Citation Guide: MLA - SFU Library.
The following essays, which won the 2019 MLA Student Paper Contest, provide models for organizing an argument and working with sources. They also demonstrate MLA documentation style and paper formatting. For more details, consult the MLA’s guidelines on formatting papers. Please note that the papers were lightly edited and that missing bibliographic information, such as page numbers, was.
This resource contains a sample MLA paper that adheres to the 2016 updates. To download the MLA sample paper, click this link.
The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of theMLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book'or perhaps listened to in an audio version.
Works Cited should begin on a separate page following your paper. Label the page Works Cited and center it. (If you only have one entry, label the page Work Cited instead.) The rest of the page format should be identical to your MLA-formatted paper (one inch margins, page number header, etc.).
The Libraries now have print copies of the new 8th edition of the MLA Handbook (previous title MLA Handbook for writers of research papers). SUMMARY: The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.
Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have relied on for over half a century. The seventh edition, taken out of print by the MLA in spring 2016 upon publication of the eighth edition, provides the MLA's previous recommendations on documentation style for use in student writing.
MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version.