Information about mla format

1. Information about mla format BRITISH LITERATURE

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3. In-text citations • Whenever you use information from another source, you must cite it in your writing or it is considered plagiarism. • This includes quotations or paraphrasing. • This in-text citation is a signal word or phrase that corresponds to the first thing that appears in the MLA citation. • (Author’s Last Name Page #) • Example: (Wiesel 33) • (“Article Title in quotation marks”) • Example: (“Asia’s Missing Girls”)

4. In-text citations • This can be done in the sentence. If you use the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need a “parenthetical” citation. • Elie Wiesel explains, “he does not want his past to become their future” (3). • “Asia’s Missing Girls” reveals the gender imbalance due to the one-child policy (2). • If your source references a page number, it must always appear in parentheses.

5. In-text citations • Parenthetical Citation: This in-text citation is in parentheses. • He writes his memoir because “he does not want his past to become their future” (Wiesel 3). • The one-child policy has contributed to a gross gender imbalance in China (“Asia’s Missing Girls” 2). • Use punctuation on the outside of the parenthetical citation.

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9. This should be in alphabetical order!