The impact on student-teacher relationship on academic performance

Here’s a condensed version of Profile paper structure and of citations: The impact on student-teacher relationship on academic performance!

Remember that you already have all of the research that you’ll need, so it’s just a matter of arranging the source information in a certain order to make this fir the profile genre–like the profiles you’re reading for homework.

***Student Sample Attached

Set the paper up as follows:
1. Very direct title–be clear about what your point is in your paper
2. No traditional intro!! Open directly with an experience of your topic
3. Use the next paragraphs to discuss your research
4. Write a full three pages of essay
5. Include a separate Works Cited/References page

For your Profile paper, you’ll be using five research sources. The easiest thing to do is use five from your Annotated Bibliography. That way, you already have the long form of the citation for your References/Works Cited page at the end of your paper. Then you’ll only have to figure out how to make the “in-text citations” for the text of the paper.

Normally, MLA style cites Author page # in parentheses at the end of the sentence where you cited that author’s work. That’s easy enough, but many of your sources don’t have a page number because they are websites. In that case, you’d simply list the author at the end of the sentence like this (Jones). The tricky part is that many sites don’t have an author. Use the OWL at Purdue site to help you with this. It’s actually simple:

In-text citations for print sources with no known author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it’s a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it’s a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number if it is available.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . .” (“Impact of Global Warming”).

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title appears in the parenthetical citation, and the full title of the article appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry on the Works Cited page. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. www.climatehotmap.org/. Accessed 23 Mar. 2009.

*****That example is from the OWL site. Here is the link for in-text citations:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html