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  • I can neither explain nor defend the MLA's byzantine ideas about how material should be cited, much of which strikes me as what a congress of sadistic pedants would create. (New collective noun: a bore of pedants to go with a parliament of owls.) So…
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011
  • I think you might want to discuss that idea with the MLA and Purdue.
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011
  • Note sample page, including NYTimes: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011
  • From Purdue's OWL - http://bit.ly/9MLYtK Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources (Including Online Databases) Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Not every Web page w…
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011
  • Any standard news website, for example. WashPo, NYTimes, etc. Also, annoyingly, the MLA wants all major words of the title of an article capitalized. Understandably, Zotero imports only what's written and the titles have to be hand 'corrected.' See …
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011
  • The 2009 MLA requires listing publisher information for their full citing at the end of a paper. Zotero has no field to enter that information that I can find. (The forums here, for example, are published by Center for History and New Media.) Any fi…
    in MLA 2008/09 Update! Comment by jglickman February 13, 2011