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Understanding MLA Style Changes: Digital Sources Norm

Learn about the significant changes in MLA Style Sheet starting fall 2009, where digital sources are now considered the norm, requiring print sources to be specifically identified. Discover how to cite web sources and articles found online through databases, as explained in the updated MLA guidelines.

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Understanding MLA Style Changes: Digital Sources Norm

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  1. Writing Program Summer Workshop, 2009

  2. How has the MLA Style Sheet changed? • Starting this fall, the Modern Language Association style sheet will significantly change the way it indicates whether a source is digital or print!  The big change is that digital sources are now the "norm" and print sources must be specifically designated as "Print," as in this example: Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning. New York: Putnam, 2005. Print. • Sources published only online are now indicated by the word "Web" in the entry but without a URL (i.e., web page address), as in this example: Belau, Linda. “Trauma and the Material Signifier.” Postmodern Culture           11.2 (2001): n. pag. Web. 20 Feb. 2009. • Sources originally (or once) published in print but found using an online database are indicated by naming the database without a URL, as in this example: Johnson, Kirk. “The Mountain Lions of Michigan.” Endangered Species           Update 19.2 (2002): 27-31. Expanded Academic Index. Web. 26           Nov. 2008. Source: Bedford-St. Martin’s, Update: Documenting Sources in MLA Style, 2009 Update—A Hacker Handbooks Supplement

  3. Read it aloud, and then look carefully at it.

  4. Count every " F" in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... • HOW MANY DO YOU SEE?

  5. IF YOU SAID FEWER THAN 6, YOU WERE WRONG.  TRY IT AGAIN !

  6. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... Why is this so hard to do?

  7. O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty  uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Thephaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the  ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat  ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll  raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas  tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

  8. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” --Voltaire

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