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Applying MLA guidelines to essays and papers
Go to the CCL Ohio State Handouts site to see exactly how to set up your page in MLA format. (My directions are below, but the directions at the CCL site above have screenshots which will help you visual learners. :)
Typing your Works Cited Name__________________ Class______________ Date_________ General info: “MLA style requires you to list your sources with full bibliographic information at the end of the paper. The usual title is Works Cited (Miss Carnie’s note: Do not put the title in quotes or add a period!) The list begins on a new page and continues the paper's page numbers. 1. Open a Word Document 2. Go to File/Page Set up, and make sure the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right margins are one inch. 3. Go to Format/Paragraph, and under Indentation, Special, select "Hanging" and 0.5 "Each entry begins flush with the left margin, and if one line across to the right margin is not enough room for the entire citation, then" double space and indent half an inch for the second [and third, if necessary] lines. "Learn how to do hanging indents in your word processor of choice to manage this; in a pinch, indent five spaces from the left margin)." Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references 4. Go to Format/font, and choose Black/ Times New Roman (or Arial)/ size 12. Printing and fonts Type: don't turn in handwritten formal work. Make a print on only one side of the page, in black ink. Use a plain serif or sans-serif font—no cursive fonts, size 12, Times Roman or Arial." 5. Go to View/Header Footer/ and type in your last name plus whatever page number this will be at the end of your essay. Then right justify it so that it hugs the right border. Example:
Carnie 4 Like other page numbers, the page number appears in the upper-right hand corner, half an inch from the top and flush with the right margin (all margins are one inch). 6. Type Works Cited and space it so that it is in the middle The title is centered, an inch from the top of the page. 7. Double-space between title and the first entry. 8. The whole list is double-spaced with no blank line between entries.” Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/ (To see an illustration and to answer Works Cited questions, go to the "Second Section Listed Below.") 9. Make sure you alphabetize your sources by the first entry. Remember that A, An,
and The are disregarded
when alphabetizing the list of works cited. 10. Proofread carefully and use Whiteout. Every little glitch means points will be taken off. Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references
"Second Section Listed Below" :)
Preparing your rough drafts of your Works Cited….
INFO about how to cite different kinds of sources
You will also need to
collect all the information you will need to
cite the source correctly on your Works Cited
page. (The "collect all the information" link
above tells how
to list a source in your Works Cited, as well
as explaining how to handle a source
with no author's name.)
Author’s Last name, First Name. “Title of the Article in Quotations.” Title of the Book. Ed. First name Last name. City: Publisher, Copyright.
Last name of director, First name of director, dir. Title of Movie. Date of release. Title of main page of site. Date you accessed the site 26 March 2003 <http://blake.prohosting.com/awsm/script/braveht.txt >.
Note: You may need to toggle the info back and forth in order to place the second and third lines in five spaces. When you type the url, if it automatically underlines the link in blue, then select the link, left click, right click, and choose “Remove hyperlink.” Then you can re-format the font if it is wrong. 3. My website (Change what is different in your data.) Carnie, Pamela J. "Background Information on Romanticism."
Mar. 2004. Alief Independent School District. 30 Mar. 2004
<http://vanguard.alief.isd.tenet.edu/carniep/
4. Your Other source: (Here’s where it gets tricky and you have to look up the information.) Decide what type of source you used – either not on line. Look up the information below and fill in the blanks. Write your notes below for your third source (and any other sources if you have more than three.)
Source Found Not On-line
Source Found On-line
The page problem One complication of online documents is that they usually lack page numbers, so it's not easy to point readers to particular passages. In order to direct readers as closely as possible to the right source passage, use whatever divisions the work is formatted in. Look for division numbers, section titles or for words like Introduction and Conclusion (See link for MLA style to know how to use quotation marks and underlining or italics for different kinds of titles).
Citing an Article in an Anthology Use Noodle Tools to help you :) write the data in MLA format: Noodle Tools (More possible sources)
or Noodle Tools MLA Starter Mode (fill in the blank)
Citing information from a Galenet site Works Cited Template-- Simply type your information into the page already created in MLA format.
Source 1: For citations you need help with Noodleboard (The question may be already answered there..)
Source 2: For questions about quoting something from the internet http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references ________________________________________________________________ Why am I torturing you (uh.. Teaching you) like this? I am teaching you these skills because I would like YOU to know that you are developing the following Habits of Mind, that you can and you also have the skills listed here.
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Easy!!
One step at a time.. 
