MLA How To

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MLA How To

• Ms. Riney
• 10/16/07

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MLA Means?

• M Modern
• L Language
• A Association

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MLA Why Do We Use It?

• We use MLA because it puts our writing into a
  universal format.
• Meaning that anyone who reads our work can
  understand our ideas and find information on our
  sources because we cite things the same way that
  everyone else does when they use MLA formatting.

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MLA What Does It Do For Us?

• MLA documentation allows us to give credit to our
  sources.

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MLA What is a Reference?

• A reference is something or someone we refer to.
  When talking about MLA references, it means that
  we are referring to someone elses work in our
  own writing.

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With me so far?
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MLA Getting Started

• How to cite a book
• Authors name (Last, First)
• Book title (underlined)
• Place of publication (State, City)
• Date of publication

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MLA Getting Started Continued

• it should look like this
• Bunting, Eve. Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz
  Island. New York New York, 1984.

Last name
First name
Title
State, City
Date
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MLA - Online

• Website
• Authors name (if available Last, First)
• Page title (in quotations)
• Site title (underlined)
• Publishing or last revision date (dd/mmm/yyyy)
• Organization
• Date accessed (when did YOU look at it?) (again
  dd/mmm/yyyy)
• URL

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MLA Online Continued

• it should look like this
• well, this one is missing a few things
• Carlson, Laura. Dobson, Pat. Shocking Sharks.
  2, Feb, 1999. 15, Oct, 2007.
• lthttp//projects.edtech.sandi.net/sessions/sharks
  /gt.

Last name First name
Second authors Last name First name
Page name
URL Date/last edited Date accessed
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MLA Something Else Online

• Online Journal or Magazine
• Authors name (Last, First)
• Article Title (in quotations)
• Publication Title (underlined)
• Volume , Issue
• Publishing date (dd/mmm/yyyy)
• Page s (from beginning to end)
• Date accessed (when did YOU look at it?)
  (dd/mmm/yyyy)
• Article URL

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MLA Something Else Online continued

• it should look like this
• Brashear, Charles. The Invasion of Alcatraz.
  Callaloo. 17, 1. 1999 309-317. 15, Oct, 2007.
• lthttp//links.jstor.org/sici?sici0161-24922819
  942429173A13C3093ATIOA3E2.0.CO3B2-E gt.

Last name First name Article
title Publication title Publication date
URL Page s Date accessed
Volume Issue
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I know this is a lot.You can do it!
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MLA Extras

• Books, websites, and online journals/magazines
  are not the only things that we cite as
  references.
• These are probably some of the most common.
• If you find something for your research project
  and dont know how to cite it, you can use this
  helpful tool

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MLA Extras Continued

• http//citationmachine.net/
• Also, you can always ask a teacher!

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DONE!!!!