Knowledge Commons | Jennifer A. Rappaport | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jrappaport/activity/ Activity feed for Jennifer A. Rappaport. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 50f5b88f4d8306b47e95c8a85483364c Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1638013 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:57:52 -0400 See my comment above about attributive nouns. You could write either

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In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 7ddd90228b04c274df41c0c91bd249d8 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1581977/#acomment-1637503 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:31:08 -0400 Great point. We have revised the second example but with a slight variation so that "her" in "instructed her" has a suitable antecedent.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Colons: How to Use Them, on the site The MLA Style Center You have more than one way to indicate that your quotation does not begin at the start of the sentence you are […] ]]> 69bc3665274580fb665ede358cc5aa7d Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1637147 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:01:12 -0400 Yes. See the section on "Presidents" as an attributive noun in this post:

https://style.mla.org/presidents-day/

You could say "the Cubs player" if you mean "the player for the Cubs."

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 0de17bab0534ac26cf3370d73f320ef8 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1637135 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:08:42 -0400 Thanks for your question, David. Pirates is plural, so the possessive is formed by adding an s: the Pirates' owner.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 05bc164e51a40801328f230787d0fa1b Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1637134 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:05:27 -0400 Great question, Carly. You have it exactly right: the commas between the titles are not italicized, so those commas separate one title from another.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 52f4307703f3b8f65f4dc0fa7ec524d1 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1636422 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:39:58 -0400 A question mark is indeed enough punctuation in your example. There should be no period after the closing quotation mark.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 6158058bef1024f8bc28f24846c66ece Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/553571/#acomment-1635506 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:12:23 -0400 Thanks for your question. See our post on citing wall text (https://style.mla.org/citing-wall-text/). As always, you should key your in-text citation to the first element of the works-cited-list entry, so for the examples shown in the post, your parenthetical citation would read "(Wall text)." If you have more than one entry that begins this way,…[Read more]

In reply to - Laura Kiernan wrote a new post, Finding Publication Facts Online: An Unusual Case, on the site The MLA Style Center Lesson Plan Objective: This assignment is intended for use with a class trip to a museum (but […] ]]> d9ce7b9b56e8d547982887aefae6e73b Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592775/#acomment-1635504 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 12:59:22 -0400 Yes. You can find examples on pages 104-05 of the eighth edition of the handbook.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Documenting Legal Works in MLA Style, on the site The MLA Style Center To determine whether to style a work on a Web site in italics or quotation marks, you must consider the work's […] ]]> a3f2d8539ac14f101a713a8e05c152b2 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1635502 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 12:56:19 -0400 Thanks for your comment. I'm saying only one s is pronounced. If you write "Camus' novel," you pronounce the s. If you write "Camus's novel," you pronounce only one s.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 6c4de764de13b8c6ba6ec9fb0a6eca3d Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1633415 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:00:44 -0500 Thanks for your question. In MLA style, the plural of an abbreviation is formed by adding an s: IRAs, KPIs.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> b40429fabc93dbb2e11fa105b54e2864 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1632780 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:51:09 -0500 As noted above, in MLA style, proper nouns ending in s that are singular follow the general rule and add ’s, so we would write

Wayne Thomas’s Family Skate Night

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 5e3464ecdd07fc43a579e7b52775071c Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1630956 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:18:25 -0500 Thanks for your question. We would style the title as follows:

How to Prepare for a Snowstorm

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 40983fe3d678626805bd63d2c02bf36c Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1629984 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:50:57 -0500 Thanks for your question. See our answer here:

https://style.mla.org/punctuation-and-quotation-marks/

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> d171a80c784e23d21a864307a5922922 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1629015 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:58:52 -0500 Thanks for your question. The correct styling in MLA format would be

Anthropomorphization and Animal Representation: A Posthumanistic Analysis of the Harry Potter Books (since Harry Potter is the name of a series of books, not the name of a particular book).

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> a9cccd10311ad4f2286bd140b308527e Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1628305 Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:09:24 -0500 Great question. Technically, it's correct, but it's better to revise to avoid the awkwardness of an apostrophe after a closing quotation mark:

The meter of "Mending Wall" is iambic pentameter.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 7b880ea21a9aa9c8567043c6d87c05d9 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565964/#acomment-1627524 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:31:45 -0500 It would be fine to start the sentence with "fortunately" followed by a comma. Omitting the compound sentence comma before "and" might cause readers to momentarily read the sentence as "she remembered to add the commas and everyone," so it's probably better to include the comma.

