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Intensive English 074/104 Academic Writing

This guide will direct you to resources to help you complete library assignments

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MLA Style Guide

To Cite or Not to Cite

Look at the examples below and decide if you have to cite the sources you use or not.

  • You write about your experiences and impressions of people you encountered on an archeological trip to Peru.
  • You quote a person you interviewed in the course of your field research.
    • What information do you need to cite an interview?
  • In a paper you are writing, you relate your friend's story of her experience conducting research in China.
  • You want to use some background information you found in a handwritten letter form a World War II soldier to his parents.
  • You want to put into your paper a diagram you found on an Internet site that illustrates a complex political process.

MLA Style Examples

How to cite a book with two or more authors:

Roland, Oliver, George P. Manning, and Claude S. Sanders. Discourse Studies. New York: Pantheon, 2000.

How to cite a journal article:

Denning, Peter J. "Business Designs for the New University." Educom Review 31.6 (1996).

How to cite a full-text journal article from a library database:

Youakim, Sami. "Work-Related Asthma." American Family Physician 64 (2001): 1839-52. Health Reference Center Academic. InfoTrac. Wu Mabee Library. 12 Jan. 2009.

How to cite a Web page:

Latner, Richard B. "Crisis at Fort Sumter." 1996. Tulane University. 14 Feb. 2009.