Download English Composition and Rhetoric - How to Use MLA Format | ENGL 102 and more Study notes English Language in PDF only on Docsity! How to use MLA Format for In-text Citations Citations 1-3: Newspaper or Magazine Article The source is "The History of Ash Heaps," an article by Kevin Baker on page 12 of section 4 of the New York Times, January 5, 2003. First Citation: Writing in the New York Times, columnist and historian Kevin Baker points out that "[b]y the 1800s, the muck in lower Manhattan was reportedly as much as two to three feet deep in the wintertime" (12). Second: "Right from the beginning, the burghers of Old New Amsterdam were embroiled in battles to keep residents from simply throwing their garbage and the contents of their chamber pots into the streets," (Baker 12). Third: After New York City had cleaned the streets for the first time, an old woman is supposed to have said, "I never knew that the streets were covered with stones before" (qtd. in Baker 12). Citation 4: Unsigned Editorial The source is the New York Times editorial "Back to the United Nations" on page A40 on February 13, 2003. There is no author listed. According to an unsigned editorial in the New York Times, the option given Saddam Hussein by the United Nations and the United States today "leaves Iraq with little incentive to do anything but stall" (“Back to the United Nations” A40). Citation 5: Signed Editorial The source is Thomas Friedman's editorial "Present at . . . What?" on page A20 of the New York Times from February 12, 2003. This is the second Friedman source in this paper. Friedman opines that for a successful rebuilding of Iraq, military intervention must be "the product of an international decision, not an American whim" ("Present" A22). Citation 6: Online Article The source is the online article "Buddhist Retreat: Why I Gave Up on Finding My Religion" by John Horgan from Slate.com, paragraph 4, posted February 12, 2003. Buddhists in America often distance themselves from defining Buddhism as a religion and emphasize that it is more a way of finding spiritual balance (Hogan, par. 4). Citation 7: An Essay in a Collection The source is Bell Hooks's essay "Talking Back" on page 207 of Gloria Anzaldúa's Making Face, Making Soul. For many women, domination is exemplified in submission to silence, or "the right speech of womanhood" (Hooks 207).
