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MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd Edition |  | Author: Modern Language Association
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
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Product Description
Reorganized and revised, the third edition of the MLA Style Manual offers complete, up-to-date guidance on writing scholarly texts, documenting research sources, submitting manuscripts to publishers, and dealing with legal issues surrounding publication. New in the third edition:
* a significant revision of MLA documentation style
* simplified citation formats for electronic sources
* detailed advice on the review process used by scholarly journals and presses
* a fully updated chapter on copyright, fair use, contracts, and other legal issues
* guidelines on preparing electronic files
* discussion of the electronic submission of a dissertation
* a foreword by Domna C. Stanton on the current state of scholarly publishing
* a preface by David G. Nicholls on what is new in the third edition
MLA guides present the most accurate and complete information on MLA style.
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 the perfect reference source April 20, 2000
105 out of 107 found this review helpful
This book is the ultimate guide for writers. It is one of two books published by the Modern Language Association, and of the two, this one provides the complete guide to the MLA style. This book serves graduate students and scholarly writers best. It discusses publishing and legality as well as basics of writing and source citations. Many examples accompany the explanations clearly exhibiting the proper usage; however, this book is not necessary for the average research writer or undergraduate. If you are looking for a quick reference guide to proper MLA style, this is not the book for you. I would recommend the MLA HANDBOOK. The MLA HANDBOOK provides an easier, condensed version of the MLA STYLE MANUAL. This book is a waste of your money if all you need is information on how to do a works cited page or an annotated bibliography. The handbook is cheaper and would serve you much better. Regardless, the manual would serve anyone well and is a perfect reference book for anyone's personal library.
Advanced MLA Style October 28, 2003
Debbie Lee Wesselmann (the Lehigh Valley, PA)
44 out of 45 found this review helpful
Gibaldi's MLA STYLE MANUAL AND GUIDE TO SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING describes itself perfectly. This fine reference book is designed for academics in the humanities who must adhere to the MLA style when writing papers, both for publication and advanced coursework. Not an introduction to MLA style, this book aims to guide the reader through the finer intricacies of scholarly writing by covering topics such as the proper use of punctuation, including slashes, square brackets, and semi-colons; using proper names from non-English speaking countries; questions of capitalization; abbreviations; and language and style. The author devotes an entire section to the legal issues of publishing academic papers, and another to thesis and dissertation formats. Perhaps the most detailed and helpful section concerns documentation and the format for citations, from corporate papers to electronic sources to books without page numbers. For those preparing for publication, the author offers practical guidelines for formatting manuscripts. Gibaldi's explanations are always clear and precise.I highly recommend this manual for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professors in the humanities. (Scientific style is somewhat different.) If you are just beginning to familiarize yourself with MLA style, you might feel more comfortable with Gibaldi's other stylebook, MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS.
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing November 12, 2008
M. Horey (Northridge, CA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book does everything it is advertised to do.
A fault of the book: The book (on p. 214) should clarify what is considered the "title" of a web-page: Is it that which is written on the title bar, or the actual title heading the text?
However, I do not like the MLA citation style. In-text citations are much more intrusive than are footnotes or endnotes. They are also more difficult for the reader to match to the writer's documentation, if, for instance, the writer is using several works from the same source (e.g., the same government agency, where author's names are not usually given). In such a case, especially if the titles of the cited works are similar, the long title would have to be inserted parenthetically in the text, instead of just having a footnote number. It is a cumbersome citation style.
MLA February 26, 2009
lit crit (Denver)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the real deal on MLA. Don't pay more for an abridged version of MLA "enhanced" with filler.
Reference book December 1, 2008
J. Martin (Roxboro, NC USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a freelance copyeditor I have to make sure the ms. is in the editor's requested format. Some of my work must be in the MLA style and this book is the best reference book available. I used the 2nd edition and when I got another job requesting MLA style, I ordered the 3rd edition.
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