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What’s New in the Ninth Edition of the MLA Handbook (Spring 2021)

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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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Digital Literacy in “Post-Truth America”: An Interview

by Ellen Carillo

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Integrating Quotations in Research Writing: A Lesson for College Students

by Andrew Shipe

A lesson for college students on incorporating quotations Read More

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How do I cite a license or a contract?

If you are citing a contract as a historical document, follow the MLA guidelines for citing digital or physical archives. Read More

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

Teaching the Popular Literature of Nineteenth-Century France

Considering Audience through Search Engine Optimization

How to Apply Composition Techniques to a Cover Letter

Video Essay Analysis and Composition

Introducing Lateral Reading before Research

Hitting the Mark: On Placing Adverbs

Parallel Headings in Research Papers

One and Then the Other: Using Alternate and Alternative

It’s Alive—or Is It? Using the Relative Pronouns Who and That

Five Common Grammar Questions

Five Commonly Misattributed Quotations

Citing Material Posted on Social Media Platforms

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How do I cite a license or a contract?

If you are citing a contract as a historical document, follow the MLA guidelines for citing digital or physical archives. Read More

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How do I cite a quotation I include in a title or heading?

Quoted material must be attributed wherever it occurs. In your prose, this generally means including an in-text citation or endnote in due proximity to the… Read More

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Can I name an interviewee as the author of a collection of interviews?

MLA style names the interviewee as the author of individual interviews (see MLA Handbook, appendix 2). When your source is a collection of interviews of… Read More

What’s New in the Ninth Edition of the MLA Handbook (Spring 2021)

What is MLA Handbook Plus?

Digital Literacy in “Post-Truth America”: An Interview

Integrating Quotations in Research Writing: A Lesson for College Students

How do I cite a license or a contract?

Teaching Resources

Advice from the Editors

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How do I cite a license or a contract?

How do I cite a quotation I include in a title or heading?

Can I name an interviewee as the author of a collection of interviews?

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