What is MLA?
MLA stands for the Modern Language Association, which is an organization that focuses on language and literature.
What is MLA Citing?
The Modern Language Association Handbook is in its 8th edition and standardizes the way scholars document their sources and format their papers. When everyone documents their sources and papers in the same way, it is simple to recognize and understand the types of sources that were used for a project. Readers of your work will not only look at your citations to understand them, but to possibly explore them as well.
When you're borrowing information from a source and placing it in your research or assignment, it is important to give credit to the original author. This is done by creating an MLA citation. Depending on the type of information you're including in your work, citations are placed in the body of your project and all are included in a "Works Cited" list, at the end of your project.
The link explains how to create MLA citations MLA online resource This table summarizes the information in the handbook, 8th edition.
