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MLA Rules for Format & Documentation: A Pocket Guide [Conforms to 7th Edition MLA]

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Quick and concise for a paper due tomorrow or just for a quick review of the basics. Its much easier to get a hold of the MLA thing with this book and then move on to the bigger more explanatory ones later. It will fit into your back pocket or even your top shirt pocket. Its that small.

if you are doing any college work that requires mla type of documentation, this little handbook is very helpful. it is not too much information and it gives important updated info for internet based works cited.

This MLA Handbook is a great resource to have in hand while writing a bibliography. I referred to it quite often to make sure I was correctly documenting my sources.

THIS IS A GREAT TIME SAVER. THIS SMALL POCKET GUIDE IS CONCISE AND COVERS ONLY WHAT YOU NEED TO PORPERLY FORMAT AND DOCUMENT MY PAPER. NO LONGER BORING STORY ABOUT HOW TO WRITE. IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY IT HITS THE SPOT.

This very small book is certainly a help in interpreting the new 7th edition of the MLA guide, but the reader has to thumb through the book to find each entry type. It needs a table of contents that indicates what page the database entry or book entry is on. This pocket guide is good in a pinch but not as thorough as Diana Hacker's pocket handbooks. Unfortunately, Hacker revised her book just before the 7th edition came out.

This is a great little book. It is a good time saver with very few wasted words. Tells you just what you need to know and then gives multiple examples. Good value. Liz

This handbook is great. Last month I needed help with accurately citing and formatting a research paper but I didn't have the time to read an entire 361 page MLA style book. I needed something concise and reasonable. When I received the handbook, I was very impressed. The author packed a prodigious amount of information and examples into such an easy to carry around booklet. It has clear, concise instructions as well as many illustrations. The book is easy to understand and navigable. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants or needs to learn how to properly reference and write an MLA style paper.

Unfortunately, it was overpriced and just a sketch of what the MLA actually contains, rather than explanations, etc. If the price had been much lower, I would have understood it was just a brief sketch of the overall format. Unfortunately, it is of little use to me as is.

I just received this book and it is no where near worth the money spent. It seems like a good deal and then you get it only to realize it sucks. It is very cheap and poorly made, looks like it wouldn't last very long at all. The text in it is faded and slanted on almost every page. I don't know why anyone would think the content of it is helpful either. It gives barely any information compared to the real MLA Handbook. I knew when I bought it I wasn't going to get all the information as the real handbook but I never expected it to be only like 5% of the information, maybe not even that. The description says it was "organized for speed and brevity" but I found the organization extremely annoying and hard to find what I was looking for quickly. Overall, it was just a horrible disappointment! I will be returning it!

I've spent the semester referring to this handbook and it has failed to impress. The brevity of the material and its poor organization make it hard to follow, especially when you're in the heat of paper writing. Multiple, sometimes unrelated formats are squeezed together on the same page and the "Potential Problems" sections--footnotes that address special case citations--show up too rarely to be useful. The instructions for the citations and the templates/examples provided rarely match up (especially in the "Electronic Sources" section--a shame, considering how important the internet is to modern research). The instructions will ask for a periodical's volume number, for example, but none of the examples will include volume numbers. Furthermore, the "compact" format is useless--the booklet doesn't stay open without being strong-armed, which makes it difficult to refer to while typing. What's the point?

I ultimately resorted to emailing professors and using online citation resources. This is a waste of money.