To quote Shakespeare in MLA, cite by act, scene, and line numbers instead of page numbers, and preserve the verse line breaks. A citation looks like (Hamlet 3.1.56-58): act 3, scene 1, lines 56 to 58, separated by periods. Short quotations of up to three lines run into your sentence with forward slashes between lines;…
To quote lines from a poem, keep the poet’s line breaks and cite by line number rather than page. For up to three lines run into your sentence, mark each break with a forward slash. For four or more, set the lines off as a block quote with the original formatting. In MLA, the in-text…
To quote a song, put the borrowed lyrics in quotation marks, separate lines with a forward slash, and cite the songwriter or performer. In MLA, that means an in-text citation with the artist’s name and a Works Cited entry for the recording; in APA, an in-text citation with the songwriter and year plus a reference…
A minimal pair is two words that differ by only one sound and have different meanings, like “ship” and “sheep” or “bat” and “pat.” Because only a single sound changes, minimal pairs isolate that sound, which makes them a standard tool in phonics, pronunciation teaching, and linguistics for showing that two sounds are genuinely distinct…
To cite a quote, put the borrowed words in quotation marks and add a citation that names the author and points to where the words appear. In MLA that is the author’s last name and the page number, like (Lee 24). In APA it is the author, year, and page number, like (Lee, 1960, p….
An MLA quote citation has two parts: an in-text citation right after the quote, giving the author’s last name and page number like (Morrison 58), and a matching full entry on the Works Cited page. The in-text citation points to the Works Cited entry through the author’s name. This is MLA 9th edition. Here is…
To paraphrase a quote, restate its idea in your own words and sentence structure, then cite the source. You drop the quotation marks, because the words are now yours, but you keep the citation, because the idea is not. A paraphrase is not a few swapped synonyms; it is a genuine rewrite that keeps the…
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make when setting goals is to confuse emotions with goals. They make lofty aims like, ‘I want to be happy,’ or ‘I want to be successful,’ without knowing that these aren’t really goals at all. What we’re talking about here are emotions, or states. These can change…
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy” – Proverb The first thing many people associate minimalism with is saving money. They think that people become minimalists so that they can hoard money instead of things. They think minimalists live tight, boring lives of just working hard,…
Many of you have probably heard about the earthquake that hit northern Japan last Friday March 11th, and the tsunami it caused and the current nuclear ‘situation’. Fortunately, the region of Kansai where I live is mostly unaffected, but much of the damage and devastation it caused is still ongoing. A random accumulation of circumstances has lead…