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Formatting Your Research Project

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How do I format a quotation of song lyrics?

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Transitioning to College Writing: A Discussion among Educators

How Publishing Work as a Student Shaped My College Writing Experience

Reading Is Not One Thing

Using Social Justice Projects to Teach High School Writing

Student Accountability, Google Docs, and Digital Peer Review

Supporting Students in the Transition from High School to College Writing

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Descriptions Used as Titles of Persons

Understanding Back-Formations: Established Expressions or Curious Coinages?

Parts of the Whole: Using Comprise and Compose

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To Affect or Effect—to What Effect?

Sports Terms in MLA Style

Chess Terms in MLA Style

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How do I cite a work accessed through Wayback Machine?

Wayback Machine is an archive of websites that lives on the Internet Archive’s site, so you would treat the Internet Archive as the container of… Read More

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How do I style the title of a fairy tale?

Fairy tales are typically enclosed in quotation marks, in the style of other short-form works. Some people may not know that Disney’s 1989 film The… Read More

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How do I cite an anonymously translated poem?

If a translator’s name is not provided in the source, then skip that element in your works-cited-list entry. Follow the MLA template of core elements,… Read More

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