working bibliography and mla works cited
You will be asked to meet with your mentor to discuss your sources at the beginning of the research process. You may also be asked as you begin planning and writing your paper what sources you are using and whether or not you have a primary source. Keeping track of the sources you are using during research and those included in your paper is extremely important in ensuring proper documentation.
Working Bibliography
A working bibliography is an MLA formatted document where you keep track of all the sources you have found that could be helpful in completing your research. There are two purposes for a Working Bibliography:
Here is a quick link to a Working Bibliography.
As you locate sources that will benefit your research, use easybib.com to create your Working Bibliography. Please keep in mind the following details when using Easybib:
MLA Works Cited
So what is the difference between a Working Bibliography and a Works Cited? A Working Bibliography is ALL the sources you found that could possibly be used to support your thesis in your paper. A Works Cited is ONLY the sources you actually CITED in the paper.
What does it mean to CITE a source in your paper? That, my friend, can be found on a different tab, but is when you use those trusty statistics, quotes, facts, and notes you found in your reading of your sources in your paper for support. But we will get to that more in depth later in the writing process.
Working Bibliography
A working bibliography is an MLA formatted document where you keep track of all the sources you have found that could be helpful in completing your research. There are two purposes for a Working Bibliography:
- To keep a record of the sources you've already examined and those that you are going to examine.
- To record the publishing details of each source you use or cite so that they can be properly referenced in a Works Cited of your paper.
Here is a quick link to a Working Bibliography.
As you locate sources that will benefit your research, use easybib.com to create your Working Bibliography. Please keep in mind the following details when using Easybib:
- DO NOT USE AUTOCITE! This doesn’t typically include all the information that is required in an MLA citation. Plus it makes your entry look weird on your Works Cited.
- EasyBib is NOT the authority on what is a good/bad source or a primary/secondary source. You need to make this determination based on the information provided in class.
- Do not automatically go to “website” as your choice. From the list provided. Go to whatever your piece is – magazine, newspaper, journal article, etc. If you aren’t sure what it is, ask your mentor or teacher. Send me an email with a link to it and I can help you (or ask me in class).
- Notice there are 3 tabs when you do this that say “in print”, “online” or “online database”. THIS is what you now click on. If you got it from a general website, click “online”. If NCWiseOwl, Proquest, EBSCO, or SIRS click “online database”.
- You do NOT need a URL for any online Database – just put the database
name in where it asks for it, and you’re all set. If it’s a website only, it’s
up to your instructor if he/she requires a URL. For the grad paper, you do NOT want a URL on your Works Cited page, but the URL is extremely helpful on a Working Bibliography when you want to return to the source.
- Fill in all the information that you can and click “Create Citation”
- Copy and paste the citation into a MS Word document. Keep these in alphabetical order, as required. If you do this as you do your research, it will save you a lot of time in the end.
MLA Works Cited
So what is the difference between a Working Bibliography and a Works Cited? A Working Bibliography is ALL the sources you found that could possibly be used to support your thesis in your paper. A Works Cited is ONLY the sources you actually CITED in the paper.
What does it mean to CITE a source in your paper? That, my friend, can be found on a different tab, but is when you use those trusty statistics, quotes, facts, and notes you found in your reading of your sources in your paper for support. But we will get to that more in depth later in the writing process.