English 1185.111: Literature and the Laboratory  Tags: english_literature course_guide first_year_writing_seminars writing linguistics_language_literature  

You'll find many references in the course of your research. Make sure you keep track of what you find! The library offers some great tools to help.

Give credit where credit is due. By properly citing the sources you use in your research projects you are both identifying the resources that you used to complete your work and you are formally acknowledging the authors or creators of those resources. 

Please read the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity.

MLA Citation Style

MLA Citation Style (CUL Gateway Help pages)
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about MLA citation style.

MLA Style (MLA's web site)
Provides some FAQ's; however, this site does not provide the full style manual online.

MLA Style Manual. (Olin Reference PN147 G444x 1998; also Uris Reference)

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.)
Olin and Uris Libraries Z253 .M68 2003 (located at the Reference Desks) APA Citation Style

RefWorks is a web-based program that allows you to easily collect, manage, and organize bibliographic references by interfacing with databases. RefWorks also interfaces directly with Word, making it easy to import references and incorporate them into your writing, properly formatted according to the style of your choice. For more information and to sign up for an account: http://www.refworks.cornell.edu

The library offers a weekly drop-in clinic for help in using citation management systems such as RefWorks on Friday afternoons from 2-4pm in the Big Red Barn. Can’t wait until Friday? Send your questions about any aspect of RefWorks/EndNote to: citemanage-l@cornell.edu

The library also offers many workshops on using RefWorks and another citation management program called EndNote. Free classes on both systems are offered to Cornell students and faculty. For more information and to register, visit our workshop web site.

In 2002 Cornell selected Frankenstein, a book that raised important questions on ethics, creativity and the nature of our humanity. Cornell gave over 1,500 free copies of Frankenstein to the Tompkins County Library, to county high schools, to senior citizens centers and to other civic organizations thus beginning the "tradition" of the "town-gown" read.