When you use another person's
idea, opinion or theory
When you use any facts, graphs, statistics,
drawings, pictures, images, sounds, etc. or any other piece
of information which you found from any source, including the
Internet
When you use quotations or another person's
actual spoken or written words
When you paraphrase (put into your own words)
another person's spoken or written words
Your instructor will also indicate
when he or she wants you to use the MLA format for your research
paper. It is your responsibility to determine which citation
format to use for a particular assignment.
