Description
This is a one-week intensive course offered year-round and focusing on conducting research and using scholarly sources in MLA Style.
MLA Style is required in most Humanities courses like English, Literature, Language Arts, Philosophy, Communications, and Theatre. This course is focused on MLA formatting of in-text citations, the Works Cited page, and general settings for the title page and body paragraphs. To learn the research process from beginning to end, students are encouraged to enroll in Writing about Current Events: Managing Media in a Hyperconnected World as an accompanying course.
In this one-week intensive, skills taught include:
- finding primary and secondary sources
- incorporating source materials into your text
- acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism
- documentation
- MLA in-text documentation
- MLA notes
- MLA list of Works Cited
