10/3/16 Mikey Botta

10/3/16

Objectives: effectively integrate written and visual evidence. Extract the most important details of a text.

Today in class, we went over various aspects of citations. There are two styles: MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association). MLA is typically used in english, religion, and philosophy. APA is used in most other areas-- science, math, history, etc. and is thus found more commonly outside of school. For our upcoming essay, we will be using MLA format.
The general format for a text in MLA format is as follows:
Author. Title of Source. Title of container, Other contributors, Version. Number, Publisher, Publication Date, Location.

For a film, the following is the format in MLA style:
Film title. Dir. First Name Last Name. Container, Distributor, Year of Release.

Alternatively, you could place the name of the director first, followed by the film title.

As an example, we created a citation for No Country for Old Men.

No Country for Old Men. Dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Netflix, Paramount Vantage, 2007.

Towards the end of class, we began to discuss ICA, which stands for Integrate, Cite, Analyze.

Introduce: lead up to and prepare the audience to read the evidence. It shows why the evidence to follow is being included. Introductions can be very specific and include lots of details, or be pretty general and basic. 

Cite: to give credit to the source of the evidence. It is at the very end of the sentence, it is tied to all end punctuation.

Analyze: to connect evidence back to the claim.