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Note: This has the MLA rules from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook, 2009. 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. If you paraphrase, or restate the idea in your own words, quotation marks are not required, but documentation of the source is still required. MLA Documentation: Printed & Other Sources. MLA In-Text Citations (printable version here) Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation is used primarily for English papers and uses a parenthetical format.
This is a system of using parentheses within the body of the paper, instead of footnotes or endnotes. Don't forget to also include a Works Cited list at the end of the paper. Research and Documentation Online 5th Edition. Thousands of newspapers on the Net. OWL Site Map.