User talk:Emmaosmundson/sandbox
Feedback on bibliography edit
Hi, Emmaosmundson! Some feedback on your preliminary bibliography: overall, you show some grasp of MLA citation but need to learn a few details. Titles of books and online magazines should be in italics. MLA no longer requires the place of publication for books, so you can omit that in book citations from now on (until MLA changes its mind, that is!). Double-check whether or not "edition" should be abbreviated to "ed." -- I think the latest edition calls for us to spell out the word? The essay by Hutcheson: is that an article from a scholarly journal? If so, you need to include the publication info as the article appeared in the print journal (this should be on the PDF or in the database entry where you found the article), and also, you can just write "Proquest" instead of the entire legal name. Remember also that you should include the DOI number for sources like articles found in databases. That info should be in the entry and on the PDF as well. If you list a DOI, you don't have to include a URL, which is a plus. I'm a little confused about the Lewis essay. What is that, exactly? I can't tell from the citation that you wrote where it's from, what it is, etc. Check the OWL at Purdue to see if you've formatted this incorrectly, or we can talk about it and troubleshoot together. Thanks and let me know if you have any Qs! Amy E Hughes (talk) 17:04, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Feedback on bibliography (spring 2018) edit
Hi, Emmaosmundson! Some feedback on your preliminary bibliography: this is good overall, but there are still a few details you need to attend to. Remember that all book and journal titles need to be in italics. In a couple of instances, you repeat the "container" twice, and I don't understand why. For example: Buchanan, I. “Epic Theatre.” A Dictionary of Critical Theory, 2010, pp. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. ... that title should be A Dictionary of Critical Theory and I am unclear why you list the title again at the end. It's the same with your entry from The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. You should abbreviate the words "university" and "press" in publishers' names, i.e. U of Michigan P. Online sources need access dates -- see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ And finally, be careful not to leave an extraneous space before colons in titles with subtitles. Happy writing! Amy E Hughes (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)