Plagiarism and Using MLA Citation Style

This section provides a lot of resources that are meant to enable you to complete the Rhetorical Analysis Essay (and all of the essays in the course) successfully.

This section will teach you what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, and how to use MLA citation style to document your sources properly.  It will give you some tips on writing summaries, which will be helpful for the Rhetorical Analysis Essay.

Work through these resources, and then put your new knowledge to work as you format the Rhetorical Analysis Essay and begin research for the Community Problem Project.   Post any questions that come up to the Questions and Answers discussion in week 0.