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Mla Formatting Made Easy - WK9

The document provides instructions for formatting a paper using MLA style. It discusses setting 1 inch margins on all sides and using 12 point Times New Roman font with double spacing. Headings should be double spaced and include the author's name, teacher's name, class number, and date. A header on the top right of each page should include the last name and page number. The title of the paper is centered after the heading with no extra spacing. Paragraphs should be indented 0.5 inches with no extra spacing between them. The Work Cited page should be on its own page at the end, alphabetized, and use a hanging indent. In-text citations should match the first item in the Work Cited entry plus

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Mla Formatting Made Easy - WK9

The document provides instructions for formatting a paper using MLA style. It discusses setting 1 inch margins on all sides and using 12 point Times New Roman font with double spacing. Headings should be double spaced and include the author's name, teacher's name, class number, and date. A header on the top right of each page should include the last name and page number. The title of the paper is centered after the heading with no extra spacing. Paragraphs should be indented 0.5 inches with no extra spacing between them. The Work Cited page should be on its own page at the end, alphabetized, and use a hanging indent. In-text citations should match the first item in the Work Cited entry plus

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Mla formatting made easy

Page 1
Margins
• 1 inch all the way around
• To set margin: File – page set-up – margins
Font – 12 Times New Roman
Spacing - double
Heading – also double spaced
First Name, Last name
Teacher’s Name
Class Number
Date Month Year (26 September 2010) no commas
Header
Click ‘view’ – header & footer
The header will appear inside a gray box
On the menu bar, align ‘right’
Write last name
Click ‘insert’ – page number – right. It will appear on every page
Title – Next space after heading. Type title centered. *There is no extra space
between the heading and the title and the paper
Indent – ½ inch indention for each paragraph. No extra space between syllables

Work Cited
“Work Cited” written at the top of the last page, on it’s own page (can do a ‘page
break’ so it doesn’t move as you add writing above it. (Put cursor at the end of
the actual document – insert – break)
Double-spaced; everything continues to be double-spaced, just like the rest of
the paper – no extra space between entries.
Hanging indent – means first like is flush with the margin, but 2nd & 3rd line of an
entry is indented.
Alphabetical order
Entries
You will never memorize how to do entries because they change so much,
according to what kind of source you use. I will give you some general ones
here, but when you do your paper, you should go to this website and find the one
that fits best.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

In-text Citations
Once you make the Work Cited page, the in-text citations are easy. It is the first
thing on your works cited entry + a page number if it is a book.
So if this sentence were a fact from a book by me, found on page 311, you would
cite it this way (Horneck, 311).
Notice the period is after the in-text citation.

What do you cite? Anything & everything you learned in your research. If it is
information that the general public knows or that you can easily find in multiple
sources, you do not need to cite it. It is not just quotes. It is any new fact that you
learned.

Quotations
Use very few quotations. If you are quoting a famous person, then you should
quote it because it adds authority to your paper. Sometimes the person just said
it so well and there is just no other way to say it. If your reader wants to read
another person’s writing, he can read the person’s book – he wants to read your
work.

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