MLA GUIDE - THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE
PLAGIARISM & ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Other than sources documented and cited according to MLA standards, all work submitted for a grade must be your
own original work and never before submitted for a grade in any previous or current course. You may neither revise
a previous response paper and submit it as a major essay nor submit previous or current work in another course.
Submitting work by other writers without MLA documentation (including Web-based texts, such as journal articles
from JSTOR) as original work in this course, i.e. plagiarism, constitutes a ground for failure in this course
(see 2013-2014 Student Handbook, section 7-2.3, “Scholastic Dishonesty: Plagiarism, Cheating, Collusion”);
The Brief New Century Handbook, 4th ed., Part 2, Section 10; MLA Handbook, Chapter 2).
MLA FORMATS FOR TEXTBOOK CITATIONS
 Focus on the primary texts as sources for support examples throughout your response papers and essays.
 Unless directed do so by the prompt, do not summarize or cite introductory materials for authors, works, or periods
as part of your response paper or essay.
 As the course revision guidelines state, paraphrase and parenthetically document examples and evidence according to
the MLA Handbook. Parenthetically document common textbook references to prose by page number, poetry by line
number(s), and drama by act, scene, and line number(s), etc. (see formats below), according to MLA documentation
formats corresponding to specific selections from the Norton Anthology of World Literature. For context, always
identify the work if citing two or more works by the same author or poet, or if you are differentiating works from
various authors or poets. Place parenthetical references at the end of the relevant sentences, followed by a period.
 Avoid quotes (paraphrase and cite), and check for plagiarism - write in your own voice, and write your own analyses.
“QUOTATION MARKS” VS. ITALICS
 Titles of poems and short stories take quotation marks – examples: “The Chimney Sweeper” (Blake),
“To the Reader” (Baudelaire), “The Guest” (Camus), “Poem 92” (de la Cruz). “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (Keats).
 Titles of full works (book and drama titles) take italics – examples: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, (Blake)
Tartuffe (Molière), The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Bashō), Journey to the West (Wu Cheng’en).
AUTHOR - MLA FORMAT DESCRIPTION: PARENTHETICAL REFERENCE EXAMPLE
AKHMATOVA, ANNA - by section number or title: lines: (III: 4-6) or (Prologue 10-12)
BASHŌ, MATSUO – page: (330).
BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES – line(s): (5-6).
BLAKE, WILLIAM – line(s): (lines 6-7).
BROWNING, EIZABETH BARRETT – line(s): (130-32).
BUSON, YOSASON – page: (338).
CAMUS, ALBERT – page(s): (1516).
CAVAFY, CONSTANTINE – line(s): (10-12).
DE LA CRUZ, SOR JUANA INÉS – for “Poem 92”: line(s); for “The Poet’s Answer...”: page(s).
DICKINSON, EMILY – poem number: line(s): (465: 13-14).
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK – page(s): (531).
FLAUBERT, GUSTAV – page(s): (792-93).
GARCĺA MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL – page(s): (1658-59).
GHALIB – for “Couplets,” couplet number: (4); for “Petition: My Salary,” line(s): (11-13).
HEANEY, SEAMUS – line(s): (15-18).
HEINE, HEINRICH – line(s): (4-6).
KEATS, JOHN – line(s): (8-10).
KIGIN, KITAMURA – page(s): (324).
KYORIKU, MORIKAWA – page: (337).
LEOPARDI, GIACOMO – line(s): (11-12).
LESSING, DORIS – page(s): (1481-82).
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCĺA – line(s): (156-58).
MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB – page(s): (1598-99).
MALAGASY WISDOM POETRY – page(s): (996).
MOLIÈRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN – act.scene.lines: (1.5.96-98).
NERUDA, PABLO – line(s): (11-12).
RILKE, RANIER MARIA – line(s): (11-13).
ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JAQUES – page(s): (392-93).
SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER – page(s): (1522-73).
U.S. SLAVE STORY – page(s): (993).
VERLAINE, PAUL – line(s): (16-18).
WALCOTT, DEREK – line(s): (16-17).
WHITMAN, WALT – section number.line(s): (16.11-12).
WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY – page(s): (161).
WOOLF, VIRGINIA – page(s): (1327-28).
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM – line(s): (89-92).
WU CHENG’EN, WU – page(s): (177-78).
XUEQIN, CAO – page(s): (255-56).
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER – line(s): (3-4).