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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
See my comment above about attributive nouns. You could write either
Catholic Health Initiatives online job board
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Great point. We have revised the second example but with a slight variation so that “her” in “instructed her” has a suitable antecedent.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Yes. See the section on “Presidents” as an attributive noun in this post:
You could say “the Cubs player” if you mean “the player for the Cubs.”
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for your question, David. Pirates is plural, so the possessive is formed by adding an s: the Pirates’ owner.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Great question, Carly. You have it exactly right: the commas between the titles are not italicized, so those commas separate one title from another.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
A question mark is indeed enough punctuation in your example. There should be no period after the closing quotation mark.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for your question. See our post on citing wall text (https://style.mla.org/citing-wall-text/). As always, you should key your in-text citation to the first element of the works-cited-list entry, so for the examples shown in the post, your parenthetical citation would read “(Wall text).” If you have more than one entry that begins this way,…[Read more]
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Yes. You can find examples on pages 104-05 of the eighth edition of the handbook.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for your comment. I’m saying only one s is pronounced. If you write “Camus’ novel,” you pronounce the s. If you write “Camus’s novel,” you pronounce only one s.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for your question. In MLA style, the plural of an abbreviation is formed by adding an s: IRAs, KPIs.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
As noted above, in MLA style, proper nouns ending in s that are singular follow the general rule and add ’s, so we would write
Wayne Thomas’s Family Skate Night
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Thanks for your question. We would style the title as follows:
How to Prepare for a Snowstorm
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago
Thanks for your question. See our answer here:
Why do periods and commas go inside quotation marks in MLA style?
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Thanks for your question. The correct styling in MLA format would be
Anthropomorphization and Animal Representation: A Posthumanistic Analysis of the Harry Potter Books (since Harry Potter is the name of a series of books, not the name of a particular book).
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Great question. Technically, it’s correct, but it’s better to revise to avoid the awkwardness of an apostrophe after a closing quotation mark:
The meter of “Mending Wall” is iambic pentameter.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years ago
It would be fine to start the sentence with “fortunately” followed by a comma. Omitting the compound sentence comma before “and” might cause readers to momentarily read the sentence as “she remembered to add the commas and everyone,” so it’s probably better to include the comma.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Thanks for your question.
The rule does not relate to syllables. It is Ross’s (singular possessive), Alexis’s (singular possessive), and the Thomases’ (plural posssessive).
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
No, we still capitalize Internet and Web site.
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
The colon goes after the title in quotation marks:
“A Rose for Emily”: Northern Progress Meets Southern Tradition
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Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks for your question. In MLA style, quotation marks are not used around professional titles or titles of courses. We also lowercase professional titles: organization lead.
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