Explore these online resources from The MLA Style Center.
Get Tips for Teaching Writing with Social Media and Online Tools
- How to Use Social Media in the Writing Classroom
- Student Accountability, Google Docs, and Digital Peer Review
Take Quizzes
Read Tips on MLA Style
- Citing Artifacts in a Digital Archive
- Digital Citation Tool
- Documenting Legal Works in MLA Style
- A Guide to Citing Materials from Physical Archives and Collections
- MLA Paper-Formatting Guidelines
- Optional Elements: A Primer
- Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty
- Sample Papers
- Styling Titles of Online Works
- URLs: Some Practical Advice
- Using MLA Format: Everything You Need to Know
- Using Notes in MLA Style
- What You Can Omit When Quoting Sources
- When Is a Web Site a Container?
- Works Cited: A Quick Guide
Read Grammar Tips
- Adverbs to Avoid
- Clearing Up the Confusion between You and I
- Do Like I Say, Not Like I Do
- How to Get out of a Tangle When Your Modifiers Dangle
- However: Where to Place It
- Inanimate Nouns and Possession
- A Parallel Universe: Writing with Parallel Structure
- Singular or Plural? Sometimes, It Depends
- To Dangle or Not to Dangle: On Ending a Sentence with a Preposition
- Using Singular They
- Verbs with Alternative Subjects
Read Punctuation Tips
- Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways
- Colons: How to Use Them
- Commas, Conjunctions, and Modifiers
- Comma Sense
- Commas: Essential and Nonessential Elements
- From the Vault: Hyphens and Dashes the MLA Way
- Punctuation with Titles
- Serial Commas and Serial Semicolons
- There’s Nothing Wrong with a Full Stop
- To Splice or Not to Splice?