INFORMATION ABOUT MLA

FORMATBRITISH LITERATURE

TAKE OUT YOUR COMPLETED OUTLINE DUE YESTERDAY.

WORKS CITED – MLA CITATION

http://www.easybib.com/

IN-TEXT CITATIONS Whenever you use information from another

source, you must cite it in your writing or it is considered plagiarism.

This includes quotations or paraphrasing.

This in-text citation is a signal word or phrase that corresponds to the first thing that appears in the MLA citation.

(Author’s Last Name Page #) Example: (Wiesel 33)

(“Article Title in quotation marks”) Example: (“Asia’s Missing Girls”)

IN-TEXT CITATIONS This can be done in the sentence.

If you use the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need a “parenthetical” citation.Elie Wiesel explains, “he does not want

his past to become their future” (3).“Asia’s Missing Girls” reveals the

gender imbalance due to the one-child policy (2).

If your source references a page number, it must always appear in parentheses.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS Parenthetical Citation: This in-

text citation is in parentheses.He writes his memoir because “he does

not want his past to become their future” (Wiesel 3).

The one-child policy has contributed to a gross gender imbalance in China (“Asia’s Missing Girls” 2).

Use punctuation on the outside of the parenthetical citation.

HANGING INDENTATION

HOW TO MAKE A HANGING INDENT IN MICROSOFT WORD

HOW TO MAKE A HANGING INDENT IN

GOOGLE DOCS

This should be in alphabetical order!

DRAFTING A complete rough draft is due on

Thursday for a peer workshop session.