Editing a Works Cited Page

Your Name

Ms. Allen

ENC 1102

Day Month Year

Editing a Works Cited Page

Instructions: The citations below contain 2 errors each, reflecting 10 of the most common works cited errors I notice in students’ work. You will edit the citations to correct the errors, making changes to the document to reflect the corrections and highlighting any of your changes in yellow like this. Please do not make more than 2 corrections to each citation.

Grading: Each error corrected is worth 10 points; introducing errors into the document by “correcting” things that aren’t wrong or “correcting” incorrectly with result in a loss of 5 points per error introduced into the document. Your score on this assignment will be determined as follows:

[# of corrections made X 10 points] – [# of errors introduced X 5] = _____/ 100.

List of Errors: The following are the errors you should be looking for in this works cited. There is one example of each error with no more than 2 errors per citation.

1. Missing period after author’s name

2. Unnecessary comma in date

3. Incorrect date format

4. Incorrect italics – title of article italicized

5. Incorrect italics – title of source (newspaper, magazine, website, etc.) NOT italicized

6. Incorrect author name format

7. Missing comma in name format

8. Missing period at end of the citation

9. Incorrect capitalization of article title [capitalize all words except articles, prepositions, etc.]

10. Unnecessary publisher info added to citation [usually a duplicate of the source name – this is common error if you autocite on easybib or similar]

Works Cited

Belson Ken. “Playing Tackle Football before 12 Is Tied to Brain Problems Later.” The New York Times, 19 September 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/sports/football/tackle-football-brain-youth.html

Steven Broglio, et al. “Football Player’s Head-Impact Exposure after Limiting of Full-Contact Practices.” Journal of Athletic Training, vol. 51, July 2016, pp. 511-518. Academic Search Complete.

Churchward, Jesse “Getting a College Offer at 10 – The Effects of Early Recruiting on Youth.” USA Today, 20, July 2017, usatodayhss.com/2017/getting-a-college-offer-at-10-the-effects-of-early-recruiting-on-youth.

DiCaro, Julie. “Repetitive Hits, Concussions, and a Mother’s Long Good-bye to Youth Football.” The Washington Post, The Washington Post, September 12, 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/09/12/repetitive-hits-cte-and-my-long-goodbye-to-youth-football/.

McGinity, Michael, et al. “The impacts of tackle football injuries on the American healthcare system with a neurological focus.” Plos One, 7 May 2018, pp. 1-10. Academic Search Complete.