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okay hello welcome to this writing rescue presentation. Today we are going to talk
about how to format
an MLA research paper
so we're gonna jump right in here
and what is MLA format? Well MLA stands for the modern language
association
and its most commonly going to be used in your english classes, especially in your first
two years of college
um... that's gonna like i said english class so language and literature
on the deals if you're in communication you're gonna use this format
and also in philosophy and religion
so what MLA deals with or what it includes is that overall look of your
paper
on how you wanna structure it
and how you want to present the information and that includes intext
citations
and the works cited page
now incase you are familiar with MLA and you just wanna know about the
updates we are going to jump right off with that
and so what you can see i think the most common mistake people make when they
haven't done MLA in a while is they underline things like titles
well now we wanna use
just italics
no underlining anything and that's only for a larger works like books
or a names of journals
also
we need to identify
that medium of publication
that just means that if you've got a print copy, a hard copy,
then you're just gotta write prints
and if you found it online, accessed it online e and then you're just gonna write
web
just in the end there.
And finally... we use abbreviations now
when there's no information provided
for instance if you need to have a publisher but no publisher was given
then you're just gonna write N and p
in here
if there's no date given you're gonna write N.d.
just those things-abbreviations for no publisher and inferno publisher
no date. But just be aware if you see that then maybe want to take a closer
look at the actual piece of information that you're using.
So, moving right along.
So when you get started, getting started, you just wanna make sure that your
font is a twelve-point times new roman
and then just set everything to double space
and then in your margins you're going to want everything to be one inch which
isn't a big deal because as soon as you open up a Word
that's the default settings so you'll already be there.
And then finally
you're gonna have a header on every page in that's going to consiste of
your last name
and then a simple page number
and we'll take a closer look at that on the next slide.
So here, right away you can see
that there's just the last name and a page number
notice that there's no p, no dot, there's no abbreviation here it's just
simply the last name
and then just one.
Over in the corner here this is another very important feature of MLA format.
You're just gonna have in your
upper right-hand
actually that's the left-hand, sorry
There, you're just gonna have your name your professors name and then your
course, English 106, maybe for you that english 102 or philosophy
201
and then here finally the date, very important, this should always be the due date
notice that there's no slashes, no dashes,
is just the day
the month and then a year- that's all you need to know for that.
So looking at this, you can see the margins are all set the way that you
want to be see the times new roman everything appears doubled spaced
so just
just keep that in mind
so just uh...
take a closer look at that first page like i've already mentioned you won't
have your first and last name the professor's name
the class the assignment in the due date
and all that would be off to the site in the upper lefthand corner
but then with the title
you're just gonna write the title morals just there's not gonna be any
all there's really no italics nothing different than the rest of your paper
and it's just gonna be set off despite one
one one line
and if there's that there's a
you can see that closer leaders of here
everything that i sense of pride a little clear with the picture here
this is that
we've discussed that you needed here you can see clearly that is just johnson
and the one
but this is really what i want to notice right now the title the title here has
it's not underlined it's not capital it's not overly capitalize just normal
title capitalized
uh... it's not ball that it's not like alex is nothing funny about it
there's also just
you just hit enter once when you have to do that so there's no extra spacing
no extra spacing and either of these areas just
selling are going to move on to intact citations
the basic seven tests tech citations
why do you think excitations
the biggest reason that we use and excitations is just to give credit to
whoever's work we're using it's not your work so
you want to catch yourself from plagiarism
they were first back to directly back to the works cited page
and uh...
finally
the way that we cite things as with something called parenthetical citations
the only reason we use parenthetical citations it's just because it set off
in parentheses see hear the word there parenthetical parentheses
all rights
so uh...
