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Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page. Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Michelle Campbell, Rodrigo Rodríguez-Fuentes, Purdue OWL StaffLast Edited: 2014-02-17 04:26:06 The purpose of visual materials or other illustrations is to enhance the audience's understanding of information in the document and/or awareness of a topic. Writers can embed several types of visuals using most basic word processing software: diagrams, musical scores, photographs, or, for documents that will be read electronically, audio/video applications. General guidelines Collect sources. Gather the source information required for MLA documentation for the source medium of the illustration (e.g. print, Web, podcast). Determine what types of illustrations best suit your purpose. Consider the purpose of each illustration, how it contributes to the purpose of the document and the reader's understanding, and whether or not the audience will be able to view and/or understand the illustration easily. Use illustrations of the best quality. Avoid blurry, pixilated, or distorted images for both print and electronic documents. Often pixilation and distortion occurs when writers manipulate image sizes. Keep images in their original sizes or use photo editing software to modify them. Reproduce distorted graphs, tables, or diagrams with spreadsheet or publishing software, but be sure to include all source information. Always represent the original source information.
I have to do a data portion in my APA 8 page paper for my Social Problems class. I have found one line graph that I would love to add to my paper. is that at all possible with APA?Yes, you can add a chart/table/graph to an APA paper.   The University of Maryland has an excellent chart that shows you visually what the citation should look like. Basically you need to supply the information the same as you would for any other resource, to the best of your ability. This includes: the creator of the image (aka author), the date it was created, the title of the image, what type of image, and where you got it from. Example: Rousseau, H. (1896). The ship in the storm [Painting]. Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris. Retrieved from Sometimes you won't be able to find all the pieces of information, in which case you will only be able to include what you know about the image. If you are using an image from the internet, you want to make sure that you have permissions to use the image. It is still a copyright violation to use someone's creative work without their permission. If you are concerned you may be doing this, you can search for images that are considered to have Creative Commons licenses, which are intended for people to use in their own works. You can run a google search for creative commons photos to get images you can legally use without having to obtain the permission of the creator. Noodle Tools also offers a great explanation on how to cite an image. Also you can check out our APA Help page for more help. Thank you for using ASK US.  Contact your campus librarian if you have additional.
Floating blocks is just a technical name for your graphs and figures, specifically describing the way that they relate to the surrounding text. When you create a chart, graph or table, you want it to remain next to a specific piece of text.Otherwise, as you add and remove text, it will appear on a different and completely unrelated page, making it very confusing for the reader. They may well become bored with flicking backwards and forwards through the paper, and will look for their information elsewhere.If you insert a table or chart, then it automatically moves with the text, and you can decide how large it should be, and whether it interrupts the text or drifts to the side of the page.However, inserting a figure with Microsoft Word has one big weakness, and that is that the caption does not move with the table. The only way to do this is with a workaround, where you create a text-box inside a drawing canvas. Creating Floating Blocks in a Drawing Canvas This method avoids most of the problems associated with creating floating blocks, although it can be a little tortuous. If you have any difficulties, the help guide incorporated into the Word program is very useful. Click on ‘Insert’ to bring up the drop down menu. Scroll down to ‘Text Box.’ When you click on this, a large box will appear in the body of the paper, marked with ‘Create Your Drawing Here” Diagonally drag the mouse cursor, within this canvas, and create a text box. Try to avoid taking it completely to the edges, because you need to leave a little room to work. Within this text box, you can do anything that is possible in a normal Word document. In fact, you can regard it as a mini-Word document, so you can insert graphs and tables, or even copy and paste from a spreadsheet, if you wish. To format the text box, right click on the border and select ‘Format Text Box.’ This will allow you to make any.