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Teaching Resource: A Guide to Quotations
A lesson plan offers advice on teaching undergraduates how to smoothly integrate quotations into their research papers. Read the lesson plan for ideas for in-classroom activities.
How Do You Use Due To?
The phrase due to modifies noun clauses, not verb clauses. To ensure you never use due to incorrectly, read this MLA editor’s tips.
Punctuation and Quotations
American and British publishers follow different conventions regarding punctuation at the end of quotations, an MLA editor explains.
Disability Studies Turns 20!
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Disability Studies, two of the book’s editors come together for a conversation.
“Writing with MLA Style”
We’re accepting submissions for “Writing with MLA Style,” an online collection of student essays, until 2 February. Learn more.
Contrast Comprise and Compose
Writers often use comprise and compose interchangeably, but the words mean different things. Avoid mistakes with an MLA editor’s help.
What Are Back-Formations?
Back-formations are words created by removing part of a preexisting word, and they can vary in their acceptability. Find out more.
Digital to Print: Citing Born-Digital Texts
Writers have options when they are citing a text that was initially published digitally but later appeared in print, the MLA editors explain.
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Rethinking First-Generation Writing and Literacy Education
Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation college students inform literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom.
