time’s new roman

double

no

12 point

if it can’t be found otherwise

with the author and the page number

with a slash at the end of each verse and the space should proceed and follow the slash.

your nameteacher’s namename of classdate

last name and page number

centered

put the title in parenthesis and quotations

put a semicolon

day month, year

a clear position that you will support and develop throughout your paper, this sentence guides or controls your paper

sets the context for the rest of the paper where you tell your readers why you are writing and why your topic is important

centered and written in 12-point, times new roman font and is not bold underlined or italicized

generally the last sentence of the introductory paragraph

if it’s longer than 4 lines

1 inch

the author and page number following the punctuation

at the end, after the punctuation

use the first author’s last name followed by “et al.”

wraps up what you have been discussing in your paper

a list of all the sources cited in your paper

work cited

MLA no longer requires URLs in the works citedinstead, you must write “web” before the date of access

place the publisher’s name in brackets

modern language association

if it’s in the sentence

yes, as long as you don’t twist the meaning

author and/or editor names (if possible)article name in quotation marks (if applicable)title of the website, project, or book in italicsany version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numberspublisher information, including the publisher name and publishing datetake note of any page numbers (if available)medium of publicationdate you accessed the material

that some print publications have web publications with slightly different namesthey may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names (e.g. .

com or.net)

at the bottom of the website

online-WEBbook-PRINT

today’s date

editor, author or compiler name (if available)name of siteversion numbername of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher)date of resource creation (if available)medium of publicationdate of accessall separated by periods

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue andPurdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008.

author or alias (if known)name of siteversion numbername of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher)date of resource creation (if available)medium of publicationdate of access

n.p.

n.d.

“How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” eHow. Demand Media, n.d.

Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

comma between last and first name of author and period afterquotations marks and a period around the page titleperiod after the site titleperiod after the posted dateperiod after the mediumperiod after the last date you looked at the site

artist’s namework of art italicizeddate of creationinstitution and city where the work was housedfollow initial entry with:name of website in italicsmedium of publicationdate of access

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. MuseoNational del Prado. Web. 22 May 2006.

The Purdue OWL.

Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. Date of access.

authortitlejournal namenumber of articleyear of publicationif it’s online only n.

pag.

use the abbreviation n. pag. to denote that there is no pagination for the publication

Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: CurrentConditions and Future Directions.” Social Work and Society:The International Online-Only Journal 6.

2 (2008): n. pag.Web. 20 May 2009.

person interviewedsubject line of email interviewmediumdate of email interview

Jameson, Ian. “Re: Interview Questions.” Email to Ian Jameson.

28 September 2013.

user’s name (last name, first name)his/her twitter username in parenthesis and a period outside the parenthesisplace the tween in entirety in quotations with a period after the tweet within the quotationsinclude the date and time of posting, using the reader’s time zoneseparate the date and time with a comma and end with a periodinclude the word “tweet” afterwards and end with a period

Brokaw, Tom (tombrokaw). “SC demonstrated why all the debates are the engines ofthis campaign.

” 22 Jan. 2012, 3:06 a.m.

Tweet.

Author’s Name or Poster’s Username. “Title of Image or Video.” Media TypeText. Name of Website. Name of Website’s Publisher, date of posting. Medium. date retrieved.

Shimabukuro, Jake. “Ukulele Weeps by Jake Shimabukuro.” Online video clip.YouTube. YouTube, 22 Apr. 2006.

Web. 9 Sept. 2010.

use the name of the corporation followed by the page number for the in-text citation

use abbreviations (e.g., nat’l for national)

use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name

place the title in quotation marks if it’s a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it’s a longer work (e.

g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number

We see so many global warming hot spots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . .

.” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263). Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Wordsworth, William.

Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford UP, 1967. Print.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.

Print.

“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar.

2009.

Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).

Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A.

Miller 46).

Smith, Yang, and Moore argue that tougher gun control is not needed in the United States (76).The authors state “Tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights” (Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).

use the work’s bibliographic information as a guide for your citation.

Provide the first author’s last name followed by et al. or list all the last names

Jones et al. counter Smith, Yang, and Moore’s argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).OrLegal experts counter Smith, Yang, and Moore’s argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (Jones et al. 4).

