No. You generally only need to provide a citation if you mention a character’s name in a summary of the work (or portions of it)… Read More
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No. You do not need to mention an author’s name in your prose before citing the author in a parenthetical citation. Surnames alone are used… Read More
The Modern Language Association seeks submissions from students of exemplary research papers written in MLA style for publication in “Writing with MLA Style,” a collection… Read More
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Quotations are frequently misattributed to famous people. This post examines five common examples. Read More
Do not routinely capitalize the names of dog breeds. Many breed names are composed of proper nouns that you capitalize and generic terms (like retriever… Read More