Documentation/Works Cited (revised 5/09)

Sample paper with documentation: The following is an example of a sample research paper and Works Cited (with some fabrication) taken from the Harbrace College Handbook, 1984 ed. This demonstrates the look of a final draft with parenthetical documentation.

Big Brothers Propaganda Nineteen Eighty-Four has been called George Orwells most ferocious propaganda (George 87). Orwell was quick to admit that he was a propagandist. In fact, in 1940, during a BBC radio discussion, he said that every artist is a propagandist in the sense that he is trying, directly or indirectly, to impose a vision of life that seems to him desirable (Orwell Essays 41). But Orwell hated political propaganda that deliberately falsifies reality, especially the hypocritical kind used solely for the purpose of keeping totalitarian (doctorial) governments in power. During the 1930s and 1940s he was disgusted by the propaganda machines of dictators like Hitler and Stalin (Colmer 183). It is this variety of propaganda that Orwell satirizes in Nineteen Eighty-Four. This is a novel that presents his vision of life in reverse. As Ralph A. Ranald has observed, Orwells 1984 is about religion reversed, law and government reversed, and above all, language reversed: not simply corrupted, but reversed. In the world of 1984, the mad world which [sic] Orwell sought by his writing to lead me to avoidfor he was a political activist not interested in simple predictionin this world, which I call Orwells anti-universe,[Orwell converts] all positives of western civilization into their negatives. (544-45)
1.) If there is no author, the citation begins with the article title (in quotes) or book title (italicized) followed by the page. 2.) If there are two sources by the same author, the authors name and title abbreviation are used to distinguish the two sources. 3.) Long quotations are indented 10 spaces, and the period appears before the page(s). 4.) If in the text of the paper the author is mentioned, only include the pages in the parenthetical citation.

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Works Cited Colmer, John. Coleridge to Catch 22: Images of Society. New York: St. Martins Press, 1978. Print. George Orwell. World Book online Americas Edition. 2002. World Book, Inc. <http://www.worldbookonline.com/ar?/na/ar/co/ar531800.htm>. Web. 12 Jan. 2003. Orwell, George. The Collected Essays. Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. New York: Harcourt, 1988. Print. Ranald, Ralph A. George Orwell and the Mad World: The Anti-Universe of 1984. South Atlantic Quarterly. May 1980: 41-43. Print.