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MLA CONVENTIONS

What, Why, and How?. MLA CONVENTIONS. 5. General Formatting Titles & Authors In-Text Citations Works Cited Guidelines & Example Creating a Works Cited List. WHAT IS MLA?.

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MLA CONVENTIONS

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  1. What, Why, and How? MLA CONVENTIONS 5 General Formatting Titles & AuthorsIn-Text CitationsWorks Cited Guidelines & ExampleCreating a Works Cited List

  2. WHAT IS MLA? MLAstands for Modern Language Association, which is a professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. MLA style is the style recommended by the Modern Language Association for preparing and writing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers. It concerns itself with the mechanics of writing, such as punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources. MLA stylehas been widely used by schools, academic departments, and instructors for nearly half a century. MLA style provides writers with a system for cross-referencing their sources from their parenthetical references to their "works cited" page. All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation conventions vary because of the different needs of scholarly disciplines. MLA style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature. Generally simpler and more concise than other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work. WHY USE MLA? Using MLA Style properly makes it easier for readers to navigate and comprehend a text by providing familiar cues when referring to sources and borrowed information. Editors and instructors also encourage everyone to use the same format so there is consistency of style within a given field. Following MLA's standards as a writer will allow you to: - Provide your readers with cues they can use to follow your ideas more efficiently and to locate information of interest to them. - Allow readers to focus more on your ideas by not distracting them with unfamiliar or complicated formatting. - Establish your credibility or ethos in the field by demonstrating an awareness of your audience and their needs as fellow researchers (particularly concerning the citing of references).

  3. WHEN DO I USE MLA? There are several steps in your essay writing process where you will need to use MLA, including: (1) General Formatting (2) Titles & Authors (3) In-Text Citations (4) Works Cited In this chapter, we’ll show you how to use MLA for each of these 4 areas… HOW DO I USE MLA? The following explanations and examples will help familiarize you with the basic formatting requirements of MLA Style and the different standards for notation that MLA writers are expected to use. Pay attention to even the small details from basic paper layout to abbreviations to punctuation and spacing. A well formatted essay sends a positive message to the reader that the writer has invested care, time, and attention into crafting the essay.

  4. (2) Titles & Authors

  5. PRACTICE Find the TEN FORMATTING ERRORS in the first page of the following essay: (Pause)

  6. ANSWERS (3) In essay information in the top left, the class title is left out (4) The page numbering in the top right has the professor’s last name, not the student’s (1) The font is too large at size 16 (2) The font is unconventional (7) The title of the novel is in quotes when it should be italicized (5) The title “Revision of Essay #1” is generic, not creative and does not draw in reader interest (6) When the novel is introduced, it needs to also list the author (8) The main character is referred to by different informal nicknames not used in the text and one is misspelled. Always be accurate and consistent with character and author names and be sure they are spelled correctly. (9) There is an extra space after the first paragraph and the second paragraph needs to be indented (10) The margins are not one inch on each side

  7. ANSWERS The formatting errors have been corrected in the version here

  8. (3) In-Text Citations #1 #2

  9. From Purdue OWL:MLA has turned to a style of documentation that is based on a general method that may be applied to every possible source, to many different types of writing. But since texts have become increasingly mobile, and the same document may be found in several different sources, following a set of fixed rules is no longer sufficient.       The current system is based on a few principles, rather than an extensive list of specific rules. While the handbook still gives examples of how to cite sources, it is organized according to the process of documentation, rather than by the sources themselves. This process teaches writers a flexible method that is universally applicable. Once you are familiar with the method, you can use it to document any type of source, for any type of paper, in any field. Here is an overview of the process: When deciding how to cite your source, start by consulting the list of core elements. These are the general pieces of information that MLA suggests including in each Works Cited entry. In your citation, the elements should be listed in the following order: Each element should be followed by the punctuation mark shown here.

  10. that concludes 5 MLA CONVENTIONS

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