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Becoming One with Your Inner MLA God( dess )

Becoming One with Your Inner MLA God( dess ). Types of Students. Those who haven’t started their research. Those who are in the process of conducting research. Those who have completed their research. Starting Research. The library is your best friend. Why?.

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Becoming One with Your Inner MLA God( dess )

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  1. Becoming One with Your Inner MLA God(dess)

  2. Types of Students • Those who haven’t started their research. • Those who are in the process of conducting research. • Those who have completed their research.

  3. Starting Research • The library is your best friend.

  4. Why?

  5. It generates the citations for you!

  6. The Format volume.issue

  7. The Format Scholarly journal article from an online database to which the library subscribes. Last Name, First Name. “Article Name.” Periodical Name Volume.Issue(Year): Inclusive Page Numbers. Database Name. Web. Date of Access.

  8. Watch Out for These • Capitalization • Italics

  9. Capitalization MacColl, Alan. "King Arthur And The Making Of An English Britain." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012. MacColl, Alan. “KING ARTHUR AND THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISH BRITAIN." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.

  10. Italics MacColl, Alan. "King Arthur and the Making of an English Britain." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.

  11. Books The easiest thing to cite.

  12. The Format: Basic Last Name, First Name. Title. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Year. Print.

  13. The Format: Chapter Last Name, First Name. “Chapter.” Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Inclusive page numbers. Print.

  14. Other Information • Editor • Translator • Original publication date • Multiple authors

  15. Editor Farber, Bernard, and Eric Larson, eds. Eds. Bernard Farber and Eric Larson.

  16. Original Publication Date Put the original date after the title. Otherwise, continue as usual. Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination. 1950. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008. Print.

  17. Multiple Authors Parke, Ross, Lorna McKee, and Margaret O’Brien. Parke, Ross, et al.

  18. Et al. “Et al.” means “et aliī,” Latin for “and those other dudes.” Do not put a period after “et.”

  19. Translator Schorr, Burt, trans. Trans. Burt Schorr.

  20. They’ve already started their research, and every source is Google

  21. The Format Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Website. Company that Produces the Website, Date of Publication. Web. Date of Access.

  22. Sneed, Tierney. “Should Universities Pay Their Student Athletes?” U.S. News. U.S. News & World Report LP,18 Aug. 2011. Web. 30 Dec. 2012.

  23. If It Doesn’t Exist, You Can’t Put It In the Citation Skip any information that can’t be found.

  24. Exceptions No publisher: n.p. No date: n.d. Sneed, Tierney. “Should Universities Pay Their Student Athletes?” U.S. News. N.p., n.d.Web. 30 Dec. 2012.

  25. Citation Generators • MS Word Generator • Easybib • Noodle Tools

  26. Formatting • Hanging indents • Margins • Space after paragraphs

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