1 : an unkind thing to do Hiding the car keys was a dirty trick. 2dirty tricks : secret and dishonest activities that are done to ruin someone's or something's chance of success political dirty tricks.
TEXTS : Introduce the text you're writing about in the beginning of your essay by mentioning the author's full name and the complete title of the work. Titles of books should be underlined or put in italics . (Titles of stories, essays and poems are in quotation marks.) Refer to the text specifically as a novel, story, essay, memoir, or poem, depending on what it is. In subsequent references to the author, use his or her last name.
Write a bibliography for your essay. This is a list of all the works cited in your essay, listed alphabetically by the author's last name. The exact format of the entries in your bibliography is determined by the referencing style.nsert citations into your text. Every time you draw on the work of another source, refer back to it. There are two main ways of doing this. You might insert an in-text citation, which follows the cited text immediately with the name of the author and date of the work. Alternatively, you may use a footnote or endnote.