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Introducing the New MLA Style Center
The redesigned MLA Style Center offers the same expert advice as before but now with more style. Updates include a fresh look for our Ask the MLA feature, a brand-new section on how to cite works by format, and a reorganized section for teachers. See what’s new!
The Subtle Art of Typesetting
Editors devote much of their attention to the content of a page, but its aesthetics are no less important, an MLA editor explains.
Correlative Conjunctions: A Guide
Take a quiz about rhetorically powerful phrases such as not only . . . but also after reading this MLA editor’s advice.
Get Reflective about Reflexives
It can be tempting to use pronouns ending in -self in situations where they aren’t appropriate, but an MLA editor can help.
Digital Literacy in a Post-Truth Era
Students must learn to distinguish reliable information from unreliable. To explore this issue, the MLA interviewed an expert.
When to Use Semicolons with Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions like and or but are usually preceded by a comma, but for sentences that already contain a lot of commas, consider a semicolon instead, the MLA editors suggest.
How to Cite Memes
Memes are a funny and increasingly popular way to convey information, so you may want to cite one. But how? The MLA editors break it down.
Commas with Too: Too Many or Too Few?
In most uses of the word too to mean also, no commas are necessary. But in some cases—such as when too separates a verb from its object—they are. The MLA editors explain.
