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| Why do I Have to Write a Research Paper | |
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| Using Mla and Other Styles of Documentation | |
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| Modern Language Association (MLA) Style | |
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| American Psychological Association (APA) Style | |
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| Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago/CMS) Style | |
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| American Political Science Association (APSA) Style | |
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| Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Style | |
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| Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style | |
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| American Chemical Society (ACS) Style | |
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| American Mathematical Society (AMS) Style | |
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| Choosing a Topic And Finding Sources | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Research Strategy | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| Creating a Working Outline to Guide Your Research | |
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| Creating a Working Bibliography | |
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| Finding Sources in the Library | |
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| Searching for Sources on the Internet | |
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| Evaluating Research Sources | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Writing and Revising your Paper | |
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| Writing the Paper | |
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| Preparing a Final Outline for Your Paper | |
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| Preparing Your Works-Cited Page | |
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| Revising Your Paper | |
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| Formatting your Paper | |
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| Sample General Topic Research Paper | |
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| "The Story of Sarah Good: Guilty or Innocent?" | |
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| Sample Literary Analysis Research Paper | |
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| "An Analysis of the Character Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman." | |
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| Preparing your Bibliography | |
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| General Guidelines for Preparing Your Bibliography | |
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| Spacing of Punctuation Marks | |
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| Shortening Numbers | |
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| Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Citing Titles Correctly in a Works-Cited List | |
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| Converting All Titles to MLA-Style | |
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| Italicizing Titles in a Works-Cited List | |
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| Using Quotations Marks around a Title in a Works-Cited List | |
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| Titles Not Italicized or in Quotation Marks in the Text of a Paper | |
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| Italicizing Titles of Published Editions of Sacred Works | |
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| Formatting the Names of Parts of a Work in the Text of a Paper | |
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| Formatting the Names of Parts of a Work in a Works-Cited List | |
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| Formatting First Lines of Poems as Titles in a Works-Cited List | |
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| Formatting Titles Containing Quotations | |
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| Formatting Titles Falling inside Other Titles | |
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| Citing Books and Parts of Books | |
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| Citing Books | |
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| Citing Parts of Books | |
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| Citing Anthologies and Works in Anthologies | |
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| Citing Essays | |
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| Citing Reprinted Essays, Articles, and Excerpts | |
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| Citing Periodicals | |
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| What Is a Periodical | |
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| Citing Scholarly Journal Articles | |
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| Citing Popular Magazines | |
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| Citing Newspaper Articles | |
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| Citing Reviews from Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers | |
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| Citing Miscellaneous other Sources | |
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| A Pamphlet with an Author Given | |
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| A Pamphlet with a Corporation or Organization Listed as an Author | |
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| A Government Publication | |
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| An Unpublished Dissertation | |
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| An Unpublished Master's Thesis | |
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| A Published Dissertation | |
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| An Abstract from Dissertation Abstracts International | |
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| A Film | |
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| A Videocassette or Digital Videodisc (DVD) | |
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| A Television Program | |
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| A Television Interview | |
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| A Transcript of a Television Interview | |
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| A Radio Program | |
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| A Recording of a Classical Piece of Music | |
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| A Popular Song | |
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| Song Lyrics from an LP Liner or Compact Disc Booklet | |
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| Liner Notes or Booklet Essay from a Record or Compact Disc | |
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| A Music Video | |
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| A Map | |
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| An Advertisement in a Popular Monthly or Bimonthly Magazine | |
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| An Advertisement in a Popular Weekly or Biweekly Magazine | |
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| A Television Advertisement | |
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| A Cartoon | |
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| A Comic Strip | |
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| A Poster | |
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| A Poster Published in a Monthly Magazine | |
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| A Speech, Lecture, or Presentation | |
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| A Published Interview | |
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| A Personal Interview | |
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| A Telephone Interview | |
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| An E-Mail Interview | |
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| A Published Letter | |
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| An Unpublished Letter | |
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| A Memo | |
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| Citing Internet and Cd-Rom Sources | |
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| General Guidelines for Citing Internet Sources | |
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| Citing Online Scholarly Journals | |
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| Citing Online Popular Magazines | |
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| Citing Online Newspaper Articles | |
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| Citing Other Miscellaneous Internet Sources | |
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| Citing Materials from a CD-ROM | |
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| Citing Materials from Reference Databases | |
