A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation
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Cover of my MLA book
Okay, I’ve written a small book to help my students write their research papers. In the thirty years since my undergraduate days in Florida, there has been a seismic shift in the way students conduct research, find primary and secondary sources, gather and store information, and write their papers. I’m certainly grateful I had the MLA Handbook back then, and I cannot imagine completing a research project in today’s computerized world without the careful, concise Seventh Edition.
My experience as a teacher, however, is that many students struggle with understanding even the basics of MLA style. That’s why I wrote this book, and students using it to help them write their research papers can rest assured that it was teacher designed and student tested in the classroom. My eleventh-graders are never shy about revealing their confusion, and their input helped me see immediately what needed improving. Because of their involvement, the strengths of this book are theirs; its weaknesses, mine.
The book should be available by the end of August, just in time for the upcoming school year. And believe me, I fully intend to use it as a textbook in my classroom. When it comes to my students and teaching them to write research papers, I can’t think of a better book to use.
By Tom Fasano on July 18, 2009 – 7:50 am
Posted in Lessons, Life of a teacher, MLA | Comments Off
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