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When you use the words or original ideas of another person in your writing, you need to document, or give credit to, the sources of those words or ideas. If exact words from the original are used, quotation marks are necessary.
Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation is used primarily for English papers and uses a parenthetical format.
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