Media specialist and educator Heath abstracts the Modern Language Association's (MLA) widely used Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, which sets out standards for referencing citations, quotations, and formatting papers in academic contexts. Among her topics are understanding MLA citation, citing a book with an author and an editor, newspaper articles, online sources, and other sources. Under parenthetical documents she explains how to indicate summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting, and emphasizes accuracy and readability. The final section describes how to format the Works Cited page, and formatting a whole paper using Microsoftwear. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)