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The New MLA

The New MLA. A guide for consultants…. What Has Changed?. Paper format and in-text citations remain the same. Works cited entries have changed. What Has Changed?. Titles are now italicized instead of underlined. For example:

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The New MLA

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  1. The New MLA A guide for consultants… Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  2. What Has Changed? • Paper format and in-text citations remain the same. Works cited entries have changed. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  3. What Has Changed? • Titles are now italicized instead of underlined. • For example: Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage…… Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  4. What Has Changed? • Medium of the source is specified at the end of each entry. • Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. New York: Athenaeum, 1965. Print. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  5. What Has Changed? • Website entries no longer include the URL! • Fuchigami, Salina Khan. “Green Business Blog: The Devastating Cost of Diamonds.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 15. Jun. 2009. Web. 16 Jun. 2009. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  6. What Has Changed? • Web sources now call for publication information and page number. In the absence of publisher information, use “N.p.”, and add “n.d.” when there is no date of publication. “N.pag.” is included when the website has no page numbers. • Bierce, Ambrose. “Academy.” The Devil’s Dictionary. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Vol. 7. New York: Neale, 1911. N. pag.The Ambrose Bierce Project. Web. 15 May 2008. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  7. What Has Changed? • Volume and issue numbers must be included in bibliography entries of scholarly journals whether or not the journals use continuous pagination. • Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124- 38. Print. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  8. Before and After • Before: • Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. New York: Athenaeum, 1965. • After: • Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. New York: Athenaeum, 1965. Print. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  9. Before and After • Before: • Fuchigami, Salina Khan. “Green Business Blog: The Devastating Cost of Diamonds.”CNN.com 15 June 2009. Cable News Network. 16 June 2009 <http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06 /15/diaz.diamonds.going.green/index.html?ir ef=24hours>. • After: • Fuchigami, Salina Khan. “Green Business Blog: The Devastating Cost of Diamonds.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 15. Jun. 2009. Web. 16 Jun. 2009. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

  10. Before and After • Kaplan, Eran. “Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness and the Sabra Myth.” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society 14.1 (2007): 119-43. Project Muse. Web. 31 July 2009. Nitzan Meltzer The University of Kansas Writing Center 2009

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