MLA formatting quick help

[MillerTime GFG]

I have a report, well...film review for one of my electives due in t minus 12 hours here and am struggling with MLA () formatting. I'm so used to APA. Can someone please help me here, I can't seem to properly decipher through all the citing methods.

I need to quote a guy named Peter Travers from rolling stone magazine (rollingstone.com) about a review he did on the film True Grit. (http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/r...-grit-20101221). How would I paraphrase something of his, and how would I do a quote of his within my paper?
This is how I did the paraphrase:

I don't know where the Coens found Steinfeld, 13, but her star-is-born performance is worth shouting about. Steinfeld excels at Mattie's Southern idioms, backed with Presbyterian steel. She's Huck Finn as a teen diva. Just watch her outmaneuver a horse trader or slap around Matt Damon's La Boeuf (pronounced "la beef"), the vain Texas ranger who deems her too unattractive and too young to rouse his interest. (Travers par.3)

This is how I quoted:

“By staying true to Portis — the richness of his language runs through the film like a vein of comic gold — the Coens have crafted a vastly entertaining Wild West show that is memorable in every particular.” (Travers par.1)

Pretty sure they're both incorrect, so come onnnnn CP braintrust, help a brotha out!

[3 Justin 3]

APA and MLA aren't that different. I've never used MLA so I can't help you off the top of my head, but I've been using google for the past 2 years now and it has worked well for me.

By this I mean, search google for "MLA format" and just use any of the school resources that pop up. I use MRU's (as I go there and its a really good one), but I found Toronto's just now and it seems good. Go to page 3 on "Formatting Quotations".

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

It's been a while since I used MLA, but first I would say don't pinpoint to paragraphs. Normally page numbers are used, and it at least used to be the case that pinpoints were omitted for unpaginated sources like websites.

My second comment is that the first one doesn't look like a paraphrase to me--that looks like it turns into a direct quote. I would try constructing a sentence which builds in a reference to the author--like "according to Travers," or some such thing. That might help you to get closer to paraphrasing the "idea" you want rather than just using his words.

[Yamer]

The only thing that I can see is that you need to move the in-text citation itself to before the period of each example. A general rule for paragraph numbers for sources with no page numbers is that they can excluded (replaced with n.p. [no page] if there are no page numbers) unless your instructor specifically requires it. I did a lot of paragraph counting in vain for a paper last year. My instructor applauded my effort but informed me it wasn't necessary. I now always check with the instructor before proceeding.

And, as Iowa_Flames_Fan suggested, work that direct quote into a fluid statement within your paper.

Here are a few sources I use to get citations just right (apart from consulting my college library):

MLA Citation guide: http://rdc.libguides.com/mla
APA Citation guide: http://rdc.libguides.com/apa
Chicago Style guide: http://rdc.libguides.com/chicago16

And the Owl at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/) is always a good source of information on writing.