Citations for Texts Supplied in Course

Based on many of the texts that I supply in the course web site, it is important to know WHAT is included in a citation and why.  Note that all of this information is identical to the guides in your handbook or Bedford's guide for works cited pages. However, you will not see a specific example that will match with these texts.  Learn to ADAPT your entries based on the information you know about a source.  I have added publication dates and information for all of the fiction in the Fiction Readings folder. Here are two examples of how to cite texts provided in the course with explanations:

Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning." Harper's Magazine. June 1939. Ed. Randolph Handel. ENC1102 Writing About Literature. Course home page. Spring 2012. Dept. of English, Santa Fe College. Web. 1 April 2012.

Crane, Stephen. "Experiment in Misery." New York Press. 22 April 1894. Ed. Randolph Handel. ENC1102 Writing About Literature. Course home page. Spring 2012. Dept. of English, Santa Fe College. Web. 1 April 2012.

1) This is the main publication entry and should be done according to whatever format is called for with the original publication. In the cases above, you know that the Faulkner short story is from a magazine and the Crane story is from a newspaper, so you provide all of the information that you know. However, you sometimes might only know the publication date, in which case you put down as much as you can and leave the rest. Essentially it is up to the web publisher to supply all relevant publication information from the original. YOUR job is to simply repeat that information in the proper format and then adequately cite the web publisher as part of your source (see 2 below). 

2) This is the information for the web publisher--which in this case is the course web site itself.  If you have used anything from the databases, you will notice a similarity, but with some significant additions. Although some online-based courses might have editors outside of a course, most of the time it is appropriate to use the instructors name for the editor.  Following my name in this citation is a) the name of the course, b) its function, c) its publication date (in this case, the semester that you are taking or accessing the course), d) the department from which the course is given, and finally e) the college where the course is offered.

3) This should be familiar; it is the medium where you accessed the information.  MOST of your entries are likely coming from the web, but if you consulted a book or a had copy of a magazine, then you should be using "Print."  And if you end up revising your Macbeth essay for the revision and included sources from film or a DVD, your medium should reflect that.

4) This too should be familiar; it is the access date, and ANY source coming from online should include this because you are basically informing the reader that on THIS date the information was there, even if it is removed the next day.