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MLA Citation Format, Part 2: Put Your Papers & Essays in Perfect MLA Style

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MLA manuscript settings for a research paper in Modern Language Association (MLA) style. Also covers in-text citation formatting style (when, where and how to cite) and the how to construct a Works Cited page for source documentation.

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  • I was wondering about the internal citations. I seem to can't get it right. I'm doing a rhetorical analysis on "A Modest Proposal", by the author Jonathon Swift, and I retreived the article from a web site. Since there aren't technically page numbers, but I do cite the paragraphs but my instructor said I didn't do them correctly. I'm not sure what to do..

  • @kaykanysha -->> when you say that you "retrieved the article," could you supply some information about the article you retrieved--author, title, date, web url. Thanks.

  • what if you are using endnotes? does that take care of the bibliography or do you have to do it twice? plz answer

  • @stargirlsusan -- Star, endnotes in MLA do NOT replace in-text citations or the Works Cited page. Endnotes are ONLY supplemental explanations. Please see section 4.5 in MLA 7th edition, p. 230. Good luck and thanks for the good words!

  • When citing a definition from a textbook, do we start a signal phrase with the authors name or the textbook name?

  • @loyantekittay -- a signal phrase is always a good idea in order to provide flow. Since it is a definition from a text, I doubt that the author's name is necessary.

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  • this was SO helpful. thank you for teaching me all the stuff my teacher decided to skip over...

  • Awesome Awesome so Awesome.

  • BOOM! Lol

  • @UnstableUranium ah, ok. that's an easy one: "and"

    (Hawley, Stratton, and Juergensmeyer 17)

    Four or more use et al.

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