and don't worry about that we are going to get
much more and really a very deep into that just a second so before we do that
though let's talk about quoting
versus paraphrasing
so quoting
is that when you take the words directly you can see here's its director words
and then you're gonna have quotation marks
around that outside information
when you care phrasing teaching some of the works
on the to maintain the main idea and you are gonna need to you'd only
you don't need any quotation marks for that
but you need the site both situations
so here's where really get into the society for a nap
format a quotation
so you can see here that we just have
we open up with the quotation marks here
we have the complete quote word for word nothing changed
and we close the quotations
i want to point out that here we use a comma not appear yet
and then we have infers doctor brown
and then finally
just the last name page number
in parentheses
at the notice that the purest comes
not at the end of the sense where we might think you would go
but actually right here
so again i'm in this example
we have something
we had to sign a little even up here that's kind of getting us to wear
to the point where we have that
again
word for word we see that quotation marks the close the quotation marks
there's not there's no
com others no puri and there's nothing
so there's nothing there and static goes here
okay so notice the two different cases
in this case this first case
we added the common because the comma appeared in the original tax
now in the second case
there was no common the original tax there probably was appeared it
we don't add period inside a quotation marks we put them
outside of the parent medical citation
and then here is just
an example
uh... paraphrase
so this is paraphrase from some some book
we put it in our own words
but you still see
the parenthetical sets error that the other parenthetical citation
let's move on
so this is just talking about different situations of citing
if you find that you have a citation with no author
then
you're just anything then you're just gonna look for the um... agency that
produce the information
a lot of times when you're looking at
specific information or first first-hand information something like a statistic
or maybe a table at something like that or armenians experiments
one of the government's
or a scientific group would have uh...
back that so it wouldn't be done by just one person
so in this case we have the the british management company
so we have
british here we've abbreviated as biar i_t_t_ for british
management and then this would be association eighty s f and period is
just
become an abbreviation for that
and then we have the seventy
inherent radicals uh... in parentheses
so just know that this period is only there
to show that this
a half staff as an abbreviation
if that was not if that were not an abbreviation we wouldn't have the period
there shouldn't be anything that separates the two
and then
we have a situation where there's no corporation or agency
so in this sort of situation we just use a shortened title so here we have agent
rating
so just go with that you'd wanna use the author's name if it's there if not find
uh... fine the company or agency that sponsor this information
and he can't find that
thing i want to go with the title
seven what's the difference when we do u of web source
twenty-year just one thing that you really want to know
is you don't wanna use page numbers if your speaker citing from the web
the reason why is because the pages are
uh... what we call stable
uh... if it's just a basic web page and i printed out depending on how my
printer is
or depending on how it's formatted
page one for me may not be the same thing as page one for you
the only case when there's an exception is if you're looking at
something wikipedia
where the numbers are always going to be the same
or just an electronic copy of a book where it's still going to be the same
kind of situation
if you're dealing with something that has no single page a nation
indo added page numbers don't add anything
if you're dealing with something that does have a stable page ination
that's when you and i want to go ahead and use that page number
when you have multiple authors in a text
is another situation that comes up pretty often
you can see here that if there's
two to three authors
than what you wanna do as you wanna mentioned both of their names like kiwi
have mcevoy and turner
seventy three
that's two to three if there were three people if they were mcevoy turner and
jones you have to name are bound to happen
and then finally uh... are if you have more than four then you can use this
phrase
at all you can just in the first one at all p area 'cause that's an abbreviation
and in the page number
and ours is the land term it means and others
and just about a play out this bit about the signal phrase here
okay just pay attention to that that's going to come up
in just a second
so when we have on the same names this is another situation that may pop up
from time to time
so i think first we'll go ahead and talk about the signal phrase here so here we
have the in james mcevoy is
this is a signal phrases just giving us information
about the off there before we actually get into the quotes very useful tool
it can help by sort of bridge the gap between what you have to say what
somebody else has to say
in this case there's two or more authors
i'm with the same last name in that signal phrase if you're mentioning the
author in that signal phrase
then you want to use
the home that you want to go and see this one's jeans
james mcevoy
now in the second example
here
uh... i didn't mention him
in that sign-off race i have to mention in my parents at a cost citation
agis use the initial
j dot mcevoy
also notice here since i use the name
in the signal phrase i don't have to repeat it in my parent radical citation
here i'm just using the page number
here i'm using the hall main and the page number
and next year
anytime you sake the author and your signal phrase
so this is another situation that may occur but it doesn't pop pop pop up as
often
and that's when you have not two or more works by the same author
so what in this case what you have to do is you just wanna
designate which what u work that you're talking about
uh... index sign-off race
in the article grasshoppers
you see it there
and then we have uh... information that we wanna
talk about
and then we just have the last name in page number
hasn't like it's normal
in this case again we don't have the name of the article in the signal phrase
so here intention to this for this is one of those things where the structure
kind of changes in that parenthetical citation
we had the last name
we have a comma
and then we have the name of the article and we can assume it's an article
because it's in quotations
and then just out
page number that we found it
okay black quotes blockquote is a very important topic a lot of people art
become very confused about how these work
so one of the biggest things about the black with that and just simply not
right off the bat is that um...
