MLA Style

Style guides are manuals that provide standard rules and guidelines for the language, formatting, and citations in a paper. Using a style guide is important because it takes the “guess work” out of what you need to include. It also helps to protect you against plagiarism, in that each style guide has rules for how to cite information from other sources. MLA Style is most popular with literature courses, and you will be using it for all assignments throughout this course.