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Unfamiliar Genre Project: MLA Citations

Built for Dr. Jones-Pierce's "Unfamiliar Genres" assignment for ENG 313 (Advanced Rhetoric), this guide will help you navigate useful sources for exploring the idea of genre, specific genres, examples of genres to read in full, as well as research materia

In-Text Citation Basics

It gets no easier, when it comes to citing, than MLA in-text citations. (Ask your professor whether I am joking about this.)

Most importantly, deploy that citation WHEN YOU USE THE INFORMATION. Like, right in the sentence, right in the paragraph, right there, yo.

If, for example, I were citing the article in the box to the right, I'd mention it right after making a reference to something I learned in it.

Specifically, and for example:

Some writers have noted that views of Louisiana have undergone rapid change over the past twenty years (Fernandez 2017).

Note that I don't need to include much. Author's last name, year of the publication I'm referring to, and a page number (for direct quotations) are all that are needed. this would be the same EVEN IF I were not paraphrasing, i.e., using a chunk of someone else's text (in "").

Works Cited citation Basics

Article from a journal basic form:

Fernandez, Mark F. “Atlantic Identities: New Views of Louisiana in Global Perspective.” Early American Literature, vol. 52, no. 3, Sept. 2017, p. 709.

Note that you should indent after the first line; sorry for the bad formatting here.