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Formatting your paper.

Formatting your paper. (MLA Style). Formatting the running header. Go to “Microsoft Word” Click on “insert” Click on “header & footer” Click on “page number” Click on “top of page” Click on “plain number 3” Type in your last name. It should automatically paginate your paper.

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Formatting your paper.

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  1. Formatting your paper. (MLA Style)

  2. Formatting the running header Go to “Microsoft Word” Click on “insert” Click on “header & footer” Click on “page number” Click on “top of page” Click on “plain number 3” Type in your last name. It should automatically paginate your paper. Click on “escape”

  3. Format the paper Set margins to one-inch (top, bottom, left and right). Set line spacing at “double” Eliminate “before” and “after” spacing Set tab at .5” (this is the default for most computers).

  4. What’s next? • On the first page ONLY, you will need a heading on the upper left corner: • Your first and last name • Your teacher’s name • Your class and period (AL – 5th) • The date formatted as DAY MONTH YEAR. Ima Student Ms. Bishop/Ms. Kappel AL – 1st 28 March 2011

  5. And then… Next, center your title by using the center option on the toolbar at the top of the page. Titles may end in exclamation points, or question marks if appropriate, but there is no need for a period at the end of a title. Titles are NOT underlined, in bold, or italicized.

  6. How to Format a Works Cited Page • The works cited page is on the last page of your research paper. • All sources are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. • All entries have a hanging indent. • To create a hanging indent, • Go to “paragraph” • Select “special” • Click on “hanging”

  7. Example of a Works Cited Page Works Cited  “Castles in Medieval Times.” Your child learns.com. 2000. Owl and Mouse. Web. 9 March 2003. “Egypt.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. Mar. 1997. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 29 Feb. 2000. Gorman, Elizabeth. Prairie Women. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Roberts, Sheila. “A Confined World.” World Literature Written in English. 24 (1984): 223-38. Rpt. In Twentieth Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402.

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