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How do you properly cite Sparknotes? (MLA format)?
I went to sparknote's help section, and found something telling me to put the author's name and stuff, but I can't find anywhere the author of the sparknotes pages that I'm using.
(their advice http://cgi.sparknotes.com/citing.epl )
clearly the author they're referring to in that isn't the author of the work being analyzed, as Brian Philips didn't write Shakespear's Hamlet...
I need to cite this page:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gulliver/
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
(in response to Rachel Ann's answer...)
Yeah, Sparknotes isn't as hoity toity as a giant book of literary critics, but I've already used 7 sources like that, and honestly Sparknotes has been the best source I have found. My teacher has said we can cite sparknotes for this research paper, so why not? It's got more information than my 6 book sources anyway (although not quite as much as the novel itself I guess haha)
3 Answers
- Rachel AnnLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Spark notes isn't the best for the use of a paper. Anyone can post to it and write pages. So, they could just be mucking around and BSing the whole thing. It is not very professional or literary to use a cite like spark notes to write a paper. This cite does not literary authority in a scholarly setting and if you cite them in your paper your teacher might dock points
I didn't know that your teacher said that it was OK to use spark notes, and I'm sorry that you took my advice so badly. I hope that you know when you get to college that using spark notes in a paper is not going to fly with your professors. Using spark notes for a paper is like using wikipedia, they suck. I think you are smart enough without using a second rate source like spark notes (yes I said second rate) inherently literary critics are better than spark notes, due to the fact many have based their whole lives to study literature. Perhaps you should try to see when someone is trying to help you and not get mad at me. I wasn't criticizing you, I was criticizing your source. Yes, I probably should have given you this website earlier, I am sorry. I just didn't want you to get a bad grade on your paper. Like I said before I did not know that your teacher said you could use such a ridiculous source. How was I to know, you didn't mention that before so don't get mad at me for something I had no way of knowing.
if you are still having troubles citing the page you can go to
- annadianaLv 45 years ago
i think of there's a e book on line you've gotten get admission to to, with the author's final call being "Strunk," if i'm no longer improper. The works stated website isn't puzzling in any respect. you may seem up MLA or English, and you may discover something that way. sturdy success.