Rivers and Ladders and Bad Breaks, Oh My!
Checking page proofs involves identifying problems introduced in the typesetting process Read More
Checking page proofs involves identifying problems introduced in the typesetting process Read More
Publishers practices vary. On the MLA’s Web sites, when linked text is distinguished with color and underlining, the MLA does not link the punctuation—including quotation… Read More
Normally, when you quote from a source, your reader is to assume that any styling, such as italics or punctuation in the quotation, is in… Read More
No. Since hyphens are not needed to prevent misreading, we recommend that they be omitted. Read more about how the MLA treats mid compounds. … Read More
Unless a place name is at the end of a sentence and followed by sentence-ending punctuation, whenever you list a city and a state or… Read More
Learn when to separate a subject and verb with a comma Read More
Learn when to insert a comma before a phrase or clause that begins with because Read More
Semicolons should be used before coordinating conjunctions—that is, terms such as and, or, and but joining independent clauses—when the clauses are long and have internal punctuation, as… Read More
As the MLA Handbook (sec. 1.5) explains, when writing dates, you should “be consistent in your use of either the day-month-year style (12 January 2014) or the… Read More
MLA style hyphens grade levels in adjective form but not in noun form: a third-grade student, a student in third grade, a third grader. Read… Read More