Citing Your SourcesAcknowledging that the material is not your own

In Text Citations

According to Diana Hacker, the author of multiple writing handbooks, there are two main ways to use MLA in text citations.

Author named in signal phrase Author named in parenthesis

Use both methods to keep writing fresh

In Text Citations

Author named in a signal phrase.

Social historian Richard Sennett names the tendency to come to terms with difficult experiences a "purification process" whereby "threatening or painful dissonances are warded off to preserve intact a clear and articulated image of oneself and one’s place in the world" (11).

In Text Citations

Author named in parentheses.

The tendency to come to terms with difficult experiences is referred to as a "purification process" whereby "threatening or painful dissonances are warded off to preserve intact a clear and articulated image of oneself and one’s place in the world" (Sennett 11).

In Text Citations for internet sources

As in the previous examples, use the author’s name if it is provided.

What are the two ways to use the author’s name?

In Text Citations for internet sources

What if there isn’t an author listed? Use the title of the webpage or article

In a signal phrase In parentheses

Titles of articles are put in quotation marks

Examples

As of 2001, at least three hundred towns and municipalities had considered legislation regulating use of cell phones while driving ("Lawmakers” ).

According to the “Lawmakers” article on BBC, as of 2001, at least three hundred towns and municipalities had considered legislation regulating use of cell phones while driving .