they actually almost look like a whole new paragraph
and you can see here
that we have
unit burton lead up to this black what you don't just want to start a pair
effort the black caucus in your reader have no idea really what you're talking
about
so you have your reading sentences
alibi
just the colin okay
now this too
be a little bit confusing you're gonna see an actual example but i want to
clarify the call is is that that that
in snap the proceeds
you're gonna be gin the whole quotation on a completely new line
and then you're gonna uh...
use the tax you invented it needs to be ten spaces left of the margin
that's just one tap on your computer
and then finally when you finish your site when you're when you finish that
blackwell
you're gonna clear going out on pch is closed so you can add the print that
across citation after the clothing uh...
after that closing punctuation mark
so you're gonna see that i'll make sure the point that out and no quotation
marks are years and i just wanna make sure that i say that you know if
something's a blockquote
if it takes four up more than four lines in your in your paper
that's when you need to use a blackwell
okay so here's the example
we have our leading here
and then we have our uh... colin you can see is just the dot that no parentheses
around that
and it everything
and rescinded send acted everything that's holding what
okay
and then another thing you want to know this is where the peery it is here
in this case
we have the perience
going at the end of the sentence
just like normal
and then we have our parenthetical citation
except there's no period here
no hearing it comes to the rate that they're new
old period that's one of those easy things the get ron
and then we just move right back into our discourse a kind of some everything
up so
still a part of the same paragraph don't go in and and dentists again c table and
cut
okay now finally you've gone through the whole body inures at your work cited
page that is part
thank goodness should be easy writers are documenting all that stuff and i
have to do now is just go back and get it in order
so just like the title of your original body paragraph
you're just gonna have the works cited title like normal
just like normal do not
put it in italics noble now up quotation marks don't bold etc
just normal
and then i'm going to have all your citations listed alphabetically
according to the author's last name
if you're using a government agency
or short title
and put that in not
put that in alphabetical order as well
and then just like the rest your paper you wanna double space
here's our example
so you can see uh... this part is just my title here so this is actually read
start
this is the title there's no extra spacing here
here we have
just the last name
comma
first name
everything should be inverted lassen comma first name
and they noticed that this is flash all the way to the left margin
in this park it's invented so it's sort of a reverse invent of uh... of how you
would do a paragraph
this is called hanging indentation
suggesting that's that use a thing to get ron make sure that you're doing that
in the correct way
so you can see everything here is just gonna be in alphabetical order and have
a name
title i have another name still in alphabetical order
so let's get a little take a closer look at what you need when you're actually
creating your citation at the end of the paper
the most basic what actually love these books and the reason i want to use books
because they're the easiest it site him so
on the rehab at
i'd just like you to notice here that last name comma firstname you see it up
here last name comma firstname with the title of the book
again in italics not underlines
and then you have the place a publication colon
and then other publisher
and in the year a publication
and then just member that that out
where you got that prints that's prints
of ten
now what would you do if it were
if you have multiple authors in this case
well it's sort of the same is how you were doing intact citation
on you just have that lastname firstname of the first one
and and then pollyanna nelson so notice here that uh... the first offer that you
mention goes in the last name come up firstname but then everything every name
that comes after that is just normal as just pollyanna nelson
nothing different there than how you would rate it
normally
and that's for three yr two or three
when she gets you four or more office think it's you
don't have to read all those names
you can use that at all
which again is latin for and others
notice that everything else in this book is we just need the exact same
