Documenting Your Paper -- MLA Style

For the best website on how to do your parenthetical documentations and how to prepare your "Works Cited" page, visit the following website:

www.dianahacker.com

Diana Hacker is a professor of English whose book, A Writer's Reference, is one of the most used grammar books at the university. Her publisher has created her website and when you visit it, click on MLA Guide. You will then be directed to several strands which will give you all the information you need.

Visit "MLA in-text citations" It features a pull down screen to show you different ways to do your parenthetical documentations (depending on the information you have).

Also, visit "MLA list of works cited" to see how to create your citation for whatever source you have (whether it's a novel, a website, or a reference article).

It will take you about fifteen minutes to navigate her website, but once you see her system, you'll understand it completely.

Bookmark this fabulous cite and use it throughout your high school career when you're required to use MLA (or any other) format.

Hacker's site also includes a sample MLA style paper (done in PDF version) so you can see how a full-length student paper looks.