… English department front desk @ Building E3-360 Tel: 323-265-8632 Q: My instructor keeps talking about MLA format. What's that? A: The Modern Language Association (MLA) answers this question with the following statement: All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation … other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work. MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for …