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A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation
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Item Description...
Product Description
A CONCISE GUIDE TO MLA STYLE AND DOCUMENTATION is an affordable and classroom-tested resource that provides only the information students need most often and -- according to the author's own students -- is easier to use than the actual MLA Handbook. This edition incorporates several major changes from the new MLA Handbook, Seventh Edition. It also has a two-color design, a numbering system, and an index to help students find information quickly and easily. Here students will discover useful advice on gathering sources, compiling notes, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting properly, and avoiding plagiarism.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 48
Dimensions: Length: 10" Width: 7" Height: 0.3"
Weight: 0.3 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 14, 2009
ISBN 0982129815
EAN 9780982129814
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 | A Good MLA Style Book for High School Students Nov 27, 2009 |
My son's 12th grade English teacher introduced the MLA style to her classes this month and my son first paper was full of red ink corrections. He said MLA was difficult to use because the available references were written primarily for college students. The MLA books and the internet sites had much more detail than the average high school student needed and were overwhelming to research.
Reading the reviews of the other MLA reference books on this site.com identified similar problems. When I came across Thomas Fasano's "MLA, A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation," there were no reader review opinions yet. What attracted me to buy this book was the knowledge that Mr. Fasano was a high school English teacher in California. After grading his share of English papers, Mr. Fasano would probably know the common MLA style mistakes of high school students.
I ordered the book on this site.com and it arrived two days later. I thought it was a little expensive for a pamphlet of 40 pages, but it was well organized, simple to read, and easy to research. There's also an index at the end of the book to send the student to the right pages. The book has the 2009 MLA updates.
I showed the book to my son and he was immediately impressed. His biggest problem with MLA was properly citing and using the sources of his research. Mr. Fasano dedicated 21 pages of 40 pages in his book to these problem areas. They include: Chapter 2, Sample Entries, The List of Works Cited; Chapter 3, Citing Sources in the Text; and Chapter 4,Footnotes and Endnotes.
In Chapter 2, Sample Entries, The List of Works Cited, the chapter was organized with 141 citation examples by categories including Nonperiodical Print Publications, Periodical Print Publications, Web Publications, Web Sites with Print Publication Data, Web Sites with Publication Data for Other Media Besides Print, Web-Based Scholarly Journals, Web Publications in Online Databases, and Additional Common Sources. My son said the book had everything he needed.
The book also included information on formatting the paper in MLA style, evaluating the sources of information, plagiarism, summarizing and paraphrasing sources, abbreviations, and other good writing tips for high school writers.
The best news was my son's improved confidence in writing, knowing that his papers now at least met the requirements of the MLA style. He could now focus on his paper's content and presentation.
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