After you complete this research exercise, you will be able to:
To complete this Research Exercise, you will take a quiz located under "Course Menu" and "Quizzes" in your FYS101 Brightspace course.
MLA Style is one prescriptive format (of many!) for written communication that establishes guidelines for:
MLA style is most commonly used within the disciplines of English language & literature, Foreign language & literature, Literary criticism, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and other Humanities disciplines. Other styles you will likely run across during your college years are APA (American Psychological Association) used for Social Sciences, Education, and Business, and the Chicago Manual of Style used for History and Art History.
For FYS101, you are able to use MLA 8th Edition, however, the 9th edition was published in April 2021 so you will want to check with your faculty in other classes that require MLA formatting to be sure which edition you are expected to use. Some of the resources listed below will be 8th edition while others have been updated to 9th edition as noted.
Citing sources in your written communication:
This is a handy tool that clearly spells out how to create any Works Cited citation in MLA format and includes an Interactive Practice Template This link opens in a new window to learn how to cite different items in MLA format.
This site provides a comprehensive overview of MLA Style 8th edition and specific guidelines broken out for style, formatting and citation. Look specifically at their MLA Formatting and Style Guide This link opens in a new window section which provides explanations of each element listed in an MLA citation: Author, Title of Source, Title of Container, Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication Date, Location, and Optional Elements. It also explains how to construct "in-text" citations in MLA 8th format.
SNHU's Shapiro Library MLA Style Guide has been updated to the MLA 9th edition and is available from the library home page by clicking on "Citing Your Sources" in the Quick Links box. Select the MLA Style tab in the Citing Your Sources guide. This explains what MLA style is, and provides specific examples for how to cite various items in MLA format in a Works Cited as well as in-text.
The FAQ box on the library home page allows you to search for specific citation questions like "How do I cite a TED Talk in MLA style?" The link below will take you to a complete list of FAQs about MLA style.
In simplifying citation style as more online formats have developed, MLA has come up with a formula for creating a citation, and they have developed an interactive template This link opens in a new window for you to use to create your citation. Click on the image below and then click on get started This link opens in a new window creating a citation.
Use the MLA Style Center's Interactive Practice Template to create citations for your sources. Be sure to double-check them with examples in the MLA Handbook (8th edition) or with the Shapiro Library MLA Style Guide Works Cited examples.
Below are examples and resources for citing specific items that you will likely use in you FYS101 Final Team Project for your annotated bibliographies as well as in your website. Just read down this list for now so you will be prepared for later when you will need to cite different types of sources on your Project website.
Deresiewicz, William. “The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur.” The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2014, theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/ the-death-of-the-artist-and-the-birth-of-thecreative-entrepreneur/383497/.
Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.
Soloski, Alexis. “The Time Has Come to Play Othello.” The New York Times, 20 Nov. 2016, Arts and Leisure sec., p. 5.
Cameron, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Bearden, Romare. The Train. 1975. MOMA, www.moma.org/collection/works/65232?locale=en.
Karasik, Paul. Cartoon. The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2008, p. 49.
Brumberg, Robby. “Infographic: Google’s Top 100 Keywords.” Ragan’s PR Daily, 19 July 2018, www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/
Infographic_Googles_top_100_keywords_24740.aspx.
Thomas, Angie. Photo of burned copy of The Hate U Give. Instagram
Richardson, Tony, director. Sanctuary. Screenplay by James Poe, Twentieth Century Fox, 1961. YouTube, uploaded by LostCinemaChannel, 17 July 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnzFM_Sq8s.
World War II: The Propaganda Battle. Films Media Group, 2010. Films on Demand, www.infobase.com/tag/films-on-demand.
Minecraft. Java ed. for Mac, 2017.
Lilly [@uvisaa]. “[I]f u like dark academia there’s a good chance you’ve seen my tumblr #darkacademia.” TikTok, 2020, www.tiktok.com/@uvisaa/video/6815708894900391173.
Documenting Legal Works in MLA Style This link opens in a new window by Angela Gibson
Your FYS101 Annotated Bibliography Assignment asks you to view the video below and defines an annotation as described:
Different professors may have different requirements, but in FYS 101, we ask that your annotations in your annotated bibliography consist of an MLA formatted citation, followed by a substantial paragraph, comprised of the following three elements:
An annotated bibliography is a list of source citations in alphabetical order by author's last name, or if there is no author, then by the first item in the MLA citation. Each citation is followed by an annotation as described above. Usually, an annotated bibliography will have a theme or topic about which all the sources relate.