MLA+In-text+citations

=How do you cite information from web pages and books in your writing? = 1. **Direct quotations** - When you use the same exact words in your paper as in the original source, it is called a "direct quotation."
 * ==First ask: is it a **direct** OR **indirect** quotation? ==

For example: Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

**→** **Burke** is the author of the quotation and **3** is the page number where the quotation is found.
OR  According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

**→ Folkes** is the author of the quotation and **184** is the page number where the quotation is found**.**
2. **Indirect quotations** - When you paraphrase or put information from an original source in your own words, it is called an "indirect quotation." An indirect quotation must be cited.

For example: Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (Wordsworth 263).

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/03/