MLA Citations

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MLA Citations General Rules Exceptions And
Practice
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A Few Notes on MLA The Modern Language
Association (MLA) Style is widely used for
identifying research sources. In MLA style you
briefly credit sources with parenthetical
citations in the text of your paper, and give the
complete description of each source in your Works
Cited list. The Works Cited list, or
Bibliography, is a list of all the sources used
in your paper, arranged alphabetically by
author's last name, or when there is no author,
by the first word of the title (except A, An or
The).
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MLA is All About Crediting the Author
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• General Rules of MLA in-text citation (also
  called parenthetical citation)
• Name the Author either in the sentence or in
  parenthetical
• Include a page reference. No p. precedes the
  number. (Green 32)
• Do not include long URLs in parentheses.
• If no author is available cite the title

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• More about In-Text Citation
• If author is named in the sentence, then only
  include the page number. Exp
• As Green states, record deals were
  usually negotiated by middlemen (127).
• Punctuation belongs outside the parentheses, the
  citation is part of the sentence.
• There is no comma between author name and pg
  (Green 127).

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• Pg 283 in the Writers Resource Handbook
  discusses In-Text Citations
• Here you will find the answers to
• How to in-text cite a work with 2 authors
• How to cite two works by the same author
• How to cite an Organization as an author
• How to cite if the author is unknown
• How to cite a one page source, an internet site,
  an indirect source etc etc etc

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• MLA Works Cited Page
• All papers must include this page!
• Name and Page number on top of page
• Citations are NOT numbered
• Citations are alphabetical by Author or title

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• Typical MLA Book Citation
• Authors Name. Book Title Underlined. City
  Publisher, date.
• If a university press use UP. Exp Cambridge
  University Press is Cambridge UP.
• If more than one city, cite the first

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• Check Your Writers Resource Handbook, pg 293 for
  answers to the following
• How to cite from
• Article in a journal paginated by volume
• A work in an anthology
• A work with one or more authors
• A work in an edited anthology
• Online Articles, blogs, emails, cartoons, visuals
  etc etc.

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• A Note About Internet Sources
• Work from a library or personal subscription
  service Material accessed through a lib.
  Subscription service such as EBSCO, InfoTrac,
  ProQuest and LexisNexis needs to be cited as
  such. Add to your citation the name of the
  online service used, librarys name the date of
  access, and, if known, the URL of the sites
  homepage

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• Remember
• You must include a date accessed along with a
  date published on all internet citations

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Correct Or Incorrect????
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Green states that, in the late 19th century,
the sale of sheet music spread rapidly. (Green
pg 4)
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INCORRECT!!! Green states that, in the late 19th
century, the sale of sheet music spread rapidly
(4).
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Works Cited Work in an Anthology Smith,Hale.
Here I Stand. Readings in Black American
Music. Ed. Eileen Southern. New York Norton,
1971
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CORRECT !
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WORKS CITED Article in a Periodical that appears
only online Ross, Michael E. The New Sultans
of Swing. 18 Apr. 1996. lthttp//www.salon.com/w
eekly/ musci1.htmlgt.
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INCORRECT! Ross, Michael E. The New Sultans of
Swing. 18 Apr. 1996. 3 May 2005
lthttp//www.salon.com/we ekly/musci1.htmlgt.
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Works Cited Website lthttp//www.myspace.com
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INCORRECT! Sullivan, Andrew. The Grim Task in
Iraq. Weblog Posting. Myspace. 25 Nov. 2003.
24 Feb. 2004 lthttp//www.myspace.com/4 3321344gt.
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NOTE MLA suggests that you cite articles from
websites instead of citing an entire website!
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Works Cited Film Artists and Models. Dir. Raoul
Walsh. Perf. Louis Armstrong, Martha Raye and
Connee Boswell. Paramount Pictures, 1937.
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CORRECT!!
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• THINGS TO REMEMBER
• Follow MLA format throughout your paper!
• Double Space your Works Cited page
• Check Your Handbook