essay : argument v.summaries MLA format.i have attached all the documents needed for the essay .

Antigone Research Essay Sample Parentheticals

Plays are cited by Act, Scene, and Line numbers (5.3.47-50). If your version of the play does not have Act or Scene designations, you may cite just by line numbers (Lns 35-38). The version in the textbook has scene and line number.

(Sc 3 Ln 47-49).

For outside sources, you cite sources as you would in any situation when a source is summarized, paraphrased, or quoted: author’s last name and page number (Smith 4). No comma, no p, no pg. Remember to save the period for after the parenthetical.

For example…

Society in Ancient Greece was thought to be pre-literate, but inscriptions on domestic items prove otherwise (“Ancient Greek” 4).

When Creon succeeds in usurping the throne, he becomes “drunk with power” (Brown 425).

Antigone’s motives are “suspect … and warrant examination” (Walsh and Jackson 9).

I could use any of those sentences in my Antigone paper.

The first outside source, “Ancient Greek,” was from an online encyclopedia. There was no author, so I have to use an abbreviated form of the title/search term from that encyclopedia article.

The second outside source, Brown, is a regular article from a reference book in the library.

The third outside source, Walsh and Jackson, was an article I found on a library database. This article just happened to have two authors.

See the example of an Antigone works cited page to see how these citations would look on a works cited page.