OrJones, Driscoll, Ackerson, and Bell counter Smith, Yang, and Moore’s argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).

include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting to distinguish it from the others and put short titles of books in italics and short titles of articles in quotation marks

Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children (“Too Soon” 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child’s second and third year (“Hand-Eye Development” 17).

Murray states that writing is “a process” that “varies with our thinking style” (Write to Learn 6). Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to “carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another” (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).

Visual studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be “too easy” (Elkins, “Visual Studies” 63).

follow it by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, and followed, when appropriate, by page numbers

include the volume number followed by a colon and put a space after the colon, then provide the page number(s)

provide only the page number in parentheses

. .

. as Quintilian wrote in Institutio Oratoria (1: 14-17)

In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you’re using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse

Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10)

use “qtd.

in” to indicate the source you actually consulted

a source cited in another source

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as “social service centers, and they don’t do that well” (qtd. in Weisman 259).

Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).

paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function

Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo stars Herzog’s long-time film partner, Klaus Kinski. During the shooting of Fitzcarraldo, Herzog and Kinski were often at odds, but their explosive relationship fostered a memorable and influential film

During the presentation, Jane Yates stated that invention and pre-writing are areas of rhetoric that need more attention

Herzog, Werner, dir.

Fitzcarraldo. Perf. Klaus Kinski. Filmverlag der Autoren, 1982. Film.

Yates, Jane. “Invention in Rhetoric and Composition.

” Gaps Addressed: Future Work in Rhetoric and Composition, CCCC, Palmer House Hilton, 2002. Presentation.

One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo is “..

.a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism” (Garcia, “Herzog: a Life”).

The Purdue OWL is accessed by millions of users every year. Its “MLA Formatting and Style Guide” is one of the most popular resources (Stolley et al.).

Garcia, Elizabeth.

“Herzog: a Life.” Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 2 May 2002. Web.

8 Jan. 2009.

Stolley, Karl, et al. “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006.

Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006.

separate the citations by a semi-colon

. .

. as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).

According to some, dreams express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.According to Foulkes’s study, dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (184).Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184)

Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him throughout her narration:They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw’s door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber.

Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)

In his poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke explores his childhood with his father:The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We Romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother’s countenance Could not unfrown itself. (quoted in Shrodes, Finestone, Shugrue 202)

In “American Origins of the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Movement,” David Russell argues, Writing has been an issue in American secondary and higher education since papers and examinations came into wide use in the 1870s, eventually driving out formal recitation and oral examination. . . . From its birth in the late nineteenth century, progressive education has wrestled with the conflict within industrial society between pressure to increase specialization of knowledge and of professional work (upholding disciplinary standards) and pressure to integrate more fully an ever-widerning number of citizens into intellectually meaningful activity within mass society (promoting social equity).

. . . (3)

Jan Harold Brunvand, in an essay on urban legends, states, “some individuals [who retell urban legends] make a point of learning every rumor or tale” (78).

use brackets around it

In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that “some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . .

and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs” (78).

use 3 dots

by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent

If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages

by alphabetical order

order the entries alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author’s name for every entry after the first

Burke, Kenneth.

A Grammar of Motives. […

]—. A Rhetoric of Motives. […]

use a shortened version of the title in the parenthetical citations in your paper

Baudrillard, Jean.

Simulacra and Simulations. […]Boring Postcards USA. [..

.]Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. [.

..]

in quotation marks

4

top left of first page

false

double

centered below the heading, near the top of the page

student’s last name and page number

Works Cited

In alphabetical order by author’s surname or title regardless of type of reference

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: “In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen 7)

According to Keaveney, “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (103)

only the first author’s name should listed followed by et al.

true

indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks

false

true

book chapter

true

underlined or italicised

newspaper article

journal article

According to R.W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with historically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (qtd.

in “Melanoma” 372).

book

Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government (“Was Emerson lying” A2).

Jeremy Black insists that “[t]his film.

..is not.

..funny.

“

true

Rowling, J. K.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1997. Print.