MLA Handbook 8th edition: Overview

This tutorial provides an overview of MLA 8

1. MLA Handbook 8 th Edition Overview: Part 1

2. MLA (Modern Language Association) Style formatting is often used in various humanities disciplines. In addition to the handbook, MLA also offers The MLA Style Center , a website that provides additional instruction and resources for writing and formatting academic papers. https://style.mla.org/ What is MLA?

3. MLA Handbook & John B. Cade Library

4. MLA regulates: Document format In-text citations Works-cited list What does MLA regulate?

5. Basic rule for any formatting style: Always Follow your instructor’ s guidelines

6. MLA There is more information available today, in more formats, than ever before, so the way we cite sources needs to evolve to keep pace. MLA 8 was designed to simplify the process, helping writers accurately and intuitively cite sources more easily, requiring that every source type follow the same format. This means that books, websites, periodicals, videos, photographs, and all other types of sources now use this same standard format.

7. Core elements *MLA 8 requires researchers to locate the same “core elements” from their sources and place them in a standard order in order to create their citations. The “Core Elements” of an MLA 8 citation, along with their corresponding punctuation marks, include the following (in this order).

8. Title of container When the source being documented forms a part of a larger whole, the larger whole can be thought of as a container that holds the source. The container is crucial to the identification of the source.

9. Understanding containers Containers are generally the item that holds a source.

10. Understanding containers

11. Types of containers Compilations, such as books of essays, poems, or short stories Newspapers, magazines, and academic journals Websites (including online periodicals)  Library databases and online book platforms

12. A Source in a Single Container Example Works Cited: A Quick Guide An Essay in a Book Collection

13. This is A Video on a Web Site Example of a single source container.

14. Containers are generally the item that holds a source.