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    How do you MLA cite a person?
    Christopher Taylor, PhD
    English Professor
    Christopher Taylor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Austin Community College in Texas. He received his PhD in English Literature and Medieval Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.
    English Professor
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    To cite words spoken directly by an individual, use the MLA citation rules for a personal interview. For a personal interview, you include the name of the person interviewed, the date of the interview, and the phrase "personal interview."
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    How do you MLA cite a PDF?
    Christopher Taylor, PhD
    English Professor
    Christopher Taylor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Austin Community College in Texas. He received his PhD in English Literature and Medieval Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.
    English Professor
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    You can treat a pdf as a printed resource. So, in other words, cite a pdf based on what it is a pdf of: an article, a short story, an interview transcript, etc.
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    How do you cite a television show in MLA?
    Christopher Taylor, PhD
    English Professor
    Christopher Taylor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Austin Community College in Texas. He received his PhD in English Literature and Medieval Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.
    English Professor
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    To cite a television show, include the following information (in order): name of episode (in quotation marks), name of show (in italics), name of network, call letters of the television station and city (with a comma in between), date of broadcast (day, abbreviated month, year), and publication medium (i.e. television, radio, etc.). Punctuate your citation with periods after the name of the episode, the name of the network, the city, the date of broadcast, and the medium.
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    How do I do a scene review? I have to analyze the plot, acting,shots, angle camera movements, and soundtrack composition, and I must do it in approximately 100 words.
    Tom De Backer
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    There is no way you can do all of this in but a hundred words. But if you are allowed to expand that constraint, then you already have all the things you need right there in your question. Look at the scene you are reviewing, and look specifically at how the camera moves. Then discuss why you think the director chose to show this scene from that angle and with those movements. What emotion does that strike up, what is meant to be conveyed through this motion? Do this for every point you mentioned, and there's your scene review.
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