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MLA

MLA. Modern Language Association. What is MLA Style?. A standardized style of documenting and formatting. All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation conventions vary because of the different needs of scholarly disciplines. .

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MLA

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  1. MLA Modern Language Association

  2. What is MLA Style? • A standardized style of documenting and formatting. • All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation conventions vary because of the different needs of scholarly disciplines.

  3. What is MLA Style? • MLA style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature.

  4. What is MLA Style? • Generally simpler and more concise than other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work.

  5. What is the Purpose of MLA? • To give order and organization! • Documentation of sources is necessary not just in research papers but in any written work that contains information from or references to texts outside itself.

  6. What is the Purpose of MLA? • MLA citations function to: • lead your reader to the part of a text you focus on, • and help your reader to distinguish between your ideas and reasoning and those you derive from other sources.

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