MLA Style Center

Summary: We worked on gathering research for your upcoming final academic presentation in July, where you get to choose what you would like to communicate in each class and present to your classmates, and how to do MLA formatting.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2026: 4:00

Thursday, May 28th, 2026: 1:00, 1:30, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026: 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026: 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

-Anaïs Nin

Documents

Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9th Edition

MLA 9th Quick Guide

Student-Sample-MLA-Paper

How to Find an Issue to Research

Instructions for Homework Content:

Homework is due the day before Communication Session_07 at 1:00 p.m., when you take photos of your notes and insert all the images in your online document under the title Research Articles #1 and #2.

Other students get to see your work and share it., research your self-selected Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic that you are passionate to write about. Please select general information or a wide reading on the issue.

Then take two to three pages of notes on Article #1 and #2 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 and concentrate on the basic information. Could you include the details of your typed MLA Works Cited next to your notes, including the URL? Please type in your Google Document above your Research Article #1 notes. There are MLA quick guides you can download and view below.

Note: Please choose your issue carefully. You should not change the topic. Changing the issue will require you to do a lot of extra homework!

MLA Works Cited Sample and MLA Note Taking Sample A on Media Manipulation:

Bradshaw, Sarah and Phillip N. Howard. The Global Disinformation Order 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation. Oxford Internet Institute: University of Oxford, 02 2019, https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/09/CyberTroop-Report19.pdf

MLA Note-taking Sample B on Gender Equality:

UNICEF. “Gender Equality.” UNICEF, https://www.unicef.org/gender-equality

Free Database Engines to collect research for your MLA Paper: 

New! 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!

“Japan has its unique set of solutions and problems when it comes to sustainability. Zenbird Media has witnessed how Japan’s ancient knowledge are widely untapped, while persistent problems continue its grip its society and environment. Of course, no country is perfect.” Zenbird.media

Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term and clicking ‘search,’ you can choose to view the results as a list, treemap, or pie chart to help you visualize your issue and narrow your search.

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 supports 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 to 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—This is specifically related 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.