A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation - Softcover

Fasano, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982129815 ISBN 13: 9780982129814

Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press, 2015

Synopsis

A CONCISE GUIDE TO MLA STYLE AND DOCUMENTATION is an affordable and classroom-tested resource that provides only the information students need most often and -- according to the author's own students -- is easier to use than the actual MLA Handbook. This edition incorporates several major changes from the new MLA Handbook, Seventh Edition. It also has a two-color design, a numbering system, and an index to help students find information quickly and easily. Here students will discover useful advice on gathering sources, compiling notes, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting properly, and avoiding plagiarism.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Fasano teaches high school English in Southern California. He is the editor of several books, including Selected Poems by Robert Frost and The Dead by James Joyce. As part of his teaching, he actively maintains an English teacher's blog called Your English Class Dot Com.

From the Back Cover

A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation is an affordable and classroom-tested guide that provides only the information students need most often and--according to the author's own students--is easier to use than the actual MLA handbook.

Find information fast. The book has a two-color design, a numbering system, and an index to help students find information quickly and easily.

Get the advice you need. This edition also contains useful advice on finding sources, compiling notes, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting properly, and avoiding plagiarism.

Some of what you'll find.

• The latest guidelines that incorporate several major changes from the new MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Seventh Edition (2009)
• How to find the best sources for your research
• Best ways to compile sources and take notes
• Questions to ask when evaluating print and online sources
• Advice on how to weave quotations properly into the body of a paper
• Examples of how to cite sources in the text
• Over 100 sample entries most often found in a list of works cited
• Proper formatting of the research paper and the list of works cited
• A list of MLA abbreviations

Edition details

• Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982129815
• ISBN 13: 9780982129814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46