information as we need to be for just notice a difference in how we got sent
the authors
this is what we're doing for your looking at a magazine article
or some sort of periodical
in this case again if we have the lastname firstname that's something that
you're gonna see pretty consistently
and they noticed we have our shortened title the title all of the article
it's in those quotation marks
and then the good housekeeping it's a bigger work so you already know that
that should be in italics the difference between a book in a periodical
is you need to have the date here you need to have not just the publishing
date you actually the date that it was released
and then the pages that you use
the pages that the article appeared
now remember this is only if it's a hard copy or if it's stable
if not don't you really can add that
but then you just this is a print version so of course those page numbers
are going to be stable
okay miscarriage on almost any time you look at a skyway journal
on they're going to be from the web
by i they're usually will comment e_d_s_ so it's it's very similar to how you
would do
just a magazine article
you see that lastname firstname again uh... the title of the article on the
quotation marks
the name of the journal it came out of
and italics
here we have actually the um...
the issue where the volume number i'm sorry lot of times the academic journals
come out and volume so you are gonna lie include that that's the difference
between this in a regular magazine
and in the year was published okay
again we see the page this one came off the west most of yours well
when you have a website anything from the web you need to include your
personal data back sets that comes after the medium of publication
alright some basic web document this is the very similar to what we saw before
here you just want that last name of the author just the same
lot of times though on the web you might not they might not give you a last name
so
if you don't have the last name for that that
the name of the author of any kind of go indeed look for an editor anti-matter
look for the compiler there's not that
then you look for the shortened title you notice going down that list again
um... document title will be an italic or i'm sorry
uh... quotations
and then are just the name of the site in this case b_b_c_ networks
and in the institution here to british news
and in here
every time you have a web page or web that web document
you really want to look for the last time it was updated
that's gonna be a good uh... agood
agood
just a good indicator that this is something that
you can and should use in a paper
again just to name a publication
and then
the day that you access
for film if you wanna site a film you can set a film i don't know if you know
that but films documentaries all that is fair game in a research project
here we just
pretty easy to we have the name of the film the title that's the title of the
film
and the ferry hit them
um... the director whomever the director was an anti performers
so does that were the stars not every person that was associ ated but who were
the stars who's building in that movie
and in the film artist studio that district that distributed it
here we have universal studios comma
without year it was released and then in this case in new york publication
misspelled
and a personal interview personal interviews are probably require the last
amount of information the least amount of information that is
all right so here we have the interviewees last name
the interviewee not you the pristine interview
lastname firstname
and then you just right here where we gonna write personal interview and the
date the interview took place you don't need to write your interview because if
it's a personal interview
beauty author of the paper
of course you are the one who did the interview
okay so this is been sort of uh... introduction to emily formats kind of a
brief introduction
a lot of students think that
constantly refer back
to the actual information
you can do that just by going online set howell purdue
they always have the most current updates available sometimes aldous
change little things
arms so you can just go to this website right right here
actually that's where we go and
pranav are complete handbook and you can do the same if you like
on you can also go here
and just check out the online research and documentation handbook handbook
there's a website for that
and of course you can always check our website
radio rating school craft that easy u slash trading for slash fellows
so thank you very much and hope that this helps clarify how to do emily
format
and happy writing