Today in Comp 101 we are having a quiz on MLA Documentation. The chapter tells how the style is set up for in text citation and works cited . This is a great chapter in the book I can use for a reference when I do any papers and I need to know how to cite an author. The beginning of the chapter reminds the danger of plagiarism. In text citation means anything that is not in my own words has to be acknowledged by ( ), quotation marks or italicised. Even if I paraphrase I have to give credit to where I found the information.
The work cited page is in alphabetical order and contains all the source I use in my paper. It tells how to cite any book, magazine author, web page etc. Professor Kershner told us we don't have to memorize how to do it but he wants us to know where to go to find out how to do it.
The is also a web link mla.org I can check out to see if there are any changes to MLA. I think most of the recent changes has to do with how you cite anything fro the Internet.
The book then give a sample research paper and shows how it should be set up in MLA stlye.
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