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What is MLA?

Modern Language Association (1883)

Style most commonly used to write papers and cite sources wit

and humanities Foundation for other styles such as APA

Not every source type has a formula in APA; therefore, mustknowledge

Specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the E

language in writing

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MLA Basics Use Times New Roman size 12 font, double space throughout, flush

left, paperclip left corner (I have a cat problem, please staple)

In header, Last name and page number in upper right cornerbeginning with page 1

Flush left, your name, instructors name, class, date (militarystyledate month year)

Center title (do not bold, underline, or italicize. Do apply standardrules of capitalization)

Indent each paragraph

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Avoiding Plagiarism

Any summary, paraphrase, or quotation used in a paper MUST bedocumented

Exemptions include the following: Common knowledge

Disney theme parks attract thousands of visitors annually

Your own conclusions

Facts found in many sources

Shakespeares death

Standard terms

Mouse, CD-ROM, download

If ever unsure, document source

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57-4 Avoiding Plagiarism

1. The sheer number of occasions on which people cryin The Wizard of Ozis astounding.

Plagiarized.Why?

The student uses language borrowed from the originasource without quotation marks and withoutcrediting the author. The following is an acceptablerevision:

Rushdie points out that the sheer number of occasioon which people cry in The Wizard of Oz isastounding (223).

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2. Rushdie notes that so many characters cry in TheWizard of Ozthat its surprising the Wicked Witch dnot get wet and melt away earlier in the film (223-24).

Ok.

Why?

The student has paraphrased without using language structure from the source. The student also cites thauthors name and gives the page numbers for thesource in parentheses.

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3. Rushdie points out the number of characters who weep inWizard of Oz: Dorothy cries tears of frustration before beallowed to enter the Wizards palace, the guard at the pal

becomes sodden with tears, the Cowardly Lion cries whenDorothy hits him on the nose, the Tin Man nearly rusts upagain from crying, and Dorothy cries again when capturedthe Witch (223).

Plagiarized.

Why?

The student has borrowed words from the source withoutputting them in quotation marks (tears of frustration, sodwith tears, rusts up again) and has plugged in synonyms foother language from the source (cries/bawls, hits/bops).

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4. Pointing out how many times characters cry in TheWizard of Oz, Rushdie observes that if the hydrophoWitch could only have been closer at hand on one of toccasions the movie might have been much shorter (24).

Ok.

Why?

The student has correctly placed borrowed language inquotation marks and given the authors name and thepage numbers on which the quotation can be found.

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5. Rushdie notes that Dorothys weeping makes othercharacters cry, as when her tears undam a quite alarreservoir of liquid from the guard in an extremeperformance outside the Wizards palace (223).

Plagiarized.

Why?

The student has used the words extreme performancefthe source without putting them in quotation marks.

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Integrating Sources

Attributive tag signal the author before the information

Ellen Goodman offers this further observation about writers whformulas for achieving success through selfishness: They are a

Feelgoods, offering placebo prescriptions instead of strong medgive us a way to life with ourselves, perhaps, but not a way to lother (16).

Or use a regular in-text parenthetical

The author offers this further observation about writers who pe

formulas for achieving success through selfishness: They are aFeelgoods, offering placebo prescriptions instead of strong medgive us a way to life with ourselves, perhaps, but not a way to lother (Goodman 16).

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Integrating Sources

Block quotations

quotations 5 lines or more must be double indented

Have a complete sentence before the quote Do not use quotation marks

Barbara Tuchmans Proud Towerpresents a somewhat different vinew conservative leaders:

Besides riches, rank broad acres, and ancient lineage, th

government also possessed, to the regret of the liberal oand in the words of one of them, an almost embarrassintalent and capacity. Secure in authority, resting comfortheir electoral majority in the House of Commons and onpermanent majority in the House of Lords, of whom fouconservatives, they were in a position, admitted the sam

of unassailable strength. (4).

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Integrating Sources Avoid freestanding quotat

Freestanding quotation

Riena Gross is a chief psychiatric social worker at Illinois MedicaChicago. Kids have no real sense that they belong anywhere o

as they did ten or fifteen years ago. Parents have loosened the kids are kind of floundering (Gross 74).

Integrate quote into sentence to create flow

Addressing a seminar at the University of Toronto, Dr. Joseph Pospeculated that acupuncture may work by activating a neural psuppression mechanism in the brain (324).

The report further stated, All great writing styles have their wthe personality of the writer. As Buffon said, The style is the m(Duncan 49).

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58-3 Integrating sources

1.Malcolm Gladwell points out that drivers feel safer in aSUV than in a sports car because they think that the Sdrivers chances of surviving a collision with ahypothetical tractor-trailer in the other lane are great(31).

Ok.

Explanation:

The student has put quotation marks around the exactwords from the source and has handled the MLA citatcorrectly, putting the name of the author in a signalphrase and the page number in parentheses.

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2. Gladwell argues that active safety is every bit as importaas a vehicles ability to withstand a collision (31).

The sentence is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The phrase active safetyis enclosed in quotation marks in tsource; single quotation marks are required for a quotatiwithin a quotation. In addition, the student has failed to

an ellipsis mark to indicate that the word whichis omittefrom the quotation. The following is an acceptable revisi

Gladwell argues that active safetyis every bit as importaas a vehicles ability to withstand a collision (31).

