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Author: Joseph Gibaldi

Publisher:  THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

With his MLA HANDBOOK, Gibaldi has written one of the best stylebooks for college students. Accessible yet detailed enough to help students navigate tricky issues of citations and format, this book offers excellent advice for writing term papers. The electronic citation section is especially helpful since many style manuals have not been properly updated to embrace contemporary research practices.
This book should be on every college student's shelf.

Contents (in brief)

Foreword by Phyllis Franklin…..xv

Chapter 1.  Research and Writing

Chapter 2.  Plagiarism

Chapter 3.  The Mechanics of Writing

Chapter 4.  The Format of the Research Paper

Chapter 5.  Documentation: Preparing the List of Works Cited

Chapter 6.  Documentation:  Citing Sources in the Text

Chapter 7.  Abbreviations

Appendix A. Selected Reference Works

Appendix B. Other System of Documentation

Saple pages of a Research Paper in MLA Style.  319.

Index  323

Paperback  361 pages  ISBN: 0-87352-986-3