Dr McConeghy -- Sample MLA Citations from two Web Pages

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my paragraph

First, I put a citation from "Know Your Boat" because I use an exact quotation from that original page.

Second, I put a citation because I used information from the "Boating Safety" webpage. I changed the wording and explained it a little, but I still got the information from the "Boating Safety" page, so I have to do the citation.

Third, I put a citation on the picture since I took it from that page. I didn't draw it myself, did I? A picture or map is like a quotation.

 

In order to be safe on the water, it is important to be an educated boater. All sailboats have "basically the same four components" (Know Your Boat), and a sailor should learn the name and function of each of the various parts such as jib, boom, tiller and rudder (see Figure 1). Although power boats have fewer specialized terms, it is still important to know the safety rules, such as what whistle or horn signals to use when approaching another boat. Collisions at sea are extremely dangerous, so it would be a major mistake to signal two blasts of the horn, meaning "I intend to leave you to starboard" when you actually should have used one blast of the horn, meaning "I intend to leave you to port" (Boating Safety). A safe sailor knows his boat and knows the rules.

Figure 1. Parts of a Sailboat (Know Your Boat).

Works Cited

My Works Cited page will follow the standard MLA format. On that page I will have an entry for each of the two web pages I used. The entries will look like this:

Works Cited

"Boating Safety" accessed 26 April 2003 <http://www.fish4fun.com /boatsoundsignals.htm>

"Know Your Boat" accessed 26 April 2003 <http://www.boat-ed.com/fl/course/p1-

6_knowyoursailboat.htm>