Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Example one: Two ways to paraphrase information from a magazine article with one
author.
The lack of leadership led to the fall of the Roman Empire (Sunny 14).
According to researcher Greg Sunny, the lack of leadership caused the fall of the Roman Empire
(14).
Example two: Two ways to quote information from one of two books by the same author.
The best leaders seem to be found in fiction, for “Beowulf is the penultimate hero type”
Joseph Campbell’s opinion that the best leaders are found in fiction is clear when he writes,
At the end of the journey, “…there is a distinct realization of power” (Campbell, Mann, and York
330).
Although the Roman Empire expired long ago, “[t]he lessons of the Empire continue to affect
Professor Posnock, a Greek and Roman historian at the University of Washington, argues that
Example six: Unsigned (no listed author) encyclopedia article or dictionary entry.
The now famous city of Rome was founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus
(“Romulus”).
In Roman mythology, Romulus is “a son of Mars and founder and first king of Rome…”
(“Romulus”).
The aquaducts of Rome provided the western world with its first real solution for the lack of
Example eight: Citing Internet sites: a newspaper article with an author, a web site without
an author, and a professional web site.
The Roman heroic ideal “…derived from the ideals established in Greek mythology” (Roman
Heroes).
Today, the heroic ideal “…is vested in the heroic definition created by mythology” (National).
Works Cited
Campbell, Joseph, Elaine Mann, and Tom York. Heroes, Myths, and Mythmaking. New York:
Johnson, Janice T. “Caesar and Beowulf.” The Seattle Times 18 Nov. 1999. 14 Mar. 2000
<http://www.seattletimes.com/Rome/Nov.99/caesar.asp>.
National Research Council. New Leadership in the World. 4 Jan. 1989. 12 Mar. 2000
<http://www.natlacadamy.gov/leadership>.
<www.umres.edu/hist/hero>.
<www.eb.com:180>.
“Romulus.” Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English. New York: Simon and
Sunny, Greg. “The Last Stages of Empire.” National Geographic Jan. 1990: 8-16.