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MLA Style: Review

MLA Style: Review. Book: Rhodes, Dusty. I Walked a Thousand Miles for Her Smile. New York: Igot, Boots, and Shews, 2008. Book w/ Two Authors: Easterbunny, April, and Mae Showers. In Defense of the

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MLA Style: Review

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  1. MLA Style: Review

  2. Book: • Rhodes, Dusty. I Walked a Thousand Miles for Her Smile. • New York: Igot, Boots, and Shews, 2008. Book w/ Two Authors: • Easterbunny, April, and Mae Showers. In Defense of the • Tooth Fairy: a Tale of Domestic Terrorism. Boston: • Tufts Dental School Press, 2007.

  3. Book w/ Three Authors: Fields, Doug, Ben There, and Hunter Gunn. Hunting Field Mice for Fun and Profit. Dallas: Meat Pie Press, 2006. Periodical Article (Journal, Magazine, Newspaper): Schnoz, B.O. “The Value of Yearly Bathing.”Journal of Personal Hygiene, 20 Dec. 2008: 52.

  4. Internet Article: • “A New Threat to Our Nation: Teenage Gum-chewing.” • CNN.com. 30 Jan. 2008. Cable News Network. • 20 Feb. 2009 • <http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/NEWS • /01/30/gum.teens.threat/index.html>.

  5. Put it all together… • 1” margins all around • Indent paragraphs ½ inch • Double-spaced throughout • Hanging indent (very important!) • Date expressed as day, month, year • Name and page number in upper right corner • Titles of major works in italics (book, journal, magazine, web site.) • Titles of minor works in quotation marks (articles)

  6. McGillicutty 5 (Just pretend this is double-spaced)  Works Cited Schnoz, B.O. “The Value of Yearly Bathing.” Journal of Personal Hygiene, 20 Dec. 2008: 52. Rhodes, Dusty. I Walked a Thousand Miles for Her Smile. New York: Igot, Boots, and Shews, 2008. Easterbunny, April, and Mae Showers. In Defense of the Tooth Fairy: a Tale of Domestic Terrorism. Boston: Tufts Dental School Press, 2007. Fields, Doug, Ben There, and Hunter Gunn. Hunting Field Mice for Fun and Profit. Dallas: Meat Pie Press, 2006. “A New Threat to Our Nation: Teenage Gum-chewing.” CNN.com. 30 Jan. 2008. Cable News Network. 20 Feb. 2009 <http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/NEWS/01/30/gum. teens.threat/index.html>.

  7. In-text Citations • Also known as parenthetical citations • Place at the end of the sentence containing the quote • Make sure you do not use commas! (as a rule) • No “p.” before page numbers • Only use page number if citation just before is from same source

  8. Example: In-text Citations A team can be defined as "a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable" (Katzenbach 45). These teams can be “regarded as creative engines” providing much needed innovation for the company (52). Cogdill et al. argue that "making backchannel overtly available for study would require making its presence and content visible and its content persist, affecting the nature of the backchannel and raising social and ethical issues" (109). The use of Customer Relationship Management systems has grown substantially over the past five years as companies attempt to adapt to customer needs and to improve their profitability ("Making CRM Work").

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