You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In fairness to the Modern Language Association and other makers of popular academic style guides ...

Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

This guide provides an overview of citation management software offered at Brandeis, as well as information on print and online citation guides. The MLA (Modern Language Association) citation style ...

Most sources you come across for will follow the basic structure for an MLA citation. Even sources you might think are unusual, like a pamphlet, a magazine advertisement, or a message posted to a ...

Let's say you need to cite a dictionary definition (we'll use "hendecasyllabe", just for argument's sake). Pretty straight forward: note the source somehow in context ...

Plagiarism, put simply, is taking credit for someone else’s work. In academics specifically, plagiarizing is when you write what someone else said/wrote but don’t give them credit for it. Giving ...

A s the fall term begins, the shelves of college bookstores across the country are piled with a slim new edition of the MLA Handbook, standard-bearer of MLA style, the most widely used form of ...