HSAS STUDENTS

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WELCOME

• HSAS STUDENTS

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MLA Style

• The Modern Language Association
• has created a handbook on MLA style especially
  for high school students.

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What is a style guide?

• A style guide is a set of rules that writers
  follow when they are publishing a paper.
• Some style guides are published as books, others
  are just pamphlets or several pages long.
• Actually such rules make writing a paper much
  easier. The student reads the guide and follows
  its rules when typing and formatting a term
  paper.

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Why do I have to follow a style guide?

• That is a very reasonable question.
• There are some very good reasons that people who
  do scholarly writing must follow a style guide.
• When students begin doing term papers, the MLA
  Handbook allows the student to quickly resolve
  all the small issues that naturally arise when
  you are conducting academic research and writing
  a term paper.
• Learning one style and using it will acquaint you
  with style guides so that adapting to company or
  other academic styles will not be difficult.

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How many styles are there, anyway?

• There are many different styles in use today.
  Style guides allow scholars in their chosen
  fields to communicate more accurately with each
  other. This makes communication quicker and
  easier.
• In American universities there are three main
  style guides currently in use MLA, APA, and
  Chicago. In the world of academic publishing
  there are hundreds.
• In specialized fields each journal has its own
  style guidea written set of requirements for
  manuscripts submitted for publication..

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The Big Three

• MLA Style is used in journals published by the
  Modern Language Association and by students
  writing term papers.
• APA Style is used mostly in scientific
  publishing, particularly the field of psychology.
  This guide is published by the American
  Psychological Association.
• Chicago Manual of Style used by the University
  of Chicago Press for its publications and by
  others who choose to use it.

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Other Style Guides

• Other styles guides are used to prepare
  manuscripts in specialized fields, such as law,
  biology, physics, chemistry, medicine.
• Every journal has its own rules for publication.
  If you ever write for any journal you will be
  required to follow specific rules.
• Learning one style should make you able to adapt
  to other styles when the need arises.

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Can a Style Guide Make My Work Easier?

• Actually such rules make writing a paper much
  easier. The student reads the guide and follows
  its rules when typing and formatting a term
  paper.
• HSAS has adopted the MLA Style. When you write
  your paper in MLA Style it will be easy for you
  to read and correct the work of one of your
  peers, since you have studied the MLA Handbook
  and learned the MLA Style.