MLA Format Overview

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Video: How to set up MLA on Google Docs

*This video tells you to use Calibri font, this is incorrect. You MUST use Times New Roman.

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In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR COMMON SOURCES:

Book - (Author Last Name, Page #)

Website - (Author Last Name)

Website with no Author - (Webpage Title)

MORE IN DEPTH INFO IF NEEDED:

With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.

Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).

You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.

Do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

Example:

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming").

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title of the article appears in the parenthetical citation which corresponds to the full name of the article which appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming:

      Early Signs. 1999. http://www.climatehotmap.org/. Accessed 23
      Mar. 2009.

More help on the blog for in-text citations: Here

More information available at: OWL MLA in-text Citations Info

PWP Requirements for Research Essay - Minimum of 2 Direct Quotes.
Please read over the MLA tab on the blog for more information on citing a book.

Works Cited Page Instructions

Purdue OWL

Use this link - PURDUE OWL to search how to cite different artifacts. You can find how to cite interviews, polls, pictures, etc. all here. Make sure you do them correctly.

MLA Works Cited Information/Examples

Poetry Punctuation

Should all poetry lines end with a comma or period?

Some lines of poetry end at a natural point of pause, accompanied by punctuation, such as a period, comma, or semi-colon. These are called “end-stopped" lines. The first and last lines in this first stanza from Mark Doty's poem “The Embrace" are end-stopped:

You weren't well or really ill yet either;
just a little tired, your handsomeness
tinged by grief or anticipation, which brought
to your face a thoughtful, deepening grace.

The other two lines in this stanza—the second and third—are “enjambed." That means one line run right into the next. The line break doesn't occur at a natural pause. Instead, it separates pairs of words that, in prose, would read without a pause.

Poets use these different kinds of lines—end-stopped and enjambed—to create specific effects. In the first stanza of Doty's “The Embrace" the two enjambed lines create a forward motion. Some poets will use several enjambed lines in a row to create even more urgency. Once you get to the end of the sentence and to the end-stopped line, there's a brief release in tension. You are invited to pause for a moment and consider.

Be thoughtful in where you break the line. Your choices impact the reader's experience of the flow and motion of the poem. 

-Gotham Writers

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Instructions on writing 5 different types of poetry. Read this as homework to decide what direction you want your poem to go in. There are multiple pages, be sure to click the orange 'next' button at the bottom of each page. - How to Write Poetry

MLA Example for Narrative Essay

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MLA Format Guidelines

All papers turned in must be in MLA Format. We went over this in class, here is an additional resource to help you.