Full Description
Briefer, more affordable, and easier to use than the MLA's own handbook, this popular guide features the current MLA standards and principles, new annotated examples, and an expanded guide to citing online resources. You'll appreciate the Guide's numerous examples, a sample research paper, and helpful hints on such topics as evaluating resources and avoiding plagiarism.
Contents
Acknowledgements.
1. Implications for Your Research and Composing.
Evaluating Resources.
Compiling Source Information.
Taking Notes.
Quoting Sources.
Summarizing and Paraphrasing Sources.
Avoiding Plagiarism.
2. Documenting Sources.
Preparing the List of Works Cited.
Using the Core Elements to Create Works-Cited Entries.
Sample Entries: Books in Print.
Sample Entries: Articles in Print Periodicals.
Sample Entries: Online Publications.
Sample Entries: Miscellaneous Sources.
Using Notes.
Abbreviations for MLA Documentation.
3. Annotated Student Research Paper: �The Perils of the Second Shift: Navigating Work Family Conflict in the 21st Century,� by Nichole Pe�a.
Index.
