ENG 111 Persuasive Essay
Book
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example:
Carlson, Kim. Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint. Adams Business, 2009.
Article/Periodical
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages.
Magazine Example:
Cullen, Lisa Takeuchi. "Take Your Planet to Work." Time, 18 June 2007, pp. 37-39.
Newspaper Example:
Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post, 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.
Online Database Article
Author(s),”Article Title.” Title of Publication, Volume, Issue Number, Year of Publication, Page Range, URL, DOI, or permalink.
Journal Article Example:
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96. ProQuest, doi:10.1017/S0018246X06005966.
Website
Author or Editor (if available). Name of Site. Sponsor or Publisher, date of resource creation (if available), URL, DOI or permalink. Date of access (if applicable).
Unknown Author/Editor Example:
"Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview." WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014, www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic- overview.
Known Author/Editor Example:
Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.
Personal Interview
Personal interviews refer to those interviews that you conduct yourself. List the interview by the name of the interviewee. Include the descriptor Personal interview and the date of the interview.
Example:
Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 19 May 2014.
Information obtained from:
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 12 July 2012.
After a quote, paraphrase, or summary an in-text (also called parenthetical) citation is needed. The information needed depends on the sentence structure.
If no information is given in the sentence, the author's name and the page number go in the parentheses.
Example: "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" (Lowrey 1).
If you refer to the author in the sentence, leave their name out of the parentheses
Example: According to Lowrey, "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" (1).
If you are using 2 sources by the same author, use a shortened form of the title in addition to the author's name.
Example: "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" (Lowrey, "Giver" 1).
If the source does not have an author, use a shortened version of the title in the parentheses.
Example: "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" ("Giver" 1).