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47-0007 LB2369 2008-47484 CIP MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 7th ed. Modern Language Association of America, 2009. 292p index afp ISBN 9781603290241 pbk, $22.00
Pity the knight-errant editot of a style manual: each time a new publication type is slain (the blog, the vlog, Twitter), a new format raises its hydra-like head. Six years in the making, this new edition of the MLA Handbook (4th ed., CH, Oct'95, 33-0646) dispatches several newfangled dragons successfully, in the clear and highly readable prose that has graced editions since the release of a simple style sheet in 1951. Several significant changes in documentation style were originally announced in last...