In reply to - Angela Gibson wrote a new post, Commas, Conjunctions, and Modifiers, on the site The MLA Style Center Many writers and even editors have trouble deciding where to place the commas in a sentence in which a […] ]]> 182440d1b94451ade116ccbb8a03722c Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1627119 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:29:59 -0500 Thanks for your question.

The rule does not relate to syllables. It is Ross's (singular possessive), Alexis's (singular possessive), and the Thomases' (plural posssessive).

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> bf9c1a9118ce403884bdad17d6f5e7e0 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1553731/#acomment-1625742 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:45:31 -0500 No, we still capitalize Internet and Web site.

In reply to - MLA Commons wrote a new post, The Capitalization of Web, on the site The MLA Style Center “The World Wide Web” is the name of a unique entity and is thus written with initial capital letters. “The Web” is the sho […] ]]> 8d5a43f6d0869b254aa1b85e1feb238e Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1625593 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:57:22 -0500 The colon goes after the title in quotation marks:

“A Rose for Emily”: Northern Progress Meets Southern Tradition

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> ae8f1083f00304e7b2c01d2a7f7d2233 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1625026 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:22:30 -0500 Thanks for your question. In MLA style, quotation marks are not used around professional titles or titles of courses. We also lowercase professional titles: organization lead.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> a1b4c5caeecc52b8412f41cae12ae54a Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1624725 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:14:05 -0500 Thanks for your question. The question mark separates the title from the subtitle.

Competition Law within the European Union Is Functioning Just Fine, but Do Fines Cut It? An Exploration of the Efficacy of Corporate Fines in Achieving the Goals of EU Competition Law, and the Potential Benefits of Reform.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 5a26a4f94adc76f4bc8525c42e9b07ab Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1624609 Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:39:22 -0500 No space. You would write "Mark's."

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> e831384b8267e94cc17f5fa91ffc0fa7 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1623816 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:01:01 -0500 Good question. The apostrophe should go in the word "family": "the Adams family's adventures."

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> c98bf940812b3969253955dbb16c0998 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1619456 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:02:18 -0500 If the last name is Brode, then the plural is Brodes, and the plural possessive is Brodes'.

If the last name is Brodes, then the plural is Brodeses, and the plural possessive is Brodeses'.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 3329e9ac72e9c5b78c1e712c96604e06 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1623358 Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:48:59 -0500 There's no hard-and-fast rule about how to style chapter numbers before titles, but in a table of contents, I would recommend the following in the example you've sent:

Chapter 6. Power Blocker #3: Misplaced Blame

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> f28faf6ea7edfb47ecd198fc2af56aa3 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1623119 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:16:10 -0500 Great question. We would write either "the 1970s" or "the '70s."

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> fd158e23992eba6e187dee29a38f9b9d Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1618174 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:57:49 -0400 Great question! I would follow Bryan Garner (in Garner's Modern American Usage, Oxford UP, 2009, p. 46), who recommends leaving the term as is (Kohl's newest location) or rewording (the newest location of Kohl's).

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 254ef28f5071359c5371a6e46edf3c69 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1617695 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:03:50 -0400 Excellent question. A title is treated as a singular entity, so adding an 's after the title is technically correct, but appending an 's to any title is awkward. It is usually best to rearrange the sentence: The narrative arc of Wuthering Heights. . . .

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> e49a3f3ee362d66dd474a420e8d87f36 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1617393 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:08:32 -0400 Thanks for your question! Yes, the plural possessive of Jones is Joneses'.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 2fa4a591f9c6d47da88539483a02762f Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1617370 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:48:42 -0400 Thanks for your question. In MLA style, "part 1" would be included in the "Number" slot on the MLA template of core elements:

https://style.mla.org/works-cited-a-quick-guide/

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 1b7717c44cafcd38cef9831cb3e92547 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1615914 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:01:51 -0400 Great question. In MLA style, an apostrophe is not used to form the plural of numbers, so it is correct to write "1900s."

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 1604d03f53c38ffc756817f9497a9ff5 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1615566 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:43:02 -0400 Yes, a comma should generally separate a date from a time.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 75bbc018004ee91236543741c245792c Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1614166 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:50:39 -0400 Thanks for your question. Whereas a comma is needed before and after the state in formulations such as "New York, New York," when the city and state are used as the title of a work, no comma is needed following the name of the state, unless the grammar of the rest of the sentence requires it (After watching the movie New York, New York, we went…[Read more]

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 38b7c4c568046dee2dca20d1cf94283c Jennifer A. Rappaport's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1612391/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:48:26 -0400 0 0d209e53fbc7e97f02b783e887dc8822 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1607041 Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:06:46 -0400 Yes, correct. Please see our related post for examples:
style.mla.org/punctuation-and-quotation-marks/

