them for useful tips or do a "Google" search on online documentation and/or MLA style. Good luck.


MLA style guide

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html

Columbia University: Columbia guide


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Documenting Sources in the Text
Parenthetical or in-text references to print publications usually include the author's last name and the page number of the reference (humanities styles) or the author's last name, the date of publication, and the page number of the reference (scientific styles). Often, for electronic sources, some or all of these elements may be missing. Thus, parenthetical references to electronic sources will usually include only an author's last name or, if no author's name is available, the file name, and, for scientific styles, the date of publication or the date of access if no publication date is available.

In addition, instead of a bibliography, you would include a page of Works cited and then proceed to list your source (s) in the correct style (following MLA guidelines)

[Charles Darnay]

I have never heard that referred to as a "Schaffer Paper", interesting.

[kathycf]

This person posted several versions of this topic in various threads around the forum. I answered the one in general chat. (there were 2 there, actually)

I just wish folks would read what theads they are posting in before they post. I realize that a request for help can be very urgent, but I find multiple cross posting to be rude. In one forum I belong to it is against forum rules to crosspost.

[kathycf]

BTW: should you ever come back to check on the responses people have made to your request, you might consider NOT crossposting all over the forum.

[Logos]

BTW: should you ever come back to check on the responses people have made to your request, you might consider NOT crossposting all over the forum.

Their two topics are now merged together

Hsiao, it is easier for people who might want to help you if you stick to one topic with the same question.

[kathycf]

Ok, I didn't mean to get testy, and I realize maybe a new person may not know what thread to post in right off. It just seemed to me that because the request was so "urgent" this person thought they would get more help by posting all over the place.

As Logos points out, it is actually easier for folks to help with a request if it is posted in the correct place to start off.