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MLA Formatting English III AP

MLA Format—Font and Spacing §EVERY MLA formatted paper will use Times New Roman 12 -point font (or an extremely similar font). §The ENTIRE paper will be double spaced with NO extra spacing anywhere.

MLA Format—Running Header � EVERY page of an MLA formatted paper will have the student’s last name and the correct page number in the upper righthand corner. (Space after the name before the number. ) The first page has the full heading so you may eliminate the header on page 1 if you know how to do it. � Do not use any extra lines, letters, designs, shading, etc.

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MLA Format— 4 -Line Heading This heading will appear ONLY on page 1. ü Your name in regular order ü Your instructor’s name as he/she prefers it to appear ü The complete course information ü The date written in military order DO NOT TYPE THIS INTO THE HEADER OF YOUR COMPUTER – type it manually on the first page.

Doe 1 Josephine Doe Ms. Voss English 1314. 7 1 December 2016

MLA Format—Title �Center the title of the paper on the very next line after the heading �NO extra space �DO NOT change font size, type or style �DO NOT punctuate an original title �If your title includes the name of a published work, punctuate that title according to proper title punctuation rules within your full title

Doe 1 Josephine Doe Ms. Voss English 1314. 7 1 December 2016 Title of the Paper

MLA Format—Indentation �Indent EVERY paragraph (to include the first) 5 spaces

Doe 1 Josephine Doe Ms. Voss English 1314. 7 1 December 2016 Title of the Paper Begin the paper on this line after indenting. Every other line is up against the left margin.

Parenthetical Documentation ü The critic said, “I have heard Martina Arroyo sing at the opera. ” ü The critic said, “I have heard Martina Arroyo sing at the opera” (Redding 57). The information inside parenthesis is called parenthetical documentation. It contains author’s last name, a space, then the page number on which the quote was found within a text. If the next quote is from the same author, only put the page number.

Doe 3 Works Cited Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Mac. Murray, 1999. Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.

Titles �Italicize titles of novels, magazines, plays, newspapers, albums, works of art, names of ships �Place in “quotation marks” titles of short stories or chapters, articles, songs, poems

Extra Help � For tutorials, visit the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab). � Beware of online citation machines! They can be wrong.

If you are unsure, Look it up!