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Easy MLA. MLA = Modern Language Association. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CITE?. Provide SOURCE of information Attribute to the AUTHOR of language Indicate that you did not create information Indicate that you did not write language
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Easy MLA MLA = Modern Language Association Duncan's MLA shortened
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CITE? • Provide SOURCE of information • Attribute to the AUTHOR of language • Indicate that you did not create information • Indicate that you did not write language • Let your reader know that you are using other scholarship to support and illustrate your ideas Duncan's MLA shortened
MLA citation form • Parenthetical Citation Form • Parentheses = ( ) Duncan's MLA shortened
Where to CITE • Cite at the ends of Sentences • Put PARENTHESES (BRACKETS) just before the final punctuation • Do not put parentheses in the middle of sentences • Quotation marks do not signal where to put parentheses Duncan's MLA shortened
How to CITE • Put the author’s NAME and a NUMBER [for page] in the parentheses • No “p”, or “#”, or “page” • Just the NUMBER No punctuation, no comma, between the name and number Duncan's MLA shortened
EXAMPLES OF CITATIONS • ( Duncan 278) • (Da Costa 391) • (Ortiz Cofer 1201) • (DuBois 12) Duncan's MLA shortened
What to CITE • All LANGUAGE and IDEAS that you did not create DIRECT QUOTATIONS • Language that you take DIRECTLY from a source PARAPHRASES and SUMMARIES • Language that you put in your own words Duncan's MLA shortened