HDTutorial
EN
MLA Block Quote Tutorial

Playback starts YouTube’s embedded player (privacy-enhanced mode).

MLA Block Quote Tutorial

50,883 views October 25, 2014 18:58

Watch on YouTube
ChannelBethany Gabbert

Description from the creator

MLA quotation tutorial. How to handle short and long quotations, shorten quotations, and when to paraphrase instead of quoting. This video is produced for the Chemeketa Writing Center. Your particular professor or class may request slightly different formatting--always double check with your instructor if you have doubts!

About this tutorial

Bethany Gabbert published this 18:58 video tutorial on October 25, 2014. It has been watched 50,883 times on YouTube.

Duration
18:58
Published
October 25, 2014
Views
50,883
Likes
144

Tags

Share

Further reading

  • MLA Block Quotations | Guide to Writing courses.lumenlearning.com

    The entire block quotation should be indented one inch from the left margin. The first line of the excerpt should not be further indented, unless you are quoting multiple paragraphs—in which case the first line of each…

  • MLA Formatting Quotations // Purdue Writing Lab owl.purdue.edu

    For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indente…

  • Block Quote - MLA Style Guide: 8th Edition - LibGuides at ... research.wou.edu

    The block format is a freestanding quote that does not include quotation marks. Introduce the block quote with a colon (unless the context of your quote requires different punctuation) and start it on a new line. Indent…

This tutorial in other languages