A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation

A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation

A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation is an affordable and classroom-tested guide that provides only the information students need most often and â€” according to the author's own students â€” is easier to use than the actual MLA handbook.

Get the advice you need. This edition also contains useful advice on finding sources, compiling notes, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting properly, and avoiding plagiarism.

Some of what you'll find:

* The latest guidelines that incorporate several major changes from the new MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Seventh Edition (2009)
* How to find the best sources for your research
* Best ways to compile sources and take notes
* Questions to ask when evaluating print and online sources
* Advice on how to weave quotations properly into the body of a paper
* Examples of how to cite sources in the text
* Over 100 sample entries most often found in a list of works cited
* Proper formatting of the research paper and the list of works cited
* A list of MLA abbreviations
Country USA
Manufacturer Coyote Canyon Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-05-27
Format Kindle eBook

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