When a trilogy is published in one volume with a title of its own, the course of action is clear: italicize the title of the trilogy as if it were a work. Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy, containing the novels Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, is an example. So are Ursula K. . . .
Published 12 September 2017
It depends on the focus of your work. In a dissertation on a single author or title—say, Gabriel Marcel’s Being and Having: An Existentialist Diary—it would be overkill to introduce the author and full title of the work anew in each chapter. References to the author’s last name and a shortened title are sufficient. But . . .
Published 12 September 2017
Ungraded assignment that prepares students to create an annotated bibliography in Spanish; includes an optional research component
Published 17 May 2017
Graded assignment that prepares students to create an annotated bibliography in Spanish; includes an optional research component
Published 17 May 2017
Yes. As the MLA Handbook explains, the title of an independent work (that is, a work that usually stands alone, such as a play, novel, or artwork) is styled in italics, even when the work is contained in another independent work (27): Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. The Riverside Shakespeare, edited by G. Blakemore Evans et al., . . .
Published 3 May 2017
Learn how to handle titles with tricky punctuation.
Published 3 May 2017
Learn how to document legal works in MLA style with our comprehensive guidelines . . .
Published 5 April 2017
When you alphabetize your works-cited list, treat numbers in titles as though they were spelled out. Let’s say, for example, you need to alphabetize entries for George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, along with two entries for lyrics to songs by Radiohead thought to be inspired by Orwell’s novels, “2 + 2 = 5” and . . .
Published 18 October 2016
The MLA template of core elements calls for a period after the title of a source, but if the title of a source ends in a question mark or exclamation point, do not include a period. Question marks or exclamation points, as stronger marks, always supersede a period: Albee, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . . .
Published 11 October 2016
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Published 5 October 2016
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