Style: The MLA Way Guidelines from Keys for Writers   What's the Purpose of MLA?

• Documentation of sources is necessary not just in research papers but in any written work that contains information from or references to texts outside itself.
  
  
• MLA citations function to:
  - lead your reader to the part of a text you focus on,
  - and help your reader to distinguish between your ideas and reasoning and those you derive from other sources.

How Do I Use MLA?

• MLA documentation calls for short parenthetical references in the body of the paper and a list of works cited at the end.
  

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