MLA document design
What is an MLA document?
MLA document design
What is an MLA document?
nts5.
This paper uses footnotes instead of MLA in-text citations like you will use. If you were to use a paraphrase from a source like this, you would put (Campbell 76) in place of the 5. Campbell is the author and 76 is the page number.
(Manning 2014c, p. 1158)
This is an example of an APA citation that uses a page number. The MLA version would look like this (Manning 1158). 1158 is the page number.
(Duggan 2013).
This article is using APA. We are learning MLA in this class this semester. The MLA citation would delete the year (2013) and only inlclude the author's last name (Duggan).
a new MLA style for the network age
MLA for digital
Don’t we have to actually read the books, before saying what the patterns discovered in them mean?
Yes, of course. But it's ironic that this three post tirade begins with a rather distant reading of the MLA program.
Commentary as a practice of annotation that not only helps readers comprehend a text but also facilitates its critical evaluation elucidates the relevance of the text for a particular readership and establishes or promotes specific interpretations.
I think like we're working with a very limited (even if acknowledged) definition of commentary/annotation. We're really just talking about expert analysis laid over a text, which is nothing new, though as pointed out below this tradition can achieve a new dynamism in the online environment.
What I think is more interesting about annotation and the digital humanities is the potential for readers themselves to become truly active contributors to the knowledge surrounding the texts--not simply served explanation for their relatively passive comprehension.
On compiling an annotated bibliography / James L. Harner
reference on annotated bibliography
In fact, the year has been somewhat encouraging on that front. Upon returning from Washington in January, I reported on the New Faculty Majority summit for Inside Higher Ed
Found here.