<p>Is it just me or does the Works Cited page take longer or is harder to do than the 5 page paper itself? I don't mind 5-7, or even 10 pages, but when they say we need to do Works Cited as well, I'm just saying a lot of words under my breath you can't say on TV. I don't know what everyone else thinks, but the format and sophistication of it seems way extreme to me. I say this because this is the part that keeps me from an A or a B. Content and organization of my paper is hardly ever my problem, its the last part of it that has rules most teachers and professors have a hard time remembering. </p>
<p>I think we should just be able to list our sources; a lot less formality to it would do almost everyone a lot of favors.</p>
<p>I don’t think the Works Cited page is all that hard, but I’ve been using MLA since 9th grade. I do use <a href=“Purdue OWL® - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University”>Purdue OWL® - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University; if I get stuck on how to cite something. It gives visuals of proper citation, which really helps me.</p>
<p>It’s important to cite your sources, or otherwise it’s plagiarism. </p>
<p>I recommend going to noodletools.com, and going down to the bottom middle to “Noodletools Express.” When there, you can do each citation by going to the format you want and putting in the correct information. Then the site puts it in the right order and generates the citation for you. Copy/paste it into your document, alphabetize, format, and make sure the font is right. Easy peasy. </p>
<p>Another thing you can do is if you’re using online databases like ScienceDirect or JSTOR is use their citation functions. If you look at the page that links to the article, often it will give you the option to create a citation, which you can either copy/paste or export. I can’t remember which databases it works on, but if you sign up for an account with RefWorks, you can export citations to the site, and it will generate your entire Works Cited page for you. </p>
<p>I also second the Purdue OWL. You can just Google it any time you’re in a pinch to check if your formatting is right. </p>
<p>Basically, you’re really not expected to memorize this stuff. Just use the numerous resources at your fingertips while you’re writing a paper, and as you get more experience with it, writing a paper in proper MLA or APA formatting will get easier.</p>
<p>Works Cited is always the easiest part for me. I just do it as I go, so I don’t have to go back and look through things. Makes it 1000x simpler.</p>
<p>My school made us purchase a book for our English 100 class that taught us everything about citing, so I use that to reference.</p>
<p>I’ve always found easybib.com to be a really easy way to generate those sorts of things.</p>
<p>It’s worse when you try to write actual journal articles for research publications. Every journal has their own formatting style.</p>
<p>“I’ve always found easybib.com to be a really easy way to generate those sorts of things.”</p>
<p>Easybib is incredible. Just make sure you double check it, because I’ve gotten points off for it not being totally perfect before.</p>
<p>It’s extremely easy to do if you just learn how to use the tools to produce it in MS Word. You fill it out as you go along, and it will automatically produce a Works Cited page at the end of your document.</p>
<p>hi my friends
i want to read sciensedirect papers but i cannot .
please guide me.
thanks</p>
<p>Hi dondonakam</p>
<p>Whats ur prob with sciencedirect papers? Do you have a psswrd and username? Some papers not avialble On Line but no message just no access is that ur prob?</p>
<p>The Harvard Referencing app at <a href=“http://www.dairyscience.info/harvard[/url]”>www.dairyscience.info/harvard</a> is pretty good. I also like Easybib.</p>