What is this MLA..?

Question

My bro needs help, he got this written project.
Were new here in America so I've never heard of it aswell, is it similar to Essay?

Answer 1

It is a format of writing an essay, one being a three-part essay: Introduction, Body, Conclusion. The three parts should be seperate paragraphs, although the body can be more than one paragraph.

Answer 2

In short: it is the formatting of that essay. MLA as stated in the book gives you guidance on how to format the information that you use to put into your paper or essay.

"Essay- Short nonfiction prose piece: a short analytic, descriptive, or interpretive piece of literary or journalistic prose dealing with a specific topic, especially from a personal and unsystematic viewpoint"

Below are some links that will provide you an extensive amount of information.

“The Modern Language Association's (MLA) style manual is an academic style guide. It prescribes a writing style most often used in English studies, comparative literature, foreign-language, literary criticism, and some other fields in the humanities. “

“The Modern Language Association does not publish its documentation guidelines on the Web. For an authoritative explanation of MLA style, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (for high school and undergraduate college students) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers). Please also see frequently asked questions about MLA style.”

“The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style is widely used for identifying research sources. In MLA style you briefly credit sources with parenthetical citations in the text of your paper, and give the complete description of each source in your Works Cited list. The Works Cited list, or Bibliography, is a list of all the sources used in your paper, arranged alphabetically by author's last name, or when there is no author, by the first word of the title (except A, An or The). [5.1-5.5]”

Thank you,

Answer 3

MLA is documentation formats. Not American myself here and have heard of it. Examples of MLA are: Author's surname followed by the forename in full, not just initials. Book title, underlined. All words to begin with a capital letter except for words such as a, of, in, the, from, etc
Place of publication
Publisher

Year of Publication

FOR EXAMPLE:
Bernheimer, Charles. Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure.

Answer 4

As already covered, the MLA is a essay format that can be found in their handbook. It is used mainly in high schools. Most post secondary institutions use the APA style (the other big one).

Its biggest difference is in the citations. For help with that, go to
http://noodletools.com/noodlebib/citeone_s.php?style=MLA

you put in the info... it cranks out a citation. it is a lifesaver.
hope this helps, and merry christmas!

Answer 5

MLA is a format of essay writing where you have to cite all of the sources you use, even if you paraphrase. Try looking it up on Google, it's very commonly used.

Answer 6

MLA is a style guide for writing research papers. It includes how to format your paper as well as how to cite and properly reference your sources. Most universities and high schools require students to follow this style nowadays.

I use the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers(http://www.mla.org/store/CID24/PID159) at school and also Diana Hacker's "Rules for Writers" who provides lots of material online (http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/)

Good Luck!!!

Answer 7

MLA Stylesheet

http://www.ccsn.nevada.edu/library/mla.htm

APA Turabian MLA Chicago AMA

http://www.citationmachine.net/

http://www.aresearchguide.com/

http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/mla.html

http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/citation.htm

http://www.leeogle.org/byron/bhs/library/citing.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html

http://www-navigator.utah.edu/module3/mla.htm

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html

http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html

http://www.lib.usm.edu/help/style_guides/apa.html

Good luck

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 8

it's the Modern Language Association's style for writing. very common....go to the site below.

Answer 9

it's a set of references you found in a particular format.