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This video goes over MLA citations: where to put page numbers, how to set up a works cited page, and how to cite with long quotes.
Transcript
- 00:03
MLA style a la shmoop MLA is not that hip-hop artist you saw
- 00:09
[hip hop singer twerking on a stage] twerking at the VMA MLA actually stands for Modern Language Association but
- 00:15
they're about more than simply banishing all the thees, thine and doths from
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our language these folks are devoted to all things language and literature and
- 00:23
that includes citation MLA style is used in almost all English and lit classes [hand picking up an MLA style book from a shelf]
Full Transcript
- 00:28
it's pretty simple too all you need is the main body of your paper and a
- 00:31
special page devoted to the text you've quoted also known as works cited that's
- 00:36
a whole page one nice thing about MLA is that you don't even need a title page [piece of paper floating in the air by the seaside]
- 00:40
they're all about saving paper four out of five trees recommend MLA when citing
- 00:45
sources in the body of your paper you'll include the author's last name and the
- 00:48
page number of your quote putting them both into a little front seat sandwich
- 00:52
after whatever it is you're citing mayo and relish optional if you mention the [A note displaying citing sources with mayo and relish pots]
- 00:56
author's name when you introduce your quote or reference then you just include
- 00:59
the page number in your parentheses your parenthetical citation is always after
- 01:04
the quotation mark your page number is always inside the parentheses and your [piece of writing highlighting page number inside a parentheses]
- 01:08
period is always after the parentheses but of course there's always an
- 01:12
exception when citing more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse [large piece of text highlighted in yellow]
- 01:16
you'll put it into a block quote in this case your page number will come after
- 01:21
the ending punctuation of your quote MLA discourages the use of footnotes but you
- 01:25
can use them for bibliographic or explanatory notes so if you want someone [a judge sentencing a piece of paper with a footprint]
- 01:30
to put your paper down and run and grab another book use a footnote same if you [woman throwing a book and running away]
- 01:34
go off on a tangent like talking about that time you were in the basement of a
- 01:38
restaurant New York City singing show tunes not that we know anything about [a man in a restaurant singing]
- 01:43
tangents or show tunes frankly at the end you need to include a work cited
- 01:47
page it starts out simple put the words works cited centered at the top of the [piece of paper with works cited highlighted in yellow]
- 01:53
page no bold no quotes nothing flashy then your sources need to be listed
- 01:57
alphabetically by authors last name and you should utilize what they call the
- 02:01
hanging indent it's like a dangling symbol in that it sound a little
- 02:05
dirty but it's not that's MLA style no title page always include your page [MLA style guidelines on a book page]
- 02:10
number inside parenthetical citations and forget the work cited page which uses
- 02:14
hanging indents beats Gangnam style anyway [man dancing to gangnam style]
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