As a college student and essay writer, you must have heard a million times about the necessity to properly cite sources to avoid plagiarism. It is mandatory for both direct quotations and paraphrased summaries of someone else's ideas you allude to within paper. However, there is no one uniform way to cite your sources. Here is where confusion begins. Academia acknowledges multiple styles – APA, MLA, Chicago-Turabian, Oxford, Vancouver, etc. In this post, we will discuss how to correctly cite your source according to the Modern Language Association's guidelines (hence, MLA.) We will talk about details of in-text and full citations, how to cite multiple sources for one piece of information, how to cite two different sources in the same sentence MLA-style, and details you must provide for print and non-print sources, such as website articles, videos, and other multimedia. Continue reading
What Is The Difference Between MLA and APA?
When you start college and get your first assignments, you understand that formatting your paper is almost as important as researching and writing it. You can get your points taken away or even get your paper back for revision and corrections because of the wrong or inconsistent style. There are dozens of citation and writing styles, but APA and MLA are the most significant and widespread across colleges and universities in the USA. They share many similarities, which is probably the reason why many students find it so confusing and often cannot tell the difference between MLA and APA citation. Continue reading
How to Cite a Book in APA Style
When the writing is over and done with, your paper is still far from being ready for submission. Now you have to format it following the guideline from your instructor or your writing center and, of course, furnish it with the correct APA citation list. This may not be the most important stage of the work but it is still significant since the points might be taken from you for not doing the formatting properly and not providing a proper APA citation for a book you’ve been quoting in a paper. How do you cite a book in APA and what APA even means? Continue reading
