MLA Format What it is. How to use it.

What is MLA format? MLA format is the format adopted by the Modern Languages Association. It is revised and published in a new edition every few years.

MLA Format – General Notes MLA is the format adopted by HHS. Any major assignment you hand in at HHS should be done in MLA format! At a minimum, your assignments should have the proper: Title Page format Line spacing (double-spaced throughout) Font size (12 throughout) Page numbering (e.g. “Name 3” in the upper right-hand corner on every page of the text of the piece of writing*) In-page references when you quote a text or make reference to specific details in it. List of Works Cited at the end

Essays or Shorter Works MLA Title Page Format Essays or Shorter Works Beginning one inch from the top of the first page and flush with the left  margin, type on separate lines and double space between each line 1.                  Your name 2.                  Your teacher’s name 3.                  The course number 4.                  The date (Day Month Year) Double space again and center the title. Double space between the title and the first line of the text. Do not underline your title or put it in quotations marks or type it in all capital letters.

Narrative Perspective in To Kill a Mockingbird Right 1 Tracy Right Mr. Stoddart Writing 110 28 September 2009 A Doubled Vision: Narrative Perspective in To Kill a Mockingbird Authors sometimes present readers with narrative perspectives that are specific to characters that are also a part of the action. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by Scout Finch, a

MLA Title Page Format Longer Works or Works with several parts – Alternate MLA Title Page Format You may use the alternate title page for shorter works, but it is less environmentally friendly, and not recommended.

Cellular Testosterone Writing Portfolio: Cellular Testosterone Charles Brown 1947009183 Writing 110 Mr. Stoddart September 29, 2009

If you include an outline/preface/Table of Contents with your paper, it should precede the paper itself and be numbered i, ii, iii, etc.

Brown i Table of Contents Why am I so scared?: Elderly computer users . . . . . . 1 New tech, new problems: Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Re-defining “user friendly applications” . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Preparing a Works Cited List

Works Cited The works cited page lists every work you refer to in your own work. For book details, refer to the title page and the back of the title page (called the copyright page), NOT the cover. There are four main sources for your works cited page. They are: Print Sources Government Sources Media Sources Internet Sources

Works Cited Page Format Centre the words Works Cited 1/2 inch below the line with the page number. List items alphabetically by author’s last name. If no name is given, begin with the title. Double space everything. Do NOT number the entries. See the handout (or pp. 64-85 of the College Style Guide) for examples of how to write references for different sources.

The basic Works Cited entry: Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City, State: Publisher, year.

Smith 8 Works Cited Freud, Sigmund. A General Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. John Rickman. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1957. Rossetti, Christina. “An Apple Gathering.” 1861. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al. 4th ed. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1979. Tyler, Anne. “Holding Things Together.” We Are the Stories We Tell. Ed. Wendy Martin. New York: Pantheon, 1990. 150-63. Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New York: Harper, 1976.

Exercise We will go to the library. (The library is that place on the first floor filled with books.) Choose FIVE books, and prepare a works cited list (as if these are the sources for your I-Search Paper). Recommendation: Use your time in the library to research books and articles related to your portfolio topic! This assignment is due by the end of class on Wednesday or by the start of class on Thursday.

Stuck? Try this site: http://citationmachine.net/