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Title: MLA Format?
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 21, 2010, 02:47:39 PM

Not sure if this is in the right section or not.

Anyway, does anyone here know where I can find articles or screenshots of articles done in MLA Format? I am having a hard time putting an essay of mine in that format. I think I got most of it down; the only thing left is how to put in citations for where I got the material from (to avoid plagiarism). But any site I go to with info either only tells me or they only show a citation I can't understand; they don't show me exactly how the citations are supposed to be put in the essay, if I should put them within the essay with a bunch of ( ) or something, or maybe just put it all at the very end of the essay or what. I need a visual reference since I can't understand the explanations they provide.

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: jedi472 on March 21, 2010, 02:53:57 PM

Does this site help?

http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm (http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm)

Also, I usually do a work-cited page at the end, although you might need in-text citations for your particular assignment. Here's a site on them;

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla (http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla)

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 21, 2010, 02:56:20 PM

Unfortunately they don't. That's similar information I already got looking at other sources (including the book that has an entire section on MLA Format), but they only leave me more confused. What I'm hoping to find is an article done in MLA format or a screenshot of an article in MLA format so I can see, visually, for myself how it's supposed to look. Sites that just explain haven't been much help for me, unfortunately.

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: jedi472 on March 21, 2010, 03:03:27 PM

Here's a screenshot of an MLA work-cited page. It would be at the end of your article.

http://www.plymouth.k12.ct.us/uploaded/hsf...Works_Cited.jpg (http://www.plymouth.k12.ct.us/uploaded/hsf/images/Works_Cited.jpg)

Here's another site on in-text citations with examples.

http://www.senecac.on.ca/library/Research_.../mla_guide.html (http://www.senecac.on.ca/library/Research_Help/Citing_Sources/mla_guide.html)

I'm sorry if this isn't helping. :( This is how I learned.

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 21, 2010, 03:07:40 PM

I guess the reason it feels so hard for me to understand MLA format is because I learn better visually and seeing completed works for myself more so than I would just reading about it and without visual references to what I need to know (in this case how to add in citations within an article and where to put them), I can become confused.

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: jedi472 on March 21, 2010, 03:10:12 PM

It's OK, I know a lot of people who learn through visuals. :) Did the screenshot help any?

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 21, 2010, 03:16:48 PM

A bit.

Title: MLA Format?
Post by: Ptyra on March 21, 2010, 04:32:57 PM

I had to do the same thing, however, I used a  generator (http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/) to make mine :)
I'm sure it will be much simpler for you. I'm a visual learner too, but this helped me quite a lot.