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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

Teaching Resources

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

by Ellen C. Carillo

Contribute to the survey for the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd edition Read More

Teaching Resources

Integrating Quotations in Research Writing: A Lesson for College Students

by Andrew Shipe

A lesson for college students on incorporating quotations Read More

Advice from the Editors

Cleft Sentences; or, How to Foreground Frightening Felines

by Susan Doose

Learn about the construction and use of cleft sentences Read More

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

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

Cleft Sentences; or, How to Foreground Frightening Felines

On Editing Your Own Writing: Some Advice

A Closer Look at MLA Style

The Case of the Missing Referent; or, Keeping Pronouns in Line

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

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How do I cite a survey or quiz that I took?

You may want to cite a survey or quiz if you are quoting its questions or description in your paper. How you cite the survey… Read More

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How do I credit myself as the author of a photograph?

How you credit yourself as the author of a photograph depends on the accessibility of the photograph. If your paper discusses a photograph that is… 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If you are citing a contract as a historical document, follow the MLA guidelines for citing digital or physical archives.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