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MLA Handbook Plus is a new, subscription-based digital product providing online access to the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook. To learn more about MLA Handbook… Read More

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MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd Edition: An Interview with the Author

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Integrating Quotations in Research Writing: A Lesson for College Students

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Using an Endnote to Provide Bibliographic Information

by Barney Latimer

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Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto’s Sphinx: A Neo-Gothic Novel from Brazil: An Interview with M. Elizabeth Ginway

A Reflection on Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities on Its Twentieth Anniversary

MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd Edition: An Interview with the Author

Teaching Claire de Duras’s Ourika

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Teaching the Popular Literature of Nineteenth-Century France

Considering Audience through Search Engine Optimization

Using an Endnote to Provide Bibliographic Information

The Limits of Fidelity: What to Reproduce (and What Not to Reproduce) in a Quotation

Pointing Out Reasons with As, Since, For, and Because

The Rhyme without the Reason: What’s Wrong with Sneak Peak

Distinguishing Tropes, Figures, Themes, and Motifs

Celebrating the Oscars—the MLA Way

Descriptions Used as Titles of Persons

Understanding Back-Formations: Established Expressions or Curious Coinages?

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Where should the original author’s name appear when citing indirect sources?

When citing indirect sources, the name of the author of the original quotation can appear in the prose, in the in-text citation, or in an… Read More

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How do I represent an author’s name that is partly illegible in the source?

If an author’s name is partly illegible in the source, and you do not know the name, then in your works-cited-list entry you may type… Read More

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Should I use roman or arabic numerals to paginate the front matter in my dissertation?

Although publishers paginate front matter using roman numerals, your dissertation need not use them unless they are required by your institution’s guidelines for formatting dissertations. Read More