MLA+Style+Resources

The following link to the Purdue University OWL has great information and examples. Purdue OWL

This link takes you back to the ELC Web site for a video demonstration on formatting your essay and using Word. Remember to click on the Quicktime movie link under the heading "Writing." How to format your paper in Word. THIS DEMONSTRATION IS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND MICROSOFT WORD. YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR MLA STYLE, AND YOU SHOULD USE THE "MLA SAMPLE ESSAY.PDF" BELOW FOR DETAILS ABOUT MLA REQUIREMENTS.

Example MLA student essay on Andrew Carnegie [|MLA sample essay.pdf]

Last Name, First Name. "Title." //Publication//. Publisher, date written. Source. Date found.
 * __Works Cited Order:__**

Polster, Miriam. "Eve's Daughters." Gestalt Journal Press, 2001. Print.

__**In-text citation:**__

In-direct Quoting: paraphrasing/summarizing 1. (Polster). 2. According to Polster, heroes have 5 characteristics in common.

Direct Quoting: We copied exactly from another source. 1. ". . . we can see that many ordinary women and men are actually heroes" (Polster). 2. Polster argues, "Our images of heroes provide an inventory, if you will, of heroic characteristics."

1. "Television is something by our times, out of our times, for our times. It reflects the virtures and faults of our times," Aubrey Singer stated. 2. "My fellow citizens of the world," President John F. Kennedy said, "ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." 3. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "We all know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." 3. According to Polster, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "We all know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." 3. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "We all know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" (Polster). 4. Robert Kasanoff maintains, "There does, and ought to, exist a right to lie." He contends, "The state must recognize and protect the right to lie." 5. "If you can't convince them," Harry S. Truman said, "confuse them." 6. "If we are a country committed to free speech," asked comedian Steven Wright, "then why do we have phone bills?"
 * __DAW 8.7 Direct Quotes Practice:__**