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- OWL@Purdue - Purdue University's Online Writing LabGuides to help with MLA and other citation styles as well as writing tips.
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Guide Acknowledgements and Works Cited
Thank You
This Online MLA 8th ed. guide is based on a guide developed at Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University by Joy Gambill. We thank her for her willingness to share content. It was then further adapted by the Cosumnes River College Library, to whom we are very grateful for sharing it with us.
Works Cited for this Guide
“Formatting a Research Paper.” The MLA Style Center, Modern Language Association, 2016, style.mla.org/formatting-papers/. Accessed 1 Aug. 2016.
Gambill, Joy. "MLA 8th ed. Style Guide." Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, 2016, guides.zsr.wfu.edu/c.php?g=530709&p=3630103. Accessed 1 Sept. 2016.
"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab/OWL at Purdue/Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/. Accessed 23 June 2016.
"MLA Style Guide 8th Edition." Cosumnes River College Library, Cosumnes River College, 2016, researchguides.crc.losrios.edu/mla8. Accessed 19 January 2017.
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., The Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
“Works Cited: A Quick Guide.” The MLA Style Center, Modern Language Association, 2016, style.mla.org/formatting-papers/. Accessed 1 Aug. 2016.
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