A short note on MLA

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A short note on MLA
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There are changes you need to know about!!
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• Titles of books are no longer underlined.
• Titles of books are to be written in Italics!!
• The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization by G.
  Nauss is a most informative tome of intense scope
  and magnitude.

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Works Cited will also change slightly
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Works Cited Pages Must Include

• All you have been doing one more thing
• You must include the publication medium such as,
  Print, Web, DVD, or CD.

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What our Anthology stories might look like

• Wilson, Budge. The Metaphor. Inside
  Stories II. Eds. Glen Kirkland and Richard
  Davies. Toronto Harcourt Brace Canada, 1987.
  65-80. Print.

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Poetry would look like this

• Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken. Sound and
  Sense. 2nd ed. Ed. Laurence Perrine. Canada
  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963. 68-69. Print.

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Newspapers look like this

• Cohen, Sharon. Too Young To Know. The Daily
  News. Halifax 11 Feb. 2000 A3. Print.
• Use letters and numbers for sections and page
  numbers (If the article is continued on more than
  one page and it is not a consecutive page use a
  plus sign after the section and page number (C2).

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Films or Videos look like this

• The Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes. Perf.
  Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael
  Hall, and Judd Nelson. 1985 DVD Universal
  Studios, 2005.

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Example (lecture by a teacher)

• In my English class the teacher explained that
  George Orwell used satire and allusion when he
  crafted Joseph Stalins character counterpart in
  Animal Farm as Napoleon the pig due to Napoleons
  usurping of Animal Farm and turning it into a
  Fascist state (Nauss).

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Electronic Sources

• Frost, Robert. Mowing. A Boys Will. New
  York Henry Holt, 1915. Project Bartleby
  Archive. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. Dec. 1995.
  Columbia U. Web. 6 Mar.2002. lthttp//www.bartleb
  y.com/117/19htmlgt.
• Note carefully where the word web is.

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Books in General

• Forster, E. M. A Passage to India. London
  Penguin, 1979. Print.

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Understandably This can be a bit overwhelming or
confusing
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Remember to check my website or other reputable
source if in doubt

• Then youll be rockin!!