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By: KRISTINA YEGORYAN

WHAT IS MLA ? MLA stands for Modern Language

Association

MLA format offers:

• guidelines for the overall look of a paper

• makes the paper credible with a method of

documenting sources

Basic Features of MLA Style

• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point size

• Double-Space the whole paper

• All margins should be set to 1 inch

• Single or double spacing after punctuation is acceptable

• Each page should have “header” of last name and page

number at the upper right-hand corner of each page

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Basic Features of MLA Style

• Heading in the left corner of the 1st page:

Student’s Full Name

Instructor’s name

Class name

Date ( Day Month Year ) Ex. 20 November 2012

• The title of the paper is centered

Do not underline, bold, or “quote” the title

• When ending a quote with punctuation, punctuation is inside the

quotation marks

Ex: “ O Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Romeo and Juliet

2.2.36).

IN-TEXT CITATIONSHow to document the resources in the essay

• Quoting Resources: Direct – “word by word” Indirect – paraphrasing the overall ideaIn both cases you should document the source

• Use signal words: According to … As… claims/argues/states…

IN-TEXT CITATIONS

• In-text citations are short: the author’s last name and page number (s)

• In-text citation is in the ( ) followed by the period mark ( ). Ex: “It is truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” (Austin 2).

• If the authors name is mentioned in the sentence, it’s not necessary to put the last name in the citation. Ex: According to Jane Austen “It is truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” (2).

WORKS CITED

Is a list of the references used in the paper and serves as an acknowledgement for the sources.

With the detailed information in the Works Cited list one can find the original source if needed for further research

Works Cited is usually a separate page attached in the end of the essay or document

The sources are listed in the alphabetical order without numbers or bullet- points

WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGY

Twitter is a big part of education and technology. So, MLA released its official usage for citing tweets in academic papers.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is an act of using another person’s words or ideas and attempting to pass them off as your own

Plagiarism is a serious offense and academic dishonesty and could result in suspension or even expulsion.

It is very important to properly cite any source used in composing an essay!

ONLINE CITATION AID

There are many electronic information databases (Gale Info Trac, Lexis Nexis Academic, CQ Researcher) that offer the MLA citation with the article.

There are also websites that help to properly cite the sources with MLA format

www.easybib.com www.citationmachine.net

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