[xl0lxl0lx]

for english class, our text book is a book that is a collection of articles or extracts by different writers.
for my paper that is due tomorrow, a requirement is to reference one of the articles in the book.
so how do i cite that? do i cite the actual text book or just the article? because the writer of the textbook and the writer of the article that i'm citing are different. or is there a special citation for a work inside a work?
does that make sense? sorry, it's late and i'm tired. i can't find the answer.

[baoi]

GOOGLE it.

Diane Hacker has a very gooood book about this stuff
maybe you can buy it.. it's called the POCKET STYLE MANUAL
by Diane Hacker.. i'm in college, and many of the professors
recommend it.

[mickey012]

you would cite both the book & the articles. inside your paper, you would indicate which reference you're using. as for the exactly MLA format for citing books/articles/etc., you can find it on google.

[novemberbaby]

GOOGLE it.

Diane Hacker has a very gooood book about this stuff
maybe you can buy it.. it's called the POCKET STYLE MANUAL
by Diane Hacker.. i'm in college, and many of the professors
recommend it.

Agreed. The book is so easy to follow!

Here's a website that I often use when I'm too lazy to search in books: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html

[Nagare]

In case anybody needs this, this is a site featuring a MLA bibliography generator: http://citationmachine.net/index.php?new_s...mp;reset=1#here
Just input what you need and it churns out your citation in MLA format. I use this all the time.

[xl0lxl0lx]

thanks for ur help, but i already turned the paper in.

@mickey012: no, it's not supposed to be cited both separately.