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 | MLA Style for Research Papers The Modern Language Association (MLA) has developed a contemporary research style to meet the needs of scholars of modern literature and the humanities. It is an easy style to use and well documented in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, an essential reference for any serious student in the humanities. It is also affordable with a price under $20. With the print edition you also get a secret scratch code that allows you access to the MLA website at www.mlahandbook.org. "The Web site [sic] includes the full text of the print volume (with over 200 additional examples), several research project narratives, sample papers, and additional resources" (MLA rear cover). MLA Handbook at Amazon.com | Doc's review of the new edition. |
Reference or Guide? The MLA Handbook is one of the easiest research style manuals to use. It is compact and generally well focused on its main theme. This is not always the case. Still, it is more a reference than a guide. A good reference answers any question you think to ask. But then, what if you don't know what are the right questions? A guide, on the other hand, answers question you might not think to ask. MLA Lite is crafted to be a basic guide to MLA style, focused only on the essential features. Basic Features of Research Styles (PDF). Doc has prepared a short introduction (four pages) to research styles. This explains the basic elements of research styles: documentation, text rules, and page formatting. It helps sort through the mass of details that confront you when you open a 300-page style manual. It's easy to get lost in a maze of minutiae. It's not that hard. Free to use, but not to sell or change. You may also use parts of the guides--images, figures, tables, whatever--as long as reference is given to this website. © Copyright 2009 by Dr. Abel Scribe PhD. 
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The MLA Handbook is focused entirely on preparing papers for college classes. It is well written and well organized. However, it dumbs down the style, skipping features common to articles published in the MLA's own journal, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association). These are explained in MLA Lite along with the essential requirements of the style, revised and updated to the latest 2009 edition of the MLA Handbook.
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The Modern Language Association (MLA) has developed a contemporary research style to meet the needs of scholars of modern literature and the humanities. The style is documented in two volumes, the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers for college research papers, and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing for editors and authors writing for publication. It is an easy style to use and well documented. The MLA Handbook is an essential reference for any serious student in the humanities.  The MLA Handbook is affordable with a price under $20. With the print edition you also get a secret scratch code that allows you access to the MLA website at www.mlahandbook.org. "The Web site [sic] includes the full text of the print volume (with over 200 additional examples), several research project narratives, sample papers, and additional resources" (MLA rear cover). MLA Handbook at Amazon.com $19.00. |
 | Houghton, Peggy M. and Timothy J. Houghton. MLA: The Easy Way! 7th ed.
Baker College. 2009. From Amazon.com: The authors of this book draw information from the manual [MLA Handbook] that is specific to academic writing and expand upon it using document set-up instructions and a sample paper. The end result . . . yields a useful guide that can be used along with the actual manual for successful academic writing. . . . Frequently used aspects of MLA style, citation, and referencing are addressed in a simple format that allows researchers to focus on content instead of mechanics and style. Quite simply, MLA: The Easy Way! presents the basics of MLA style in a clear, concise, accurate, and easy-to-navigate package. Try it, and immediately relieve some of the stress of writing a research paper. MLA Easy at Amazon.com $10.95. |
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