What Is MLA Style?
excerpted from the Modern Language Association

The style recommended by the association for preparing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers concerns itself with the mechanics of writing, such as punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources. MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for nearly half a century.

MLA guidelines are also currently used by over 125 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines with circulations over one thousand; by hundreds of smaller periodicals; and by many university and commercial presses. MLA style is commonly followed not only in the United States but in Canada and other countries as well; Japanese translations of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers appeared in 1980, 1984, and 1988, and a Chinese translation was published in 1990.

For the best explanation of MLA existing on the web, I direct you to the MLA introduction site prepared by the Arthur C. Banks Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. Read and/or print all the modules in this site, and I recommend that you bookmark the site in your internet browser for future use. Once you have completed your reading, log back into to English 101 and complete the MLA assignment anytime.

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