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MLA Fun time!!

MLA Fun time!!. Heading. In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. Be sure to double-space the text. Bobby Gregorivich Mr. Vennard English 10 GT 4A 10/3/12. Format. Everything is double spaced

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MLA Fun time!!

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  1. MLA Fun time!!

  2. Heading • In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. Be sure to double-space the text. Bobby Gregorivich Mr. Vennard English 10 GT 4A 10/3/12

  3. Format • Everything is double spaced • Type in Times New Roman 12 or similar • Italicize “large” works (novels, plays, movies) • This changes to UNDERLINE when written in longhand • Use quotation marks for shorter works (short stories, songs, poems) • Set page to 1” margins all around • Be sure no “extra” spaces are set between paragraphs • You may have to change this in Word, under the Paragraph tab • Center title if one exists. Do NOT underline, or use all caps, or do anything weird • Paginate all pages

  4. In Text Citation When you quote from a play or novel and the excerpt uses fewer than four lines of text in your paper, include the text in the body of your paragraph. If verse, divide lines of verse with slashes the way you would if quoting poetry. Example: Robert Kallbert sees Shakespeare as “a hack, a misogynist, and a plagiarists—just a very talented one” (29). Macbeth himself doubts his vision and his sanity with his plea “come, let me clutch thee/I have thee not and yet I see thee still./Art thou, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?” (II, i, 13-15).

  5. In Text Citation 2 • Often, short in text citations may begin with how, when, why, or who to setup the quote. • Example: Mr. Jones is irresponsible. This is shown when he forgets his hens’ safety at night and does not close the doors to the chicken coop, because he was “too drunk to remember”(Orwell 25).

  6. Punctuating MLA citations Literary critic Peter Stoyovich believes Hamlet “is clearly a whiny little girl who needs to have his manhood questioned throughout the play” (19). This example is uses the author in the sentence so there is no need to mention the author in the citation. No punctuation here! Period here! No punctuation preceding quote if used as part of your sentence!

  7. Basic punctuation of parenthetical citations *Do NOT put a comma between the name and the page number. *Do NOT write p., pg., or page before the page number. Ex: …can be seen when “he rose from the bed, stretching towards the heavens as a man begging for divine truth (Bobkins 229).

  8. Block Citations • If you are quoting more than four lines in your paper, you will need to indent each line of your quotation by2 tabs. The lines should be arranged as they appear in the text if you are quoting verse and arranged as a paragraph if you are quoting prose. Example: Winston understands the power of Insoc, as Orwell clearly differentiates Winston’s surroundings from the infrastructure of government power: One tab for new para. The Ministry of Truth -- Minitrue, in Newspeak -- was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party. (39) Two tabs for block quotation

  9. Punctuating Block Quotations Winston understands the power of Insoc, as Orwell clearly differentiates Winston’s surroundings from the infrastructure of government power: Set up block quote with colon No quotation mark around block quote The Ministry of Truth -- Minitrue, in Newspeak -- was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party. (39) No author name in this example as it was mentioned in text Period at end of quote, NO PERIOD after citation

  10. Citing dialogue between characters in a play • Always use the BLOCK format (indented 2 tabs), and write the character names in ALL CAPS • Example Miller clearly differentiates the two when discussing the helmet during the second act: BERNARD: Biff, I'm carrying your helmet, ain't I? HAPPY: No, I'm carrying the helmet. BERNARD: Oh, Biff, you promised me. HAPPY: I'm carrying the helmet. (Miller 2.43-47)

  11. Paraphrase • If paraphrasing, always remember you MUST COMPLETELY REPHRASE original author’s words into your own sentences, whether from literature or critical comments on literature. You STILL MUST cite. EXAMPLES • Despite Hamlet’s thoughts of suicide, he has no real plans to act on them (III.ii.12-33). • It is clearly Oberon who forces the issue, as Titania is a reluctant participant in their separation and feud (Johnsonian 332).

  12. Works Cited • Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper. • Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center • Double space all citations, and do not skip spaces between entries. • Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent. • ** URLs (web addresses) are no longer required for web sources!

  13. Works Cited BOOK • Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Example • Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print. Work in Collection • Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication. Example • Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print. • IF THERE IS NO AUTHOR, THEN THE TITLE IS USED AND ALPHABETIZED WITHIN THE WORKS CITED PAGE ACCORDINGLY.

  14. A few more tips Always use present tense when discussing literature! There is NO 1st or 2nd person!! Remember: There is NO WHERE on an MLA paper that has more than one double space separating text: Everything is double spaced!! Go here for any questions http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

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