Modern Language Association

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers is the preferred style manual for this course and most scholarly writing in universities and colleges. The use of style guides, like the MLA Handbook, provides you with standards to follow when writing. These standards cover page formatting, language conventions, citations, spelling, punctuation, and references. Using MLA also helps you in preventing plagiarism in your writing. You may want to refer back to this topic as you complete your papers in this course.