MLA BibBuilder: Create Works Cited Entries by Filling in a Form

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• When will you update to MLA 8?

• This was my first attempt at using your website to learn how to cite well after a long struggle to find easy citing instructions. This is a definite life saver for me and I am grateful to the women in South Africa

• I was wanting to ask this about when writing paragraphs in your research paper. Our teacher only wants us to do a research paper with ten resources. 5 traditional and 5 can be on line and so on. Here is my question. When writing my paragraphs. Can my one paragraph have more than just what is on my note card right. I'm just a little confused on us having to use our note cards and put that info into the paragraph or is the note cards just extra information and we don't copy that into our paragraphs right? I been out of college a long time so doing a research paper is a lot as of right now but I'm getting just not as fast as some. we have 3 weeks to finish this lol. Still working on resources. I have 8 so far.

  • MLA style doesn’t have any specific guidelines on the contents of note cards or how they are used. Your teacher is making sure that you are paying attention to the writing process, which is a valuable, long-term effort— not something you can blow through in one sitting. Exactly how your teacher asks you to use notecards is really something you should bring up during class or during an office visit. I don’t require my students to use note cards at all, but I have them do other prewriting activities that serve the same purpose, and students often ask me to clarify points about exactly what I expect from their prewriting activities. I can give you encouragement but I’m afraid only your teacher can answer your specific question. It sounds like you have started well in advance of the deadline, so the two of you should have plenty of time to work this out. Good luck!

• great help! Thank you very much!

• I need to site a quote by a person written in an article in a magazine

  • One of the options at the top of the page is "Article." I hope it helps.

• My son has a science project due Monday and it is to be in power point presentation, to include researching the topic of a chosen planet, create the power point presentation for the class. The presentation should consist of at least 10 slides(1 being a bibliography, according to MLA format) and address12 questions the teacher has listed regarding the planet. It states to save work , including works cited, write down ALL sources of information that you use. USE MLA FORMAT. My question is I have never done a power point presentation in MLA Format and is the one slide that is the bibliography, the works cited slide at the end of the power point? Is there any web pages with examples of how to correctly do this in a power point in MLA Format?

  • I can only guess why a science slide show would use the format created by the Modern Language Association for essays, but this page may help. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/mla-style-papers/

• Love it! Thank you

• Love the citation builder. I am working on a 30 plus page action research paper for my masters degree, this thing saved my life!

• This works great, there just needs a couple of adjustments if they can be made.Some teachers are more particular than others, most suggest to use Owl @ Purdue as a guideline. For unlucky students, like me, you can get the one teacher that the smallest mistake is just a complete fail.
  Okay here is my feedback, because MLA editions change and the most updated version is "MLA Written Handbook 7th Edition." When the citation is complete it should be in a more word document efficient place instead of an adjusted text box.
  It doesnt always emphasize or copy the Italics correctly, which is important if quoting a book.Most teachers don;t require you to use a reference from a book considering the digital age; however, strict ones do. But MOST IMPORTANTLY!!! This does not indent correctly! First sentence should not be indented, the rest are indented until end of that citation.Then all requirements also use a double spaced paper, including works cited/references.

  • I can't believe how teachers stress over the stupid details of a citation. What a waste of life. I get that it needs to be clear, consistent and generally in a widely adopted format, but picking apart the formatting is just crazy, unless its some type of language composition class, where the content is specifically covering correct citations. Its only snobby academics who really care if every little detail is in perfect adherence to their preferred format. I haven't attended Ivy league schools, but most of my teachers have accepted anything that resembles MLA. Except the teachers who were teaching us MLA at City college, they expected perfection.

    • If you believe the details are stupid, then it does not surprise me you don't agree with teachers who treat the details as important (to the rubric, to mastering a skill, to participating in an intellectual community).

  • You are right -- simply copy-pasting the text from the screen won't leave you with a perfectly formatted page, but this page shows the few steps you will need to follow, in order to add the proper formatting. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/mla-style-papers/#works-cited

• i like it cause what u say is funny i meanif u are going to be rill tell your child no if i was a parent i would