Sample Works Cited Page
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers this sample Works Cited page. We will look at it online in class and also look at other sources on the site.
MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
We are starting with the end in our exploration of transitioning into research essay writing, the Works Cited page. I like this approach because you get a tangible feel for how you are technically working the ideas of your sources into your own original ideas.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) gives a good overview of how to approach proper citation for a research essay. Our textbook Writing for Success even refers readers to go to the regularly updated MLA information on Purdue OWL.
We will start here with:
MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
Purdue OWL’s section on the “Argument Paper” includes this guideline for the refutation of the opposing view, which this site calls the “rebuttal section.” We will use this process the debate and think about how to effectively process the ideas that arose into writing.
“The Rebuttal Section” https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/03/
This resource is an index to several resources about writing arguments available on Purdue OWL.
Argument Papers:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/1/
Two sections we will focus on in class are:
Organizing Your Argument and Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion
These two short videos from The Big Think were recorded with Dr. Sharon Zukin, a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center:
“Will Gentrification Ever End?”
and
“The Slippery Ethics of Gentrifying”
An opposing view on gentrification: This opinion piece by Lance Freeman suggests “myths” about gentrification.
“Five Myths about Gentrification” by Lance Freeman Washington Post
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