Consult the official MLA Handbook, available without login using school WIFI.
You are required to use NoodleTools to create your in-text citations and Work Cited.
Recommended tutorials:
Watch the video to learn how to set up the required Project Folder settings in NoodleTools.
Your teacher may ask you to label your project folder Last name, First name or First name, Last name. Please follow your teachers isntructions on how the NoodleTools Project Folders should be titled.
Below are the settings discussed in the video that are required for Y9 NoodleTool Project Folders.
Understand "What are Figures and Tables?"
Understand how to cite sources in world languages
Any type of illustrative visual material—for example, a photograph, map, line drawing, graph, or chart—should be:
1. Labeled Figure (usually abbreviated Fig.), assigned a number, and given a caption with in-text citation.
Tables are separate from Figures and have their own formatting requirements.
Full citation in the Work Cited:
Full citation in the Work Cited:
Full citation in the Work Cited:
Take a look at this sample paper to see how Figures are properly formatted and cited within a piece of writing.
How do you cite a Figure (photograph, chart, graph, illustration) that you have made yourself?
"...authors should cite their own work the same way they would cite any other source." Link
Example:
Ardea Smith made this chart for a project on August 20, 2024 using Google Sheets.
Figure 1. Smith, Ardea. Chart of Books that make me laugh. Google Sheets. August 20, 2024.
No full citation needed.
"If the photograph is not publicly accessible, you might choose to reproduce it in your paper. In this instance there is no need to credit yourself as the author of the [figure]. Unless otherwise indicated, the reader should assume that you are the author of the images included in your paper. Since the caption provides sufficient information, no works-cited-list entry is needed."
Email Ms Smith for the answer sheet!
A table is a visual representation of data with columns and rows.
Example:
To properly format a Table in MLA style:
At the top of the table, write Table, give an arabic numeral, and a title. Under the table write "Source:" copy/paste the in-text citation from NoodleTools or MyBib. Place the full citation in the Work Cited.
Example:
If you adapt the table to fit the needs of your work (changing the formatting of the columns/rows/labels - NOT THE DATA ITSELF), acknowledge that you adapted the original table format with the following below the Table:
Source: Adapted from (in-text citation)
Example
Source: Adapted from (Keeman).
The full citation will be in your Works Cited.
If you combined multiple sources of data in a custom table, acknowledge this with the following below the Table:
Source: Adapted from (in-text citation); (in-text citation); (in-text citation).
Example
Source: Adapted from (Smith) (Halliday) (Clouting)
The full citations will be in your Works Cited.
When you analyze the data presented in a Table or some element present in a Figure (maybe the Figures color use or composition or the characters in a screenshot from a film), you need to let the reader know which Figure or Table you are referring to.
There are 2 ways to do this.
1.
The rich bold strokes of Vincent Van Gogh in his work Grass and Butterflies (see Fig 1) highlights the texture of the paint and represents his signature style of painting.
Fig. 1. Grass and butterflies (Gogh).
2.
As seen in Figure 1 the rich bold strokes of Vincent Van Gogh in his work Grass and Butterflies highlights the texture of the paint and represents his signature style of painting.
Fig. 1. Grass and butterflies (Gogh).
Another example:
If you are properly formatting and labeling your Figures and Tables + referencing the Figure # / Table # in your writing, you are doing everything correctly!
How to create full citations for sources in non-Roman scripts, MLA recommends:
The title should be written in the original script
An English translation of the title in brackets and
A transliteration of the Chinese characters in works geared to non-specialists (optional)
These three elements should be included in this order: original characters, then transliteration (if included), then translation.
Examples:
Johnson, Maxime. La réalité virtuelle pour transformer le télétravail [Virtual reality to transform telelwork]. L'Actualité, 1 June 2020, lactualite.com/techno/la-realite-virtuelle-pour-transformer-le-teletravail/.
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Author: 學愚
Title: 中國佛教的社會主義改造
Citation: Xue, Yu. 中國佛教的社會主義改造 Zhongguo fojiao de shehuizhuyi gaizao [The socialist transformation of Chinese Buddhism]. Hong Kong: Xianggang Zhongwen daxue chubanshe, 2015.
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Website:
“Quanmian zhengque lijie shehuizhuyi xinnongcun jianshe 全面正确理解社会主义新农村建设” [Fully and correctly understand the building of a new socialist countryside]. State Council 国务院. Web. 15 March, 2006.
Journal article:
Hua, Linfu 华林甫. “Qingdai yilai Sanxia diqu shuihan zaihai de chubu yanjiu” 清代以来三峡地区水旱灾害的初步研究 [A preliminary study of floods and droughts in the Three Gorges region since the Qing dynasty]. Zhongguo shehui kexue 中国社会科学 1 (1999): 168–79. Print.
See more examples for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese language.
How to format quotes in world languages and in-text citations for sources in non-Roman scripts, MLA recommends:
Include a quotation in the original language followed immediately by your translation in parentheses and quotation marks.
In place of the citation at the end of the quotation, include the words “my trans.” with the page number.
Need more examples? See this handy PDF created by the Emily Carr Writing Center.
Y9
The student can format and cite Figures and Tables using MLA style
The student can cite sources in world languages.
Student should continue to demonstrate the skills expected by end of Year 7 & 8
Y7
The student can create a full citation and in-text citation in NoodleTools.
The student can create a Works Cited in NoodleTools.
The student can create a full citation and in-text citation for an AI tool they may have used.
The student can use in-text citations within their writing or presentation and have provided a Work Cited for relevant assessments.
The student can effectively use signal phrases to introduce sources they are using within a piece of work.
Y8
The student can format a piece of writing in MLA style.
The student can create in-text citations with page numbers and timestamps/time ranges in NoodleTools.
The student can use Turnitin to receive feedback on citations
The student can use the Pineapple Bun Structure for a paragraph with evidence (quote or paraphrase).