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Using MLA Style 7 th Edition

Using MLA Style 7 th Edition. writingcenter.txstate.edu. Why MLA?. There are two main reasons we use MLA citation: To have a uniformed convention for documenting research To avoid plagiarism MLA is also a complete formatting and style guide. MLA Formatting Basics. No separate cover page

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Using MLA Style 7 th Edition

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  1. UsingMLA Style7th Edition writingcenter.txstate.edu

  2. Why MLA? • There are two main reasons we use MLA citation: • To have a uniformed convention for documenting research • To avoid plagiarism • MLA is also a complete formatting and style guide.

  3. MLA Formatting Basics • No separate cover page • 1” margins • Double space everything • Onespace after periods • 12 pt. Times New Roman • Indent paragraphs .5” • Indent block quotes 1” from left margin

  4. MLA Formatting Basics • Names of large works are italicized • books, periodicals, album titles, etc. • Names of works within larger works are placed in quotation marks • articles, chapters, essays, poems, songs, etc.

  5. Header on first page only Start page numbering here Title is not bold Do not put an extra space between paragraphs (Page scanned from The Bedford Handbook, 8th ed.)

  6. Page numbering

  7. Margin settings

  8. Open paragraph settings

  9. Select “First line” indent Indenting paragraphs

  10. Avoiding space after paragraphs Change default to 0 pt.

  11. Continue page numbering from first page Block quotes: Indent 1”, no quotation marks, and period comes before citation Block quote when quotations run over four lines (Page scanned from The Bedford Handbook, 8th ed.)

  12. Indent 1” Indenting block quotes

  13. Citing Sources in the Text Author’s name in text: Robertson states that “fish sleep with their eyes open” (136). Author’s name in reference: It is true that “fish sleep with their eyes open” (Robertson 136).

  14. Citing Sources in the Text • Paraphrasing: In his aquatic research, John Robertson explains that sleeping fish do not close their eyes (136). Sleeping fish do not close their eyes (Robertson 136).

  15. Practice

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  20. Practice

  21. Works Cited: Making the List • Identify the source • Find a sample of citing this type of source • “Mirror”the sample

  22. Do not bold!!! Continue page numbering Hanging indent (Page scanned from The Bedford Handbook, 8th ed.)

  23. Select “Hanging indent” Indenting Works Cited

  24. Basics of Works Cited • Book Johnson, Roberta. Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2003. Print. • Work in an Anthology Bordo, Susan. “The Moral Content of Nabokov’s Lolita.”Aesthetic Subjects. Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003. 125-52. Print.

  25. Basics of Works Cited • Journal • Web database Williams, Linda. “Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies.”Critical Inquiry 32.2 (2006): 288-340. Project Muse. Web. 8 Feb. 2009. • In print Williams, Linda. “Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies.”Critical Inquiry 32.2 (2006): 288-340. Print. • Online journal Williams, Linda. “Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies.”Critical Inquiry 32.2 (2006): 288-340. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.

  26. Practice:True/False • The works cited list is organized alphabetically by authors’ last names (or by title for a work with no author). • When a work’s author is unknown, the work is listed under “Anonymous” in the list of works cited. • The list of works cited is titled “Bibliography.” • An entry for a web source in the list of works cited includes the date the source was accessed. • In-text citations and a works cited list is only required if a professor requests it. Adapted from:

  27. Online Resources • Citation generators??? • The Bedford Handbook • Writing Center website • Owl Purdue: owl.english.purdue.edu • www.worldcat.org • Texas State library databases • MLA style guide

  28. Group Activity • Exercise 53-3, MLA documentation: in-text citations (Hacker/Sommers, Working with Sources: Exercises for The Bedford Handbook, 8th ed. [Boston: Bedford, 2010])

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