Additional Thoughts on MLA

One of the important points about all this emphasis on correctly citing your resources using MLA,is that students are demonstrating that they are actually LOOKING at the handout and possibly thinking about the differences/variations that may occur in citing a resource. The handout provided in this course is an ADAPTATION of how WE (as library faculty) of what is the best way to cite these resources using MLA. Other MCTC instructors may differ in their interpretations of how to cite these resources and of course follow what they direct. Be flexible. It is not YOU. You are not going crazy. The reason, of course, for citing these resources is to assist a person, who is reading your paper, can locate the resources again. The rationale for NOT including a URL in the subscription reference resources such as CQ and replacing it with the name of the organization subscribing to it (in this case MCTC) is to show your readers that this IS a database that is not free and that yuou will have to have some connection with MCTC in order to view the articles (with a student i.d andp password). If the URL for CQ for examples IS clicked on and a person does not have a connection with MCTC, she will be taken to a login screen for the database itself (not the login for MCTC). The database now assumes the reader has personally subscribed to the databases and has a PRIVATE not an student institution (MCTC) account to the database.