Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Includes bibliographical references p. Research and writing -- Chapter 2. Mechanics of writing -- Chapter 3. Format of the research paper -- Chapter 4. Documentation : preparing the list of works cited -- Chapter 5. Documentation : citing sources in the text -- Chapter 6.
Abbreviations -- Appendix A. Selected reference works by field -- Appendix B. Other systems of documentation -- Sample pages of a research paper in MLA style -- Index The handbook takes readers through the research paper process step by step, and includes information on narrowing the topic, outlining, note taking, etc. Before dealing with such mechanics of writing as spelling, punctuation, and format, the manual covers the use of catalogs online and paper , indexes, and databases in the library and offers a list of some standard print and electronic reference works.
At some point in my life, most probably when I was in college, but maybe in high school too, I used this book as a guide to writing a research paper. I didn't read the book cover to cover. That would be silly. I'll probably have to use it again if I ever write another research paper. The chance of that happening is slim. Jan 29, Drew Lackovic rated it did not like it. I've never found a MLA formatting book that I've been happy with.
This one lives up to the low standard I've grown to expect for MLA books. Jan 20, Stacy Davis-White rated it it was amazing. If I never have to see this book again.. I truly READ the book this time, instead of using it as pure reference: it is clearly written, with fabulous examples, and so much better than most other handbooks. Highly recommend. The official guide for the MLA Welcome changes, particularly the shift from formulaic Works Cited entries to thinking through the research process.
My favorite beach read! I like the changes! It makes everything simplistic and useful, which will be helpful when introducing MLA to my students. And as a teacher of college English since the s, I have explained how to write entries for the Works Cited page and how to use in-text citations. But when teaching a seminar class about democracy in ancient Athens, I bought the 8th edition in paperback.
The editor, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, explains the task of documentation from the s to the present as one growing more challenging given the explosion of genres of text and the movability of texts. Here is an example I have to offer: a photo of a 5th C. BCE Greek statue might be imbedded in a comment on a blog post that could be edited or even removed. If I were the student, I would research the original statue and refer to the museum in which it was housed. But others might site a book of the photographer's work or the blog post hosting the comment.
How I long for the days when I was citing works found in my high school library because the Internet wasn't developed in the s of my adolescence. Consequently, the genres I could cite were few: books, journal articles, magazine articles, and newspaper articles.
If I used my cassette tape recorder, I might have cited an audio of a radio program or television program--but I did not wander from the steretotypical academic genres before post-Modernity blurred the lines between high culture and low. Fitzpatrick raises the white flag on the task of providing an authoritative entry for every possible genre and instead offers these tasks of the researcher: think, select, and organize 4.
And to help the researcher select, she offers a template: Author, Title of Source, Container 1 title, other contributors, version, number, publisher, publication date, location and Container 2 same list as Container 1 Her examples do include books, journals, magazines, and newspapers.
However, they also include films, television episodes, music DVDs, online databases, blog posts and more--but not every possible genre that researchers might include as evidence in their writing. This explosion of genres and mobility of texts is why she presents a template as well as this caveat: "Remember that there is often more than one correct way to document a source" 4.
Here are a few examples citations that I starred oh, so delicately with pencil in the margins of my copy because my students writing about democracy in ancient Athens are most likely to document texts of these genres, hosted in these types of "containers": I am using underscore for italics, and I am not using hanging paragraph format because this text box does not have these formatting features.
JSTOR, www. Bearden, Romare. Museum of Modern Art, New York. I had a 2nd edition of this book - I guess there's got to be a convention somewhere for this sort of thing and this is as good as any other, but still there was a lot of arbitrariness and not a lot of reason why we do things the way we do. Some of the rules were plain silly. There was some, but not much historical value in the insight into how computer science as a field used to look pre-world wide web, before the internet had grown big enough to be relevant to the average researcher, but after I had a 2nd edition of this book - I guess there's got to be a convention somewhere for this sort of thing and this is as good as any other, but still there was a lot of arbitrariness and not a lot of reason why we do things the way we do.
There was some, but not much historical value in the insight into how computer science as a field used to look pre-world wide web, before the internet had grown big enough to be relevant to the average researcher, but after the personal computer including VICs! It's not so much that this book is dated it was but that the rules were barely useful in the first place, we just didn't know it.
What would be better than this book is to just keep a copy of a bunch of research papers around which you're going to do, anyway, as a researcher and just use them as an example. That's probably how they came up with these rules, anyway. There's a list of who's who of classical literature in the back which wouldn't be the worst place to start as a reading list for classical literature.
The authors took on various themes and styles of post-modernist literature. From the meta plot a textbook written by a man madly in love with Mona Lisa and her voluptuous attitude to the monotonous pages on paper formatting highlighting the meaninglessness of love. But through these themes the fictional author writing this textbook also burns with the fire of a romantic era composer.
The pages in which he uses Page Margins as a template for his love for Mona Lisa serve as the climax of this sensual format. All in all a terrific and informative post-modern look at love through the lenses of a love stricken textbook author. I will be using the MLA format exclusively for my essays from now on. Maybe it's weird to have strong opinions about MLA format, but if you've used MLA pre-8th edition, you know that it's always been efficient and streamlined, with the information requiring a lot of space e.
This new edition is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I didn't know a formatting style had the power to cause me such feelings of despair, but this one does. It's a betrayal to all that MLA has been.
Writing the "pp. What Maybe it's weird to have strong opinions about MLA format, but if you've used MLA pre-8th edition, you know that it's always been efficient and streamlined, with the information requiring a lot of space e. What could possibly be the point, when everyone already knows what those numbers are?
Spelling out "vol. All those commas?? Absolutely terrible! Previous MLA said that using URLs was pointless because they so often get broken, unless it was absolutely required for a reader to locate the source.
Why have they been restored?? I will forever and always be loyal to the 7th edition. This new one is absolute garbage. This style handbook offers guidelines on how to document sources according to the widely used standards set out by the MLA Modern Language Association of America.
It's aimed at students, but anyone interested in writing within the humanities, be it a professional paper or a blog, would do well to familiarise themselves with the conventions within. Easy to read with large font and a helpful, explanatory layout; not dense but informative; alongside traditional sources, addresses concerns about ci This style handbook offers guidelines on how to document sources according to the widely used standards set out by the MLA Modern Language Association of America.
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