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Language Arts: Media and the Message

Assignment

Have you been inspired by a speech? A person's actions? Maybe the lyrics of a song? Think about what has influenced and inspired you. 

Winston Churchill

The Finest Hour Text (audio link on page)

Cite as website>webpage

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Databases

MLA

8th Edition MLA Site

The Purdue OWL site has excellent help for writing.

Citing for Videos or Clips

Follow this procedure for citing video clips found on websites like YouTube or TED:
Choose Website>Lecture, Speech or Reading. Then click the link in the yellow box that says "online video". This allows you to put in the speaker as the "Presenter" so that the speaker's name appears first in the citation.

Follow this procedure for citing video clips found on a database:
The supplied citations do not use the speaker's name or title of the speech. If you use their citation, then you must "Manually Edit Citation" to add this information.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Mountaintop Speech". Great Speeches, Volume 6: Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, and Edward Kennedy. Modern World History, 2005, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=&itemid=WE53&vid=157398. Accessed 16 Oct. 2018.