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3. A majority of drivers can, indeed, be wrong. Most ofthink that S.U.V.s are much safer than sports cars(Gladwell 31).

This passage is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The second sentence is a dropped quotation. Quotationshould be introduced with a signal phrase, usually na

the author. The following is an acceptable revision:

A majority of drivers can, indeed, be wrong. As MalcolmGladwellpoints out, Most of us think that S.U.V.s armuch safer than sports cars (31).

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4. According to Gladwell, American SUVs are more likelybe involved in collisions than other vehicles because[they] cant get out of the way in time (31).

Ok.

Explanation:

The student has introduced the quotation with a signalphrase and used brackets to indicate the change from

to theyfit the grammar of the sentence.

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5. Gladwell explains that most people expect an SUV tosurvive a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailer inother lane (31).

This sentence is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The student has changed the wording of the source (ofsurviving) to fit the grammar of the sentence (to surv

but has not indicated the change with brackets. Thefollowing is an acceptable revision:

Gladwell explains that most people expect an SUV [tosurvive] a collision with a hypothetical tractor-traile

the other lane (31).

A i i i ( l & ib i )

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MLA in-text citations (regular & attributive tag)

The student is quoting from page 187 of the following essay:

Perez-Torres, Rafael. Between Presence and Absence: Beloved,Postmodernism, and Blackness. Tony Morrisons Beloved:A Ca

William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Oxford UP, 201. Print.

What would the in-text citation (parenthetical) look like for this q

Amy describes the scars on Sethesback as a tree, which, as sugge

Rafael Perez-Torres, transforms the signs of slaveryinto an imaginstead of oppression (187).

In-text citations (parentheticals) must include the authors last word of title and the page number

(Stanko 7)

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59-1 In-text citations

2.

B. Drugs classified as Schedule I by the Drug

Enforcement Administration are illegal, even formedical purposes, but they are allowed inauthorized experiments (Henninfield and Ator 63).

Explanation:

When a work has two or three authors, all authors

must be named either in a signal phrase or in theparenthetical citation.

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3.

B. Nearly half of 1,035 oncologists surveyed in 1991

said that if smokable marijuana were legal for cancerpatients, they would prescribe it (Cross-Eyed 89).

Explanation:

When the author of an article is unknown, a short formof the title is given in the parenthetical citation.

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4.

A. Marshall explains that marijuana can be dangerous fo

people with heart conditions because its use candramatically increase heart rate and blood pressure(Legalization 79).

Explanation:

A short form of the title of the work appears in the

parenthetical citation because two works by Marshalgiven in the works cited list.

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5.

B. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has allowedmarijuana to be used in experiments with patients suffering

from glaucoma. According to one expert, Several studiessince 1971 have shown that smoking marijuana causes thepressure within the eye to decrease and to remain at alowered level for about five hours (Marshall, Legalization67).

Explanation:The authors name is not given in the signal phrase (According

to one expert)so it appears in the parenthetical citationalong with a short form of the title of the work and the pagenumber on which the quotation may be found.


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6.

A. The Drug Enforcement Administration of the US Departmentof Justice reports that marijuana use among young people

aged twelve to seventeen in the United States nearlydoubled in the 1990s from 4.3% to 8.3%.

Explanation:

For an unpaginated online source, a signal phrase giving theauthor of the source is sufficient. The abbreviation n.

pag.isnot necessary.


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7.

A. According to a report by the United States JusticeDepartments Drug Enforcement Administration, marijuana in

the 1990s was about five times more potent than themarijuana of the 1960s.

Explanation:

The signal phrase gives the complete name of the author of thesource, in this case a government agency. If the student uses

a parenthetical citation, it must include the complete nameunder which the work is given in the list of works cited:(United States, Dept. of Justice, Drug EnforcementAdministration).


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8.

A. I consider this [alleviating acute pain and nausea] a needthat has to be filled, says Rabbi Isaac P. Fried of New York of

his administration of marijuana to suffering patients. ShouldI buckle under the fear of an archaic law that doesnt dealwith the present needs of the 1990s? (qtd. In Treaster 38).

Explanation:

When a source is quoted in another source, MLA style requires

the abbreviation qtd. in (for quoted in).


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9.

B. Brian Hecht sums up the debate over the medical use ofmarijuana in three questions: (1) Is the drug safe? (2) does it

work? And (3) How does it compare with other availabledrugs? (8).

Explanation:

Because the question mark is in the original source, it appearsinside the quotation mark and before the parenthetical

citation. A period follows the parentheses.


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10.

A. Fiona A. Campbell et al. present the results of scientific studieon the effectiveness and safety of using marijuana for medical

purposes.

Explanation:

In MLA style for a work with more than three authors, the in-texcitation matches the entry in the list of works cited. In thiscate, et al. appears after the first authors name.

Alternatively, the student could use all the authors names inthe works cited list and the in-text citation.

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For Thursday...

Complete these exercises:

Exercise 57-5

Exercise 58-4

Exercise 59-2

DO NOT DO Exercise 59-6

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