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WEDNESDAY WEB WRAP-UP for September 30, 2009

Next Tuesday evening, Lavonne Mueller, an award winning playwright and poet will begin her five-day visit to our campus.  During her time here, she will discuss her work, present workshops on creativity in the classroom and play-writing and stage a reading of her work, Voice 9/11.

This week’s Wrap-up promotes her Morningside visit.  To learn more about Ms. Mueller, click >>> http://lavonnemueller.net/index.htm. Here, you can read a brief biography, view her complete vitae and download a number of her plays. For a schedule of her campus activities, click here >>> http://webs.morningside.edu/womensstudies/events.htm.

Jim Fisk

Student Academic Services Coordinator and Librarian

WEDNESDAY WEB WRAP-UP for September 23, 2009

MLA is an acronym for the Modern Language Association. In addition to being a scholarly group whose interest is literature, the MLA establishes the publication ‘rules’ for writers in the humanities.  Several copies of the recently released seventh edition of the MLA Handbook, which documents the standards, are now in the library.  There are a number of changes relative to the documentation of sources at the end of a research paper that should be noted.

Today’s Wrap-up comes from OWL, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University; it identifies those changes. Actually two links may be found here.  An MLA update page with sample citations may viewed by clicking here >>> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/.  A full set of MLA resources may be found here >>> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/.

Jim Fisk

Student Academic Services Coordinator and Librarian