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smaointe
smaointe
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High School - 11th Grade

How do you cite a response to an enotes discussion group post in MLA format?

I am writing an essay and I am not sure if I use the name of the person who posted it as the author or if it is something else.

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Posted by smaointe on Monday June 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM and tagged with mla citation, reference.

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  1. michael336 Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    Post the writer's name, the subject headline (including "Re"), "Online Posting," website's name, date of posting, then cut-paste complete address.

    Roberts, Edgar A., Writing About Literature, 11th Edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc. 2006. p.316

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    Posted by michael336 on Monday June 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM

  2. krishna-agrawala
    krishna-agrawala Teacher
    Graduate School

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    The rules of citing as per MLA format are same for any piece of writing, including responses in enotes. Before I start talking about the actual rules for citing as per MLA format, it is important that we understand the difference between citing and referencing. Citing means identifying the source of any borrowed material in your writing which is given in the text itself. Reference refers to a separate list of the sources cited with additional details that enable the reader to locate the sources cited.

    The MLA style of citing and referencing has been developed and standardized byModern Language Association and is widely used around the World.

    The intext citation gives the last name of the author or authors followed by the page number from which the the matter is taken is given in the text. this can be done in several different ways. The complete citation may be given at the end of the paragaph containig the cited material before the full stop. The complete citation is enclosed within parenthesis. Alternatively, if name of author is identified in the sentence itself, only the page number iss given at the end.

    The references are given at the end of the work starting on a new page and tiled "Works Cited"

    The reference list contains the followinf information for each work cited:

    • Last name of tha author followed by initials.
    • Title of book in italics.
    • Place of publication
    • Publisher
    • Year of Publication.

     

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 2:54 AM