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John Smith (your name)
Mrs. Susan Cowart (teacher’s name)
English (insert you class name here)
28 February 2017 (due date)
Title of Paper
Begin your paper here and follow these directions for Word. Notice the indentation for paragraphs is ½ inch or 5 spaces, which is the default tab. Your paper should be double-spaced. Do this by going to the Page Layout tab and find the Spacing box. Click on the bottom right corner arrow, open the paragraph box, and make sure the spacing is double. Make sure the spacing Before and After are both at 0 pt! Margins are Normal at 1 inch all around. This is how the first page should appear (Cowart).
Now you need to create the header with the page number. First, go to Insert and Page Number, Top of Page, and Plain Number 3 to choose the right side. At this point, simply type your Last name in front of the page number, hit the space bar, and it will be on every page.
Notice that I used parenthetical citation/documentation with my name as an example of how the citations should look. You will not put your own name in the paper like this. You will put the last name of the author of your source or the first words of the article title in quotation marks in the parentheses. Of course, you can also say something like the following sentence. According to Mrs. Cowart and the MLA handbook, I should follow this format for my first page if I want my paper to be set up properly and get full credit. This is how your paper should look.
On the next page you will find a mock up of a Works Cited Page. Notice the format; it is still doubled spaced without having extra spaces. Keep the 0 pt before and after. Indent second lines by creating a hanging indent by choosing Page Layout, Paragraph, Special, and Hanging.
Works Cited
American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. Random, 1998.
Banks, Lynne Reid. Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontes. Delacorte, 1976.
Bagchi, Alaknanda. “Conflicting nationalisms: the Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s Bashi Tudu.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
Chevalier, Tracy. "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Novels for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis, vol. 45, Gale, 2014, pp. 69-90. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=warn43779&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX1518800015&asid=3855e4cbfea74ff2a323cad90c15d8eb. Accessed 14 Feb. 2017.
Demko, George J., Jerome Agel, and Eugene Boe. Why in the World: Adventures in Geography. Anchor-Doubleday, 2003.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96.ProQuest, doi:10.1017/S0018246X06005966. Accessed 27 May 2009.
"A Newly Discovered Photograph of a Bronte Reveals a Sweet Charlotte." People Weekly. 10 March 1985: 93.
"Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797 - 1851)." Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Ed. Jessica Bomarito. Vol. 3: L-Z. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 319-358. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Feb. 2017.
Young, Marguerite. “Metaphysical Fiction.” Modern Critical View: Carson McCullers. Edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1986. pp. 7-10.
Whatever EBSCOhost has, simply copy and paste, but be sure to correct the capital letters. There will never be words with all caps. I don’t care what the website shows. Correct them!!
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Remember that this page is just an example! Use the handouts that I gave you for complete information on citations or Google – OWL at Perdue MLA 8.