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| Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Category: Book
List Price: $17.50
Buy New: $13.30
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 100
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0873529863
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.027
EAN: 9780873529860
Publication Date: May 2003
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 A definite reference for College students. January 29, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I use this book almost in daily basis. As a graduate student - I write several journal articles and research papers weekly. This book is my primary reference book when I edit the final draft copy. If you are in college - I suggest you should invest the money and get this book - you will need this book many times for proper referencing, quotation, and correct punctuation style.
 thank god they updated it! March 3, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
After staring at the 5th edition through a 4 year B.A., and continuing to refer to it into my graduate degree, I am SO glad they put out a new edition with an update on citing the internet. Hopefully they will have updated some of the other things that are missing for university students who want to work beyond a basic level research paper. Definitely worth keeping within reach if you have to write any Humanities paper
The General Handbook on Writing. February 2, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The MLA Handbook is THE handbook used for writing in high school and colleges across the United States. The APA handbook comes in 2nd place, but it can't stand up to the MLA Handbook. English teachers across the country swear by it, and despite what people might think, English teachers do have a great deal of clout when it comes to writing with the mass populace. There have been a few minor changes that the MLA has made since publishing this edition. Nevertheless, this is the latest edition and until edition 7 comes around, this will be the handbook on writing and researching that tons of students across the country will become familiar. A good resource.
A great guide to a great style August 31, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The MLA (Modern Language Association) style is my preferred style for writing papers - both in terms of citation and in terms of overall format. While I must confess to making small changes (based on my British English background and preference), I still adhere to most of the MLA standards when it comes to putting together research papers.
This is a guide that is useful not only for writing, but also for researching. There is a section that discusses researching both in a library and online. The guide then gives a refresher course in grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph construction, and other elements of style that are useful in the general academic paper.
By far the most useful part of this guide is the section that shows how to reference in footnotes, endnotes, in-line/in-text citations and proper documentation of sources. While there are few elements due to new media (how does one reference a video on MPG format that doesn't actually reside on a website?) that might not be covered, this guide is fairly comprehensive when it comes to in-print, internet, and other media resources.
For undergraduate students, graduate students, academic writers and general writers, the MLA style is easy to follow, fairly intuitive in approach, and comprehensible even by those not training in such styles.
 Useless Crap and the Pinnacle of Busy Work January 10, 2006
6 out of 99 found this review helpful
There are some things in life that I just do not understand at all. Being this detailed in citing a reference is one of them. People, let's all think about this logically for a moment. Someone is writing a term paper for high school or college. This person obviously does a lot of research, spends time editing his grammar and the way the paper flows, and making sure all of his points are accurate and effective. He has spent mich time putting his notes together and typing his research into a fully comprehensible paper. After all of this, he wastes a lot of time looking up how to "correctly" cite a source.
What I don't understand is why you can't just do something like write down the author's name and the title so that if anyone wanted to go back to the original source, they can. This would work a lot better than wondering what gets underlined, what gets quotes, where all of the puntuation marks go, and every single minute detail this book worries so much about. Certainly this would not be considered plagiarism in a society that thinks logically because you are giving credit where credit is due, and anyone can go back and check what publishing company and city and year your book is from if need be.
It is a sad day for mankind when we get extremely picky over how we're going to cite sources. An author and the title would be plenty. This book is busy work in its worst form. It spends time that is needleslly wasted.
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