Paraphrasing and Summarizing – MLA Style
Paraphrasing and summarizing are ways of incorporating the ideas of an author into your own work. Paraphrasing is writing your understanding of a portion of a text. The paraphrased text is shorter than the original. Summarizing is writing the main ideas of a longer...
Adding or Omitting Words in Quotations (MLA)
If you are adding words or sentences that were not part of the original quotation, you will need to write them within brackets. Example (Purdue Online Writing Lab, 2022): Jan Harold Brunvand, in an essay on urban legends, states, “some individuals [who retell...
Long Quotations MLA
What is considered a long quote? Long quotations are more than four lines for prose, and more than three lines for poetry (University of Mary Washington, 2022). What is the style? It must start on a new line. The entire quote must have a one-inch left indentation....
MLA-Short Quotations
Short quotations are when you copy the exact wording from the work of others that has the length of four typed lines or fewer of prose or three lines of verse. Short quotations in your text should be enclosed with double quotation marks. You should indicate the author...
Parenthetical & Narrative In-Text Citation
A source can be incorporated in your writing using either parenthetical or narrative style in-text citations. In a parenthetical citation, you place all the information in parentheses after the quote. In a narrative citation, you name the author in your sentence...
