MLA Handbook for all writers...

MLA Handbook for Writers!

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers is a wonderful asset to anyone that is serious about writing. This handbook illustrates for the writer a set of standards dealing with the completed writing of any type of research document. Be it a review, a research paper, an essay or some type of prose the MLA Handbook is a gold mine of helps.

MLA (Modern Language Association of America) is a professional organization of over 30,000 teachers of Language. This book has also become a requirement in a majority of Colleges in the United States and Canada.

This book covers a multitude of questions about writing style, such as:
· Tone
· Sentence structure
· Choice of words
· Plagiarism
· Logical steps for research
· Mechanics of writing
· Abbreviations
· Writing procedures
· Compiling a bibliography
· Taking notes
· Numbers
· Names of people
· Titles in text
· And much, much more

This handbook is designed for use in and out of the classroom. The book is divided into chapters and sections to make it easier to find specifics for your problem areas of writing. If you couple the use of this book along with Troyka’s Handbook for Writers you will have a winning team at your desk. (Troyka’s Handbook will be another review)

The main sections of the MLA handbook follow:
· Research and writing
· The mechanics of writing
· The format of the research paper
· Preparing the List of works cited
· Documenting sources
· Abbreviations and reference words
· Sample pages of a research paper

This is a wonderful handbook full of excellent information. I realize not all papers we write are research papers, but this book is a help for any type of writing. I have used it for writing Poetry when I would include a line or two from another author’s work. The MLA showed me how to incorporate it the right way.

Excellent Book! Wonderful writers assistant!