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> ece7e3abf57fdc572ec0a97bffef328a Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1605180 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:39:52 -0400 Thanks for your question. The possessive of "Camus" is formed the same way it is for "Dumas," shown above, so you would write "Albert Camus's novel," even though the second "s" is not pronounced. Note, though, that there is an alternative practice, not followed by the MLA, that simply adds an apostrophe to proper nouns ending in "s," so in that…[Read more]

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 5eaac7c556b2a19692089ff9d55afc2d Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1603685 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:36:03 -0400 Good question. We'll submit it to Ask the MLA.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 9b19e0e366b25c8aff0583d52d98c327 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1603486 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:07:37 -0400 Please see the update to the section on plurals above.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 77042c9de9428c9c67e2153924694acd Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1603414 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:42:41 -0400 Thanks for your question. We'll submit it to Ask the MLA.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> f00992a5d28ae4ccd264f11ff3b438e1 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1601412 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:47:59 -0500 Great question. The period goes inside the single quotation mark.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 0b4023bc2eacc17f134e961f4fc1d68d Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1599185 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:16:18 -0500 Thanks for your question. The answer is on
p. 71 of the handbook (1.2.4 "Titles within Titles").

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> 50f5932fc3f87e810603ed2d06ef7ca9 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592499/#acomment-1599182 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:19:10 -0500 Thanks for your comment. Just to be clear, I was arguing that "between you and me" is the correct form.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Clearing Up the Confusion between You and I, on the site The MLA Style Center Many writers substitute the phrase between you and I for between you and me. Theodore M. Bernstein suggests […] ]]> 58a038fc52ba20d598b52fad83325af6 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1595576 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:25:37 -0500 Perhaps you mean single quotation marks? Single quotation marks, not apostrophes, are used for quotations within quotations.

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 3add568751456cc1ad3da1ab5508e7b9 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593850/#acomment-1595575 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:24:35 -0500 The comma would be placed inside the quotation marks.

In reply to - MLA Style wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center In a previous Ask the MLA post, we explained how to incorporate titles ending in question marks or exclamation points […] ]]> bc6fa957553ebed4096cb7fa346f4a57 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582220/#acomment-1590475 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:05:24 -0500 Glad you find it helpful!

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Apostrophes: One Mark, Three Ways, on the site The MLA Style Center Apostrophes can be used in three ways: to form contractions, to create plurals, and to show possession.* […] ]]> 0bcb7814930f5376028bfb23e283c260 Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586077/#acomment-1588911 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:00:11 -0500 The New York Society Library is a hidden gem. Whereas anyone can visit the New York Public Library, only members can normally go above the Society Library's first floor. Upstairs you'll find a magnificent cell-phone free reading room, a children's library, several floors of books tucked away in the stacks, and a room where writers and…[Read more]

In reply to - Stacey Courtney edited the post Explore NYC! Join a Cultural Excursion in the group 2018 MLA Convention: New York City is home to a wide range of world-renowned libraries, museums, and cultural institutions, […] ]]> 5eb0b78028f20639d9662164a577c0db Jennifer A. Rappaport's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588893/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:35:26 -0500 0 7dd40ff37882f087ae4ae0fb3d709e79 Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, How would I cite a last will?, on the site The MLA Style Center https://style.mla.org/?p=9511 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:00:13 -0400 To cite a last will and testament, which is an unpublished legal document, follow the MLA template of core elements. A basic entry should include a description of the will in the “Title of source” slot and the dat […]

]]> 51bee163fa10d15a901ac30593ba89eb Jennifer A. Rappaport posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1581977/#acomment-1582973 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:15:28 -0400 Great question. Page 81 of the handbook says, "If the fact that you omitted material from a sentence or series of sentences is not obvious, you must mark the omission with ellipsis points, or three spaced periods." The handbook does not, however, provide an example of when you might need to insert an ellipsis at the beginning of a quotation,…[Read more]

In reply to - Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Colons: How to Use Them, on the site The MLA Style Center You have more than one way to indicate that your quotation does not begin at the start of the sentence you are […] ]]> 6e90e45fdb37437822366be96d801ab0 Jennifer A. Rappaport wrote a new post, Connected Academics at MLA 2017, on the site The MLA Style Center https://style.mla.org/?p=9549 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:00:20 -0400 Like a semicolon, a colon can connect two independent clauses, but it has several other uses as well. Colons, like semicolons, should be used sparingly.
Joining Independent Clauses
A semicolon or colon joining […]

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