{"id":1098,"date":"2023-01-16T13:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2024-10-20T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:24:57","slug":"mla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/mla\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA-Style Citation Help and Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"first-permission-a-warning-and-some-advice\">First, <strong>Permission<\/strong>, a <strong>Warning<\/strong>, and Some <strong>Advice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Permission<\/strong>. Online citation generators can be pretty good, and you can make use of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Warning<\/strong>. You need to check their work. These citation bots get some stuff right, but they also often miss or overcomplicate things\u2014and that includes the bots that generate citations for some of the academic databases. It&#8217;s really obvious when you don&#8217;t check the work of the citation bots. The MLA&#8217;s basic guide (linked below) could help with that. So could my handout (also linked below).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Advice<\/strong>. If you get your head around the basic rules, you&#8217;ll be able to write out a works cited entry on your own just as quickly as you might provide info to a citation generator. Maybe more quickly.  And, then, you&#8217;ll be in control, not the citation bots. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Short Videos<\/strong> about Setting Up the <strong>Heading<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Liberate yourself from guessing about how to do this!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jp_f7YP0Hoo\">Best Overview of the Whole Process<\/a> (~4-5 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RDtTJtPSN_Y?si=loZql7YvkGskCEGH\">Good on the Header and Page Numbers<\/a> (~2 Minutes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-mla-s-own-resources\">The <strong>MLA<\/strong>&#8216;s Own Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlahandbookplus.org\/books\/book\/5\/chapter\/56255\/Title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Guide to Setting Up Your Paper<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/works-cited\/citations-by-format\/\">A Basic Online Guide to Works Cited Entries<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">At this time, the whole current edition (9th) of their handbook online: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mla-handbook-9th-edition\/mode\/2up\">Here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mla-handbook-9th-edition\/page\/n351\/mode\/2up\">this link<\/a> takes you directly to the handbook&#8217;s useful set of &#8220;works cited&#8221; models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-purdue-online-writing-lab-owl\">The <strong>Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">The OWL has <a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/research_and_citation\/mla_style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its own guide<\/a>, including a citation generator. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"and-i-ve-posted-a-printable-8-page-guide-of-my-own-in-two-formats-this-guide-makes-pretty-quick-work-of-both-in-text-citation-rules-and-works-cited-entry-rules-you-can-use-what-s-here-to-check-the-work-of-any-citation-generator-you-might-have-used-to-get-yourself-started-both-have-the-same-content-but-the-second-is-set-up-as-a-booklet-in-case-you-d-like-to-print-it-that-way\"><strong>And a Useful, Portable Handout<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"and-i-ve-posted-a-printable-8-page-guide-of-my-own-in-two-formats-this-guide-makes-pretty-quick-work-of-both-in-text-citation-rules-and-works-cited-entry-rules-you-can-use-what-s-here-to-check-the-work-of-any-citation-generator-you-might-have-used-to-get-yourself-started-both-have-the-same-content-but-the-second-is-set-up-as-a-booklet-in-case-you-d-like-to-print-it-that-way\" class=\"\">Below, I&#8217;ve linked to a printable 8-page guide of my own. This guide makes pretty quick work of both in-text citation rules and works cited entry rules; it doesn&#8217;t say everything about MLA, but it condenses the basics pretty well.  You can use what&#8217;s in it to check the work of any citation generating bot  you might have used to get yourself started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b9445387-7369-4b6a-8990-39b50646b677\" href=\"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MLA-Crib-Sheet-S2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MLA Basics, S2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MLA-Crib-Sheet-S2023.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b9445387-7369-4b6a-8990-39b50646b677\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Permission, a Warning, and Some Advice Short Videos about Setting Up the Heading The MLA&#8216;s Own Resources The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) And&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/mla\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLA-Style Citation Help and Handouts<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howto","category-writing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/52833B74-F63B-43A1-99F2-5BC3231A5F7A_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abjohnson.net\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}