MLA Literature Paper (Larson) Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006). Marginal annotations indicate MLA-style formatting and effective writing. The opening lines name the story and establish context. Present tense is used to describe details from the story. Quotations from the story are cited with page numbers in parentheses. The opening paragraph ends with Larson’s research question. Quotation from a secondary source: author is named in a signal phrase; page number is given in parentheses. The thesis asserts Larson’s main point. Larson 1
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A long quotation isset off by indenting;no quotation marksare needed; ellipsisdots indicate a sen-tence omitted fromthe source.
Larson summa-rizes ideas from asecondary sourceand then quotesfrom that source;he names the author in a signalphrase and gives a page number in parentheses.