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Series: Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America; 8 edition (April 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603292632
ISBN-13: 978-1603292634
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I don’t know how to begin to convey my exasperation, my anger, my sense of betrayal in reading the new MLA Handbook 8th edition.Let’s start with the good news.1. MLA hasn’t touched in-text citation. Thank God for small favors. In parentheses Author-page number, no comma in between.2. The odious, tack-on descriptors from 7th edition, Print-Film-Web, have vanished. Good riddance!Now, for the bad news. It’s all about the Works Cited.Journal citation:1. There is a proliferation of commas that have to be seen to be believed. Commas are appearing in places whence they were banished 25 years ago or more! A comma now must appear after a journal, for example. Why do this?2. Out of the blue, “vol.†and “no.†and “pp.†are baa-aa-ck in 8th edition. WHY? I fought the changeover when they were erased in 3rd edition (?) years ago. Then, I came to love the efficiency of using 3.2 instead of vol. 3 no. 2. Why are we going backwards?3. Why use commas to set off the date? What was wrong with parentheses?4. While we’re on the subject, did I somehow miss expressing the date day-month-year in an earlier edition? It looks cool; I just didn’t know it was required.Book citation:1. MLA has declared the place of publication irrelevant. The logic of this decision escapes me. I want to know where a source is published. There’s a note to say if you absolutely must, you can include it. Somehow it feels condescending.2. Previously understood abbreviations such as “Ed.â€, “Trans.â€, “Dir.†etc. now have to be spelled out!! “Edited byâ€, “Translated byâ€, “Directed byâ€. WHY?3. Ah, BUT university presses still have to be expressed: U of California P, Cambridge UP. This was one of MLA’s dumbest moves in an earlier edition because some presses, like Indiana University Press, won’t accept a manuscript that uses these abbreviations. But this rule MLA decided to keep in the 8th edition!When the MLA revolutionized citation by eliminating “Op.cit†and “Ibid.†and virtually banished footnotes in favoring the creation of a list of “Works Cited†at the end, I thought it was a stroke of genius. Those bloated “Bibliographies†and vague “References†were shown to be what they were: padding and/or slipshod scholarship. “Works Cited†meant you had to account for every single work on the list.In teaching graduate students about the importance of correct citation, I felt confident in teaching from the MLA Handbook. How can I teach from the 8th edition with a straight face?MLA Executive Director Rosemary Feal even ends her introduction by saying there will be “future iterations.†God help us all.I’m ready to bail for Turabian, Chicago, or the EPA.
I understand an earlier reviewer who said not to buy this book, but to buy the easier , more easy-to-understand version. I understand the sentiment, but it is not a viable option. Using the previous version will result in formatting works cited entries incorrectly according to current standards.While the entries in the new edition are simplified for the most part, the book itself is terrible. The approach for the container system of nine "core elements" is ridiculous. The core elements as presented follow: Author, Title of source, Title of container, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location. Title and author are clear, but the other elements? "Container"? "Location"? What these actually mean varies widely. "Publisher," by the way, does not always mean what we think of as a publisher, nor do the other terms always make sense as applied. The writers just wanted nine elements for everything, darn it, and didn't picture anything as basic as making sense to actual college students.I've taught for over twenty years, and grasping the basic concepts of MLA format is very difficult for some students. I have students who can't seem to understand the difference between italics and quotation marks at the end of a semester. Now I am supposed to try to get them to understand these nine badly-named "core elements" and how they apply? This book is just insane. "Location" can be any number of things, including page numbers. (Not exactly intuitively-named.) And some changes are just plain arbitrary, such as deciding to require "vol." and "no." for volumes and numbers, instead of the simpler approach used for years: we used to put 62.3, for example, instead of vol. 63, no. 3.This book does not list an author. It is a committee-generated work by people who obviously did not work well together. And the index is the least helpful index I've ever struggled through. Buy it, figure it out for yourself, but DO NOT ask your students to buy it. They'll drop out of college.
The new MLA Handbook tries to keep up with the ever-changing world of documenting sources from a widening variety of ways and places where sources can now be found or accessed. However, in trying to be as broad as possible to account for as many possibilities as it can, it unfortunately is inadequate in that it is too vague and does not account for the great variety of sources that now exist. The idea of citing sources as containers in containers (boxes in boxes would have been clearer) is not a bad approach, but it's execution leaves much to be desired as the text has too few examples and it brings back using URLs, for example, while admitting that often they are not useful as some change or disappear over time. It also has little in the way of how to document things like charts, maps, and other visuals. (It does have "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; yes, really.) It probably would have been useful to have a professional tech writer do the handbook instead of an academic. I foresee another edition having to be done in a few years, unfortunately, that will be a more useful revision that will combine the former documentation style with this one. Hopefully, the next one will get it right.
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