MLA Format Slide Show
HMXP 102
Dr. Fike
Directions
• Put the following data in correct MLA
format.
Things To Remember
• Double space everything.
• First line of an entry begins at the left
margin.
• All subsequent lines begin one tabulation
to the right of the left margin.
• Every entry ends with a period.
Data on a Book
• Author: John Brown
• Publisher: Dovetail Publishing Company,
Inc.
• Date of publication: 1987
• Book title: Students Love MLA
Documentation
• Place of publication: Whowawho, North
Dakota
What a Book Entry Should Look
Like
Brown, John.
Students Love MLA
Documentation.
Dovetail, 1987.
Whowawho, ND:
Print.
Now change this entry so that the place of
publication is New York, NY.
New Place of Publication
Brown, John.
Students Love MLA
Documentation.
1987.
New York: Dovetail,
Print.
Why isn’t it “New York, NY”?
Data on a Web Site
• Title of article: “Students’ Problems with
MLA Format”
• URL:
http://www.studentsexcelatdocumentation.
com
• Date of your access: 6/11/08
• Date of last update: 3/1/05
• Author: No author
• Main Web site name: Help for Students
What an Entry for a Website
Should Look Like
“Students’ Problems with MLA Format.”
Help for Students.
Web.
N.p.
1 Mar. 2005.
11 June 2008.
Note that the URL does not appear.
N.p. stands for “no provider.”
See the template on the top of page 420 in the handbook.
Data on Orr’s Text
• Title: “Love It or Lose It: The Coming Biophilia
Revolution.”
• Book title: The Human Experience: Who Am I?
• Page numbers: Text starts on page 242 and ends on
page 246.
• Editor: Winthrop University
• Edition: Sixth
• Place of publication: Littleton, Massachusetts
• Publisher: Tapestry Press, Ltd.
• Date of publication: 2009
• Author: David W. Orr
• Page from which you took your information: 243.
How To Do an Entry on Orr’s Text
Orr, David W.
“Love It or Lose It:
The Coming
Biophilia Revolution.” The Human Experience:
Who Am I?. Ed. Winthrop University.
Littleton, MA:
Tapestry, 2009.
6th ed.
242-46.
Print.
Why is there a period after the book’s title?
Why isn’t it Tapestry Press, Ltd.?
Why isn’t it 242-246? Why isn’t it just 243 (the page from which you took the
information?
Do an Entry for DuBois
• Look at your books and do an entry for
W. E. B. DuBois’s selection.
Why Is This Different from Orr?
DuBois, W. E. B.
The Souls of Black Folk.
Human Experience I:
University.
7th ed.
Who Am I?.
The
Ed. Winthrop
Littleton, MA:
Tapestry, 2009. 116-20.
Print.
How come Orr’s title is in quotation marks,
but DuBois’s is italicized?
Plato
• Do an entry for Plato’s “The Allegory of the
Cave.”
Plato
Plato.
“The Allegory of the Cave.”
Human Experience:
Who Am I?.
Winthrop University. 6th ed.
Tapestry, 2009.
3-6.
Print.
The
Ed.
Littleton, MA:
Translator?
• How would you add the information on the
translator?
Plato.
“The Allegory of the Cave.” The Republic of Plato.
Trans. G. M. A. Grube and C. D. C. Reeve.
2nd ed. The Human Experience:
Winthrop University. 6th ed.
Tapestry, 2009.
3-6.
Print.
Who Am I?.
Ed.
Littleton, MA:
Sample Works Cited List
• See the list that precedes page 408 for an
index to the models for types of entries.
• See page 454 in your Prentice Hall
Reference Guide for a model.
• See numbers 8 and 9 on page 424 for a
model for how to do a W.C. entry for a
work in an anthology.
• Note the error on page 424, section 70c,
item 8, 2nd example: the editors should
precede the edition number.
What if you have multiple works from
the anthology on your WC list?
Works Cited
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
“Self-Reliance.”
Winthrop
University 88-93.
Plato.
“The Allegory of the Cave.”
Winthrop University
3-6.
Winthrop University, ed.
I?.
7th ed.
The Human Experience:
Littleton, MA:
Who Am
Tapestry, 2011.
Print.
Eds. vs. Ed.:
What is the difference?
AUTHOR POSITION:
Kiblinger, Kristin et al., eds.
This means “editors.”
EDITOR POSITION:
Ed. Kristin Kiblinger et al.
This means “edited by.”
In-text Citation: Which is correct?
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA Format,
“Students must know how to cite properly.” (Bleau 125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA Format,
“Students must know how to cite properly” (Bleau 125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA Format,
“Students must know how to cite properly” (125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA Format,
“Students must know how to cite properly” (125-30).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA Format,
“Students must know how to cite properly” (MLA Format 125-30).
Correct Answer
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102
and MLA Format, “Students must know
how to cite properly” (125-30).
• Note: Do not repeat information from the
signal phrase in the citation.
Which Is Correct?
• As it says in “Students’ Problems with
MLA Format,” it is often difficult for
students to do citation properly
(http:www.studentsexcelat
documentation.com).
• As it says in “Students’ Problems with
MLA Format,” it is often difficult for
students to do citation properly. END