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Article: Modern Language Association of America. 2008. The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association. $32.50 hc. xxiv + 336 pp.(Book review)
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There are a few possible ways to evaluate a resource like the new edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. To begin with, one might compare it to other manuals like the Chicago Manual of Style, now in its fifteenth edition, or to the MLA's own Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, now in its sixth (soon seventh). Compared to the former--three times the size and five times the edition--the MLA Manual is a mere brochure, missing out on the opportunity to school its readers in the finer points of word usage, the presentation of mathematical expressions, and the differences between perfect, notch, and burst binding. Compared to the latter, which ...