Product Description

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This handbook is ideal for preparing undergraduate essays. It was specifically designed with the average student's needs in mind. The book is intended to cover the vast majority of situations that the normal student will encounter while writing an essay.

Organized for speed and brevity, the book is primarily a concentrated, up-to-date guide on MLA format (6 pages), documentation requirements (13 pages In-Text, 19 pages Works Cited entries) with a heavy emphasis on examples and visual aids (85 to be exact). Additionally the book contains pointers on how to get started, what to document, what notes to take (by source type), and how to handle quotes of varying length. All of this information is contained in a book designed to fit in a shirt pocket.

Product Dimensions: 54 Pages - 5 5/16" x 3 3/4" x .166 "

Continuously Updated - Coincides with most recent MLA standards (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition).

Latest Update 07/15/09

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23158 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 54 pages

About the Author
Jill Rossiter, the author of The MLA Pocket Handbook, is a highly experienced and recognized expert in the field of English Composition. Her credentials include a BA in English Literature (Cum Laude) and an MA in English Literature (WSU). Jill has been involved in creating numerous conventional and online English learning systems for organizations as diverse as the Intensive English Institute, Independent Study in Idaho, and the University of Phoenix. She is a firm believer in keeping instructions simple, and has a straight-forward, easy-to-comprehend writing style.

Customer Reviews

MLA microhandbook
Quick and concise for a paper due tomorrow or just for a quick review of the basics. Its much easier to get a hold of the MLA thing with this book and then move on to the bigger more explanatory ones later. It will fit into your back pocket or even your top shirt pocket. Its that small.

perfect amount of info
if you are doing any college work that requires mla type of documentation, this little handbook is very helpful. it is not too much information and it gives important updated info for internet based works cited.

Very Cheaply Made and Not Too Helpful
I just received this book and it is no where near worth the money spent. It seems like a good deal and then you get it only to realize it sucks. It is very cheap and poorly made, looks like it wouldn't last very long at all. The text in it is faded and slanted on almost every page. I don't know why anyone would think the content of it is helpful either. It gives barely any information compared to the real MLA Handbook. I knew when I bought it I wasn't going to get all the information as the real handbook but I never expected it to be only like 5% of the information, maybe not even that. The description says it was "organized for speed and brevity" but I found the organization extremely annoying and hard to find what I was looking for quickly. Overall, it was just a horrible disappointment! I will be returning it!