Questions related to the Modern Language Association (MLA) writing and formatting style
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How do I quote a graphic novel?
I am writing a paper for a Canadian Literature class, and want to quote portions of one of the graphic novels we studied. Do I quote the written portions as I would any other written work? I am using ...
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Citing Myself As a Source
I'm writing an academic paper on ethics in robotics. I have a previous paper that I wrote and would like to use material from it. If I use the material from this paper, that I wrote, do I need to ...
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Citing speech and interviews in biographies
I am currently writing a biography of a band, and have a question regarding citing quotes, such as from interviews. Is it necessary to cite everything a person (for example a band member or manager) ...
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Indirect source quotations [duplicate]
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Citing speech and interviews in biographies
How do you quote an indirect source (source quoted in another source) when there are explanatory words within the indirect ...
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MLA format for a book summary
I am to write a book "review" as an assignment, but really it's just a book summary. Our professor wants us to use the MLA format in this book review. Of course, the format includes rules on how to do ...
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Can you change a punctuation mark when referencing a passage from a text?
I'm writing an essay for the play Waiting for Godot, and there is a passage I want to use:
ESTRAGON: (very insidious). But what about Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Sunday? ...
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Multiple authors in MLA header
I'm writing a group paper and I was wondering whether there's a correct way to list multiple authors at the top of the first page in MLA format. Normally the header would look something like:
My Name
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In-Text Citations: Author-Date v.s. [Number]?
I was reading a guidance of the APA style and I am now confused with the in-text citation part.
According to what I have read,
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text ...
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How to quote something twice
If I use a quote and then want to explicitly refer to a small part of that quote again, within the same paragraph, do I need to use quotation marks again? Can I use italics instead? I am writing in ...
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MLA formatting for multiple in-text citations of the same soure
I am writing an essay and must use MLA formatting. I can format the MLA formatting for the speech on the works cited page but I do not know how to form my in-text citations. The whole speech is done ...
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Quoting Films in an essay using MLA
I am trying to quote a film (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) in an MLA format essay, and I am not quite sure how to go about it. I have figured out how to cite it (both in the essay and in a Works ...
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Quoting a song in an essay title
I want to use a song lyric as a portion of my title for an essay. Obviously, I have to cite that those words are not my own, but how would I go about doing that? Do I use parenthetical documentation ...
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How do I quote a song from Youtube? MLA format
I need to quote a song from Youtube. I don't own the song and the artist who sings it hasn't put an official version on YT.
How should I do this? It needs to be in MLA form.
This is the song: ...
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Referencing a Play in an MLA paper
I've gone through several different resources that appeared in the Google search bar when I asked this question, but the sources give different answers to this question:
When referencing a play ...
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Quotes inside of Quotes inside of Quotes
For an essay I am using Mother Lois' quote on page 104 of the Washington Square Press paperback edition of Warrior's Don't Cry. In particular, the line goes like this:
"Look," Mother said, ...
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Where can I find information about how to cite a web address using MLA?
Say I was trying to cite this question and properly format my works cited section using MLA. Where would I look to find information on how to format it?
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in text citation for handbook
I want to do in text citation of my "DK Handbook",
In other words, I don't want put it's citation in 'work cited' section as it would be short and so obvious
I searched internet and MLA handbook but ...
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Citing foreign language sources (Swedish) in MLA7 bibliography?
I'm unsure of whether or not I should cite a foreign language source (Swedish), with the original (Swedish) title, or use a translated English language title. The paper is for university-level ...
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Problems with past tenses in formal paper on a novel with MLA Format
I have been writing high school English paper on a novel in MLA format. Is there any rule about using past participle or past imperfect? Throughout the essay there have been many places that can be ...
