The MLA Style Center is the only authorized website on MLA style. A companion 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 hundreds of citation examples, a blog of writing tips, guidelines for formatting a paper and avoiding plagiarism, sample papers, lesson plans, worksheets, and other classroom resources submitted by users. Additional teaching resources are added periodically.
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About the MLA
The Modern Language Association (mla.org) is the creator of the MLA Handbook, a publication now in its ninth edition, which for almost fifty years has helped writers produce credible research projects and clear prose.
As an organization representing language and literature researchers and teachers, the MLA advocates humanities education and provides opportunities for its members to share their research and teaching experiences with colleagues. MLA members sustain one of the finest publications programs in the humanities, and books in the MLA Guides series, such as the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, have been widely adopted for classroom instruction.