MLA Formatting and Style Guide
1. All papers should have an MLA heading as shown in this picture.
2. Anytime you are referencing another person's work or using a quote from some other person's work you have to create a work cited page for the references and make citations. Below is an example of a work cited page and the specifications for it.
3. Each type of source such as newspaper, magazines, internet, books, etc. has a particular set of items that need to appear in the work cited page. Go to the following website to review what is needed for each reference.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
4. The following tutorial gives you the best information about making in- text citations and working with papers that require some sort of quotes or information form sources that have provided you with additional information for your paper. This is how you will avoid plagarism which results in an automatic "F" for the paper.
Moles' Law on Citiations
If you follow these laws for making citations you will be fine in avoiding plagarism and having a correct paper.
Law One If you use a date or refrence a date, cite it.
Law Two If you reference a statistic, cite it.
Law Three If you directly quote from a source, cite it.
Law Four If you asked ten people and only one or two even new what you were talking about then this is not common knowledge, cite it.
Law Five If you are not certain whether you should cite something or not, cite it, but remember, this paper is suppose to be your ideas and interpretation of the information so citing everything is very bad.
