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MLA

MLA. Heading and Title. Last name and page number in your running head Aligned on the right side Last Name Teacher Name Class Name and Hour Date: 16 September 2011 All aligned on the left hand side of the paper. Quotations.

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  1. MLA

  2. Heading and Title • Last name and page number in your running head • Aligned on the right side • Last Name • Teacher Name • Class Name and Hour • Date: 16 September 2011 • All aligned on the left hand side of the paper

  3. Quotations • To indicate short quotations (fewer than four typed lines) in your text, enclose the quotation within double quotation marks • Provide the author and specific page citation in the text, and include a complete reference on the Works Cited page

  4. Quotations • Punctuation marks such as periods, commas, and semicolons should appear after the parenthetical citation • Question marks and exclamation points should appear within the quotation marks if they are a part of the quoted passage but after the parenthetical citation if they are a part of your text

  5. Adding and subtracting words from quotations • If you add a word or words in a quotation, you should put brackets around the words to indicate that they are not part of the original text • If you omit a word or words from a quotation, you should indicate the deleted word or words by using ellipsis marks, which are three periods

  6. Examples • The chief becomes fearful when he realizes that “there is no real hope against her or the combine" (Kesey 101). • He claimed he could provide “hundred of examples [of court decisions] to illustrate the tension between church and state” (Bradford 11). • The turning point of the novel occurs when “that big red hand of McMurphy’s is reaching into the fog . . . Dragging them blinking into the open" (Kesey124).

  7. How to quote a quote • If you are going to quote dialogue in the book, you must use an additional quotation mark to indicate that you are quoting a preexisting quote • ‘“Back to sleep now, MistuhBromden’ Mr. Turkle mutters” (Kesey 84). • “‘Chief, you’re our last bet”’ (Kesey 126).

  8. Works Cited Page • Begins on a new page • Center the title Works Cited at the top of the page • Reverse the author’s name so the last name is first. • Indent additional lines (hanging indent) • The title of the book- underlined • Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Gilman, Sander. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

  9. Works Cited Example • Author Last name, Author First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York, NY: Penguin Group Inc., 1963.

  10. The OWL at Purdue • Google “MLA” • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

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