. . . help them start a draft. Course Work or Assignment Underway Students have completed an annotated bibliography and are preparing to write an essay supported by evidence from research . . .
Get started with MLA style. Learn how to document sources, set up your paper, and improve your teaching and writing. Document Sources Works Cited Quick Guide Learn how to use the MLA format template. Digital Citation Tool Build citations with our . . .
. . . The only official Web site devoted to MLA style, it provides the opportunity to submit your own questions insights about MLA style from the MLA’s editors sample research papers instructions on formatting research papers teaching resources tools for creating works-cited-list entries List Items Punctuated like a Sentence In formal contexts, you may . . .
Lesson Plan Grade Level Undergraduate Objective Students will incorporate quotations and paraphrases smoothly in their research paper . . .
. . . to the MLA Handbook, the site provides students and educators with a host of free resources for teaching and learning the MLA’s approach to research, writing, and documentation. It offers a quick guide to citing any source according to the MLA format template, a practice template, a Q&A feature with . . .
. . . a play) a new, easy-to-follow explanation of in-text citations a new chapter containing recommendations for using inclusive language a new appendix with hundreds of sample works-cited-list entries listed by publication format, including books, databases, websites, YouTube videos, interviews, and more updated guidelines on avoiding plagiarism a new chapter . . .
. . . we needed to support faculty members in making this transition. We also wanted to shift to a project-based-learning approach in our introductory course on writing research papers. After looking at different genres, projects, and platforms, we settled on a social media project. Grade Level First-year composition Objective Over the course of a . . .
. . . Outcome Students will recognize that to effectively paraphrase from their source material they must comprehend what they have read. Course Work or Assignment Underway Students are conducting research and making notes of what they might use as sources in their own writing. Work Completed before Class Previous classes will have introduced students to types of . . .
. . . feedback on student writing. As writing classes moved online in the late 1990s and into the twenty-first century, providing feedback often involved typing comments into a paper and posting the paper to the learning management system of the class. Instructors of online classes do not generally hold in-person office hours and have no . . .
The following essays, which won the 2019 MLA Student Paper Contest, provide models for organizing an argument and working with sources. They also demonstrate MLA documentation style and paper formatting. For more details, consult the MLA’s . . .
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