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How do I cite a map?

Maps appear as stand-alone print works, as images in books or websites, and as functional independent websites or parts of websites. As with any work,… Read More

Advice from the Editors

When a Preposition Wrongly Replaces a Conjunction

by Michael Simon

Writers sometimes wrongly use a preposition to join the nouns in a compound subject Read More

Teaching Resources

Real-Life versus Digital Sources: Documenting a Museum Visit

by Nora Carr

Covers visual and textual sources encountered firsthand and online Read More

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The Source Archive

Below, you can find copies of previous issues of The Source, our email newsletter all about MLA style. Sign up at the bottom of the… Read More

Teaching Resources

Teaching the Popular Literature of Nineteenth-Century France

by Masha Belenky and Anne O’Neil-Henry

A post about the creation of an anthology on nineteenth-century popular literature from France Read More

Teaching Resources

Video Essay Analysis and Composition

by Michael J. Berntsen

A lesson on how people argue in multimodal environments Read More

Advice from the Editors

The Fused Participle; or, What’s Wrong with Me Writing This Title?

by Joseph Wallace

This post explains what a fused participle is and how to fix it Read More

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Why do periods and commas go inside quotation marks in MLA style?

The MLA Handbook notes, “By convention, commas and periods that directly follow quotations go inside the closing quotation marks” (267). Thus, in the following sentence, the comma… Read More

Advice from the Editors