Our friends and enemies: MLA style requirements and plagiarisms

Intelligent use of source material is the heart of research writing. Use quotations only when you feel that the original wording will add significantly to your point. You must interpret and evaluate the rest of the used materials by providing commentary to clarify points and to assert your own conclusions. It is important to acknowledge every source you use and every single piece of information you borrow from other researchers not to commit the deadly sin of plagiarizing.

Plagiarism takes place when you present words and ideas of other people as your own. Types of plagiarism are different and sometimes not so obvious: word-for-word copying, copying of a single main phrase, paraphrasing or summarizing without mentioning the author’s name, mosaic plagiarism (when words or whole phrases are added, altered or shifted around). Plagiarism is an honors-code violation. It can often serve as grounds for a failing grade for a paper or the whole course or even for expulsion.

How to avoid plagiarisms:

think A LOT about your paper;
separate your own ideas from the source thoughts;
be courteous to the pioneers of the question.

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In order to identify all the sources you have quoted from in your essay, you need a style of documentation. Styles of documentation are established by professional societies and journals to regularize the citing of sources in each field. MLA style is recommended by the Modern Language Association for research papers on Humanities. MLA style presupposes internal (parenthetical) citation. It includes two steps: citing each source in parentheses as you use it in the very text, and making a list of Works Cited at the end of your paper.

How to cite (to see the full range of possibilities consult the MLA handbook itself):

a book. A citation in the text includes the author’s last name and the page number(s) without comma between them. In case you use the author’s name in a sentence, do not put that name in parentheses. Place your references as close to the information you identify as possible.
an article. Write the underlined title of the periodical and the page(s) without comma between them.

How to list:

a book. There are three main divisions in the entry, separated by periods: the author’s last name, comma, first name; the underlined (or in italics) title; the publishing data (city of publication, colon, name of publisher, comma, year of publication).
an article. Write the author’s last name, comma, first name; put the title of the article in quotation marks and underline or italicize the title of the periodical; its date, colon, page.

Works Cited is an alphabetical list of all the sources used, done on a separate page. Don’t number your sources and don’t separate books from periodicals. The first line of each entry starts at the left margin. Within each entry all the other lines are indented five spaces. Within entries and between them you are to double-space.

MLA requirements of the final copy are:

Font: Times New Roman 12 point or any other similar book font (e.g. Courier New);
Standard page size of 8 1/2 x 11 inches;
Double spaced text with no extra spaces in between paragraphs;
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