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French 41W: MLA Style

Correctly Citing One's Sources

Why cite?

  

Citing your sources is required! It is also beneficial in several ways:

  • Ethically: It helps you distinguish between your ideas and those of your sources
  • Collegially: Others can look up the sources you used to get more information about your subjects
  • Rhetorically:  It proves that you are up-to-date with what people are saying. This makes you look more knowledgeable. 

If you are an English major, most of your classes will use MLA citation style.

Here are a few tips...

Aug 11, 2015

Finding Citation Information

  

MLA Handbook

There are many brief MLA guides out there, but the MLA Handbook contains the complete rules.  It is useful to consult for several reasons:

  • It explains the reasons behind the rules. These are important for resolving ambiguity.
  • It covers special cases that may be excluded from brief guides.
  • It provides enough information to allow you to cobble together your own rules when there isn't an exact rule for what you want to do.
  • The examples are fantastic.

The MLA Style Center 

 

credit for this page, Prof. N. Foasberg, Literatures in English Research Guide