A brief reference in your text that indicates clearly the source consulted with little interruption in text.
-Usually placed within a parenthesis with the author’s name and a page number.
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In-text paragraph |
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Author with page number
Pg. 54 of MLA Handbook |
If author is mentioned in the text, provide the page number |
According to Naomi Baron, reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (194). One might even suggest that reading is never complete without writing. |
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If author is not mentioned in the text, provide the author’s name and page number |
Reading is “just half of the literacy. The other half is writing” (Baron 194). One might even suggest that reading is never complete without writing.
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Title (or abbreviation) with page number
Pg. 56 of MLA Handbook |
Author is anonymous or author is also the publisher |
Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America notes that despite an apparent decline in reading during the same period, “the number of people doing creative writing- of any genre, not exclusively literary works- increased substantially between 1982 and 2002” (3)
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Despite an apparent decline in reading during the same period, “the number of people doing creative writing- of any genre, not exclusively literary works- increased substantially between 1982 and 2002” (Reading 3)
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Author, paragraph number
Pg. 56 of MLA Handbook |
If your source uses explicit paragraph numbers instead of page numbers, precede with par. or pars. |
There is little evidence here for the claim that “Eagleton has belittled the gains of postmodernism” (Chan, par.41) |