Synonyms for defend. verb protect. 1  preserve star. 2  contend star. 3  hold star. 4  secure star. 5  uphold star. 6  prevent star. 7  fight star.
MLA. The Modern Language Association (MLA) style is the leading style of documentation for literary research, as well as academic papers in the humanities field. It follows a specific set of rules for formatting manuscripts, and is considered, along with the APA style, a standardized reference format in college.
In MLA, you only needed to include the author's last name and the page number in-text. In APA, though, you must add a third element: the year in which the essay was published. A further difference from MLA is that you include the in-text citation wherever the cited information is.