MLA Style Center

Summary: The students learned more about formatting the Modern Language Association (MLA) Works Cited. Then, collaboratively, we made sure you know more about the steps of the research process, the key terms of academic writing, narrowing down a research topic, finding reliable and solid research material, and taking valuable notes. We also carefully considered and followed the activities of the Alex Essay Writing Tool, with steps 7 – 8, to focus on your close reading.

Review of the Outline of our Research Process:

1. Basic Information -Wide reading
2. Causes -Wide reading
3. Further Examples or Case Studies – Close reading
4. Effects -Close reading
5. Solutions -Close reading

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

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 07: Close reading

Alex Essay Writing Tool Step 08: Give your material order

MLA Note Taking Sample:

Wong, Yu, Hussey Freeland, Deborah M., and Kari C. Nadeau. “Food Allergy: Immune  Mechanisms, Diagnosis and

Immunotherapy”, Nature Reviews Immunology 16, 31 October, 2016, pp. 751–765.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nri.2016.111

Homework is due by 1:00 p.m. the day before Session_09. Please take photos of your notes and insert them in your shared online document under Research Articles #6 & #7. If you are behind, upload them to your shared online document. Then, your teacher can edit your MLA Works Cited if needed.

MLA Quick Guide

Student-Sample-MLA-Paper

How to Find an Issue to Research

Free Database Engines for research on 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 lets you 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.

Learning About Global Issues—This explicitly relates to Chuo University Faculty of Law English courses and provides 18 core global issues. I got permission. Thank you, Chuo U, for the Sadai students.

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!