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| Citing Personal Subscription Databases | |
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| Citing Online Library Subscription Databases | |
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| Citing Abstracts of Articles | |
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| Citing Free Online Reference Databases | |
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| Citing Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries | |
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| Citing Articles from Print Reference Books | |
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| Citing a De?nition from a Dictionary | |
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| Citing an Article from SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) (Print Version) | |
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| Citing Microform Databases | |
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| Citing CD-ROM Databases | |
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| Parenthetical Citations | |
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| Author's Name Not Given in Your Sentence | |
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| Author's Name Given in Your Sentence | |
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| Author's Name Not Given in Source | |
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| Quotation Taken from Two Consecutive Pages | |
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| Two or More Works by the Same Author | |
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| Two Authors Not Named in Your Sentence | |
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| Three Authors Not Named in Your Sentence | |
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| Four or More Authors Not Named in Your Sentence | |
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| Works by Two Authors with the Same Last Name | |
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| Works by Two Authors with the Same Initial and Last Name | |
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| Citing Several Volumes of a Multivolume Work | |
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| Citing Paragraphs, Articles, Screen, Grids, or Items | |
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| Citing Several Works: A Work with an Organization as an Author | |
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| An Entire Work | |
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| Non-Print Sources | |
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| A Quotation from a Literary Work | |
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| Available in Many Editions | |
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| A Quotation from a Short Poem | |
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| A Quotation from a Long Poem | |
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| A Quotation from a Shakespearean or Other Classic Verse Play | |
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| A Quotation from the Bible | |
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| An Online Source | |
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| Quoting/Paraphrasing/Summarizing from an Indirect Source | |
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| General Knowledge of a Subject: No Parenthetical Citation Needed | |
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| Punctuating Parenthetical Citations: Short Quotations | |
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| Punctuating Parenthetical Citations: Long, Block Quotations | |
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| Endnotes and Footnotes | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Short Quotations | |
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| Long, Block Quotations | |
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| Indenting Paragraphs in a Block Quotation | |
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| Quoting Dialogue from a Novel or Short Story: Short Quotations | |
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| Quoting Dialogue from a Play: Short Quotations | |
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| Quoting Dialogue from a Play: Long Quotations | |
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| Quoting Poetry: Short Quotations | |
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| Quoting Poetry: Long Quotations | |
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| Parenthetical Citation for a Short Poetry Quotation | |
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| Parenthetical Citation for a Long, Block Poetry Quotation | |
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| Using an Ellipsis to Omit Lines of Poetry | |
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| Using Square Brackets in Quotations | |
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| Use Brackets to Explain Something That Might Be Unclear to Your Reader or to Give Additional Information | |
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| Use Brackets to Clarify a Pronoun | |
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| Use Brackets to Change Verb Tenses | |
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| Use Brackets to Change a Capital Letter to a Lowercase Letter | |
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| Use Brackets to Change a Lowercase Letter to a Capital Letter | |
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| Use [sic] to Indicate an Error in Your Source | |
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| Do Not Use [sic] after Intentional Errors such as Dialect Spellings | |
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| Using an Ellipsis to Omit Words | |
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| No Ellipsis Is Needed with Quoted Phrases | |
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| Omitting Words from the Beginning of a Quoted Sentence | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Words in the Middle of a Sentence in a Short Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Words at the End of a Sentence in a Short Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Words at the End of a Sentence in a Short Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit One or Several Sentences from the Middle of a Block Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Material from the Middle of One Sentence to the End of Another in a Block Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Material from the Middle of One Sentence to the Middle of Another Sentence in a Block Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Material from the End of a Block Quotation | |
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| Using a Bracketed Ellipsis | |
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| Bracketed Ellipsis Used to Omit Material from a Quotation Already Containing an Ellipsis | |
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| Bracketed Ellipsis Used to Omit Materials from a Critical Analysis Containing an Indirect Quotation Already Containing an Ellipsis | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit One or More Lines from a Block Poetry Quotation | |
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| Ellipsis Used to Omit Material from the End of a Block Poetry Quotation | |
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| Punctuating Quotations | |
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| Using Single Quotation Marks Inside Double Quotation Marks | |
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| Altering End Punctuation | |
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| Placing Commas and Periods Inside Ending Quotation Marks | |
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| Placing Commas and Periods Inside Single and Double Ending Quotation Marks | |
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| Placing Semicolons and Colons Outside Ending Quotation Marks | |
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| Placing Question Marks and Exclamation Points When Used with Ending Quotation Marks | |
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| Punctuating a Short Quotation Ending in a Question Mark or an Exclamation Point | |
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| Punctuating Quotation Lead-Ins | |
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| Paraphrasing and Summarizing | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Summarizing | |
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| Choosing What to Paraphrase or Summarize | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Plagiarizing Papers from the Internet | |
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| MLA-Recommended Abbreviations | |
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| General Guidelines | |
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| Shortening the Names of Publishers | |
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| Works Consulted | |