LibGuides: World Literature: Citation Style-MLA

MLA

What Is MLA Style? "MLA style is a system for documenting sources in scholarly writing. For over half a century, it has been widely adopted for classroom instruction and used throughout the world by scholars, journal publishers, and academic and commercial presses. Learn more about the history of the style with our interactive time line."

MLA Style Center: Writing Resources from the Modern Language Association
"The MLA Style Center is the only authorized Web site on MLA style. A companion to the MLA Handbook, the site provides students and educators with a host of free resources for teaching and learning the MLA’s approach to research, writing, and documentation."

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Online Writing Center-Purdue Owl

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Core Aspects of MLA

These are the general pieces of information that MLA suggests including in each Works Cited entry. In your citation, the elements should be listed in the following order:

Author.
Title of source.
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication date,
Location.

Source: Owl Purdue Writing Center

Plagerism

What is Plagerism?

Hosted by Bergen Library, and created by Pearson, this PDF is geared towards everyone (faculty, staff and students) and outlines some considerations to think about when it comes to plagerism.

To avoid plagiarizing:

Paraphrase: put the ideas from the text COMPLETELY into your own words. Even when paraphrasing you must still use in-text citations as well as including it in the works cited section.
Use quotation marks around text that has been taken directly from the original source.
Cite every source of information you use in your paper unless it is common knowledge (i.e. the sky is blue) or the results of your own research.

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