1) HOW DO I FORMAT MY PAPER?
Here are sample MLA pages (first page of your essay, a middle page, works cited page) with specifics about format, margins, heading for your paper, and where to put page numbers.
2) HOW DO I WRITE MY WORKS CITED ENTRIES?
Different kinds of resources require different kinds of entries. To learn how to do Works Cited entries, start here.
The most common kinds of entries are listed below, but if you don't see your kind of resource, please go to the link above.
Book:
Last name of author, first name. Title of Book. City of publication: name of publisher, year it was published.
Work in anthology:
Last name of author, first name. “Title of Article or Story.” Title of Anthology. Name of editor in anthology. City of publication: name of publisher, year it was published. Page numbers in which it appears.
An example:
Wilson, Anthony. “I Play Basketball.” A Collection of Stories About Basketball. Ed. Emanule Soto. New York: Harper Collins, 2010. 250-262.
Article from newspaper, accessed online: Last name of author, first name. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper. Date the article appeared. Date the article was accessed <link to the article>.
NOTE. Dates should be written in a very specific way: 6 Dec. 2010
Any month with more than five letters should be abbreviated into three letters.
HOW DO I DO IN-TEXT CITATIONS?
Newspapers accessed online, or online-only newspapers. According to the New York Times, Belgium forced Africans into slave-like labor, so that Belgium could make money from ivory and growing rubber trees in the Congo, and during that time Belgians committed all kinds of atrocities against Africans, like whipping them and cutting their hands off (Davies).
The most common kinds of entries are listed below, but if you don't see your kind of resource, please go to the link above.
Book:
Last name of author, first name. Title of Book. City of publication: name of publisher, year it was published.
Work in anthology:
Last name of author, first name. “Title of Article or Story.” Title of Anthology. Name of editor in anthology. City of publication: name of publisher, year it was published. Page numbers in which it appears.
An example:
Wilson, Anthony. “I Play Basketball.” A Collection of Stories About Basketball. Ed. Emanule Soto. New York: Harper Collins, 2010. 250-262.
Article from newspaper, accessed online: Last name of author, first name. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper. Date the article appeared. Date the article was accessed <link to the article>.
NOTE. Dates should be written in a very specific way: 6 Dec. 2010
Any month with more than five letters should be abbreviated into three letters.
HOW DO I DO IN-TEXT CITATIONS?
A: Go here for a list of how to do different kinds of in-text citations.
Some quick examples:
Books. When Marlow finally meets Kurtz, he describes him as a “gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words,” but then he also describes his words as coming from “the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness” (Conrad 87).
Work in anthology. In the end, the narrator sees himself as a "creature driven and derided by vanity" (Joyce 105).
Some quick examples:
Books. When Marlow finally meets Kurtz, he describes him as a “gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words,” but then he also describes his words as coming from “the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness” (Conrad 87).
Work in anthology. In the end, the narrator sees himself as a "creature driven and derided by vanity" (Joyce 105).
Newspapers accessed online, or online-only newspapers. According to the New York Times, Belgium forced Africans into slave-like labor, so that Belgium could make money from ivory and growing rubber trees in the Congo, and during that time Belgians committed all kinds of atrocities against Africans, like whipping them and cutting their hands off (Davies).
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