MLA Style
academic credibility/honesty
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What is MLA Style
Specifications for essays
 Layout
 Citing resources
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Why Cite
Academic honesty
 Give credit to those who earned it
 Give credibility to your paper
 If you don’t cite, you are plagiarising
 Plagiarising is cheating
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Glenforest's
Statement of Plagiarism
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See page 30 of your agenda
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A Typical Paper
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1"/2.5cm margins
double spaced
12 point font
Times New Roman
every paragraph is
indented
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1st Step for Citing
• Entry for every
resource used in
the essay
• Double spaced
• Title is "Works
Cited"
• New page
• Hanging indent
used so second
and subsequent
lines are pushed in
• Very specific rules
for each resource
• Alphabetical order
by first item in the
list
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2nd Step for Citing
Place embedded
citations
throughout your
essay wherever
you use someone
else's work
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The Tricky Part
Formatting the citations
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Citations are different for every type of
resource
Follow the formats and examples for the
types of materials you are using
Use the Source It print guide
Use Source It online (site at school only)
www.glenforestlibrary.com under Library,
then click on Research Tools
Also try BibMe.org or citationmachine.net
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Works Cited: Guiding Principles
Give as much information as possible
 Make sure your teacher can acquire
the resource
 If something is missing, leave it out
 Cite every resource you use
 DO NOT cite wikis
 Use reliable sources only
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Works Cited Basic Rules
Steinbicker, Earl. Day Trips New York. Fern
Park: Hastings House, 2002. Google
Books. 12 Jan. 2007
<http://books.google.com>.
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Anderson, Chalon E., Amy T. Carrell, and
Jimmy L. Widdifield, Jr. APA and MLA
Writing Formats. Toronto: Pearson, 2004.
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“Police Credit YouTube in Finding Murder
Suspect.“ Medicine Hat News (AB) 22
Dec. 2006. Student Research Centre.
EBSCO. Cawthra S.S. 9 Jan. 2007
<http://www.ebscohost.com>.
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Author is first unless
there is no author
Titles are underlined
Component works
are in quotations
Indent the second
and subsequent
lines
Place in alphabetical
order
Scrooge. Dir. Ronald Neame. Perf. Albert
Finney. Paramount Pictures, 2003.
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Exercise
With a partner, choose two resources
from the cart and create
bibliographic citations for each.
Feel free to use www.easybib.com
or www.bibme.org or the resources
on our website under Library, and
then click on Citations & Plagiarism.
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Works Cited
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Atlantic Monthly July/Aug.
2008. Canadian Reference Centre. EBSCO. Cawthra Park S. S. 9 Sep.
2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.
"Cracking Down on Tasers." CBC-TV News in Review February 2008. DVD.
CBC, 2008.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King Lear. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Winter, Jane Kohen, and Leslie Jermyn. Italy. Cultures of the World. 2nd ed.
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2003.
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Embedded Citation
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Check details in "Source It."
Include one for every resource.
Place it in brackets.
Provide the first piece of information from
the Works Cited page
Provide the page number if available.
(West 12) (14) (Shakespeare 3.3.81)
("Two Ships Collide…") (Agenda)
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Exercise 2
For each of the resources on the
desk, prepare an embedded citation
Consult Source It for help 
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Embedded Citations
(Shakespeare 3.3.81)
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Setting up for MLA in Word
our school website
 >Library
 >Citations & Plagiarism
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