Scholarly Practices in the Classroom

by Livia Arndal Woods

This semester, I am teaching a course in which we are test-driving the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook and working to shift from a… Read More

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

Video Essay Analysis and Composition

by Michael J. Berntsen

A lesson on how people argue in multimodal environments Read More

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

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

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

Citing Artifacts in a Digital Archive

by Angela Gibson

Get tips for citing work in a digital archive . . . Read More

Addressing Misconceptions about Plagiarism in Writing by L2 Writers

by Lan Wang-Hiles

Educators should explain to L2 writers the meaning of plagiarism in Western academia Read More

Thinking as a Writer: Analyzing Rhetorical Situations through Authentic Writing

by Mary Ann Parker and Josh Green

A lesson on analyzing rhetorical situations Read More

A Century of Queer Korean Fiction: An Interview with Samuel Perry

by Samuel Perry

Read an interview with the editor and translator of A Century of Queer Korean Fiction. Read More