Documenting Sources with MLA

You need to include a works cited list and a works consulted list in your personal project report.

The works cited list should include all the sources that you have cited with an in-text citation in your report.

The works consulted list will include all the sources that you looked at but didn't cite in your report. This might include things like YouTube tutorials that you watched but didn't refer to specifically in your report.

Note: refering to sources in your report (with in-text citations), for example to justify the criteria you have used for your product, can provide evidence of how you have used ATLs such as information literacy.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism, whether deliberate or accidental, will lead to serious consequences.

If you copy anything from a website or other source into your process journal or notes, make sure that you clearly identify what you have copied by using "quotation marks" or highlight the text you have copied in a different colour. Note the URLs too, or add the source to MyBib so that you can find it again later when creating your works cited/consulted list. This will help you to avoid accidentally plagiarising.

Cite any images, diagrams, graphs and include captions. Follow copyright law and fair use guidelines if you are reusing images on a public website.

At VSA we use MLA 9 as our citation style. If you are using MyBib, set it to MLA 8 to make sure that the accessed date is added for online sources.

For more information on using MLA, check the VSA Library MLA Guide.