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Student Guide to AI Literacy

This guide was written by participants of the Critical AI Literacy for Reading, Writing, and Languages Workshop, an initiative of the MLA-CCCC Task Force on… Read More

Sample Essays: Writing with MLA Style

Congratulations to the students whose essays were selected for the 2024 edition of Writing with MLA Style! Essays were selected as examples of excellent student… Read More

Formatting Your Research Project

To learn how to set up your research project in MLA format, visit our free sample chapter on MLA Handbook Plus, the only authorized subscription-based digital… Read More

Advice from the Editors

Latina/o, Latinx, Latine

by Anne Freeland

Read about the evolving usage of the terms Latino/a, Latinx, and Latine. Read More

A Century of Queer Korean Fiction: An Interview with Samuel Perry

Toward Educational Justice: An Interview with the Editors of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons

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

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Activist Rhetorics Today: An Interview

How and Why to Teach Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers: An Interview

Latina/o, Latinx, Latine

Bear versus Bare

Your and You’re: How to Tell Them Apart

Similar but Different: Using Compare with and Compare to

Forego versus Forgo

Was and Were with the Subjunctive

Their, There, and They’re: Learn the Difference

Attributive Nouns; or, Why There Is Sometimes No Apostrophe in Terms Such As Teachers Union

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When do I capitalize the first letter of a quotation?

Whether you capitalize the first letter of a quotation depends on how the quotation fits into your sentence. Capitalize the first letter of a quotation,… Read More

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How do I cite quotations from different pages of a work?

This post explains how to cite quotations from different pages of a work. Read More

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How do I cite a playlist?

Cite a playlist by following the MLA template of core elements. In the Title of Container element, include the name of the playlist surrounded in… Read More

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Student Guide to AI Literacy

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Formatting Your Research Project

Latina/o, Latinx, Latine

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Advice from the Editors

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When do I capitalize the first letter of a quotation?

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