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How do I cite an email in MLA?

Marissa Levis
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Marissa Levis is an English Teacher in the Morris County Vocational School District. She previously worked as an English director at a tutoring center that caters to students in elementary and middle school. She is an expert in creating a curriculum that helps students advance their skills in secondary-level English, focusing on MLA formatting, reading comprehension, writing skills, editing and proofreading, literary analysis, standardized test preparation, and journalism topics. Marissa received her Master of Arts in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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To cite an email in MLA style, start with the sender's name, followed by the subject line in quotation marks, then the recipient's name and the date of the email.

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How can I cite a Shakespeare quote in MLA?

Marissa Levis
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Marissa Levis is an English Teacher in the Morris County Vocational School District. She previously worked as an English director at a tutoring center that caters to students in elementary and middle school. She is an expert in creating a curriculum that helps students advance their skills in secondary-level English, focusing on MLA formatting, reading comprehension, writing skills, editing and proofreading, literary analysis, standardized test preparation, and journalism topics. Marissa received her Master of Arts in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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When citing Shakespeare in MLA, remember to include the title of the play, followed by the act, scene, and line numbers in your parenthetical citation. If you're using multiple plays by Shakespeare, specify the title to avoid confusion.

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How do I do quotes and punctuation marks?

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For quotes, use single quotes. Put the punctuation marks inside the quotes.

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Where does the question mark go in an intext citation - at the end of the sentence, or outside the parenthesis?

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I've always been told it goes at the end outside of the parenthesis, as if the parentheses were part of the sentence itself.

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How do I do an in-text citation when there are two articles from the same website, there is no author, and the two articles have the same title except for the last word?

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Depending on your teacher's preferences, there are two main ways to do this. One way would be to add a number after the titles of both works. Another way would be to just write out the complete title.

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How do I cite in-text citations with two authors and no page number?

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This is like circumstance #3 above, showing how to cite a source with two authors. You cite the two last names joined by "and." Since you have no page numbers, then the citation only requires the names.

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How do I cite a movie with in-text citations when I use scenes in an essay?

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This will depend on the focus of your paper. When using MLA formatting, your in-text citations for movies will depend on the Works Cited format you use for the movie. When creating your Works Cited entry for your film, you would start with the information that is most relevant to your paper. For example, if you were writing a paper about Ron Howard, then you would start your entry with "Howard, Ron." Then, for the in-text citation, you can just include the first item of the Works Cited entry in the parentheses (which, in our example, would be "Howard").

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