{"id":2597,"date":"2012-03-07T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:54","slug":"how-do-you-cite-a-tweet-in-an-academic-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/07\/how-do-you-cite-a-tweet-in-an-academic-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Cite a Tweet (MLA Style) in an Academic Paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Modern Language Association likes to keep up with the times. As we all know, some information breaks first or only on Twitter and a good academic needs to be able to cite those sources.<\/p>\n<p>So, the MLA has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/style\/handbook_faq\/cite_a_tweet\">devised a standard format<\/a> that you should keep in mind when citing a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/12\/03\/how-do-you-cite-a-tweet-in-an-academic-paper\/253932\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/citation-style2_615.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/12\/03\/how-do-you-cite-a-tweet-in-an-academic-paper\/253932\/\">How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? &#8211; Alexis Madrigal &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modern Language Association likes to keep up with the times. As we all know, some information breaks first or only on Twitter and a good academic needs to be able to cite those sources.<\/p>\n<p>So, the MLA has devised a standard format that you should keep in mind when citing a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[598,596,513,597,286],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-academicpapers","tag-citations","tag-mla","tag-tweet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}