MLA Style Center

Summary: Students discussed their research with two sets of pairs and edited their notes and MLA Works Cited.

Documents:

Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition

MLA 9th Quick Guide

“If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.”

Wilson Mizner

Homework is due by 1 p.m. the day before Workshop_05. Please take photos of your notes and insert them into the Google document provided for Workshop 4. Other students can see your work and share it.

Instructions for Homework Content:

1. Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic that you are passionate about writing. These are notes on Articles #7 and #8. Then, take two pages of notes for each article using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. Try to summarize your work. Please type your MLA Work Cited so I can edit them.

Free Database Engines off Campus to collect research for your MLA Paper: 

Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can see the results as a list, treemap, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search simultaneously.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides access to robust, open-access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent and free, including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors; you might find research that provides evidence for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine focusing on high-quality applications and submissions.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also enables you to cite your “references” for APA and “works cited” for MLA!

CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access to 1-This website is very informative and easy to understand, where you might find research on your issue from Professor Andy Barfield:

Learning About Global Issues–Specifically about Chuo University Faculty of Law English courses, this website has been designed by Andy Barfield and his research team to support student research in the Basic Research and Writing. More generally, his team hopes that this website will help students and people in Japan (and other countries) develop their knowledge and critical understanding of different global issues. Thank you, Andy!

Zenbird Media: Topics & Issues: Do you often think about researching issues related to your local community, or Japan in general, but find the data in the Japanese language. Then, Zenbird Media is for you!

2. An option to work on a Write & Improve practice essay:

Five improved essays are due by the end of the Semester. You can choose the essays and the time of writing freely, but write and improve on no more than one essay each week.