Research Guides: Language, Writing & Rhetoric: Evaluating and citing your sources

Evaluating and Citing Your Sources

Consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers or the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, left, for the most complete information on how to cite your sources. The web pages below may also provide helpful information and examples:

Evaluating Sources of Information
OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab guide to evaluating sources of information.
Annotated Bibliographies
OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab guide to preparing annotated bibliographies
MLA Style Center:: Works Cited a Quick Guide
A quick guide to the 2016, 8th edition of the MLA Handbook
Citation Tools
Includes a link to OWL at Purdue's website which includes guides for the most commonly used styles, including the MLA.

MLA Handbooks

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: McKeldin Library Services Desk LB2369 .G53 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing by Modern Language Association
Call Number: Mckeldin Library Reference PN147 .G444 2008

Other helpful tools

Citation Management Tools
Online bibliographic management program that allows users to create a personal database of references and generate bibliographies in a variety of formats. Users must sign up for an individual account.
Organizing your research
Strategies and tools from the Reseach Commons that can help you keep track of high level research.