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MLA Format

How should your paper look?  Double-space  Times New Roman  12 pt. font size  1 inch margins  Header that numbers all pages in the upper right-hand corner  Works Cited page (if necessary)

How should your paper look?  NO title page!!!  Upper left-hand corner of the first page should have:  your name  your instructor's name  the course  the date  A title (not underlined or in quotes)

In-Text Citations  Place the author's name followed by a space and the relevant page number(s)  *Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).  *Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

In-Text Citations: multiple authors or unknown authors ...as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).  An anonymous Wordsworth critic once argued that his poems were too emotional ("Wordsworth Is a Loser" 100).

Work Cited: Books  Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.  Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, Print.  Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, Print.

Work Cited: Magazine  Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication.  Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Print.  Buchman, Dana. "A Special Education." Good Housekeeping Mar. 2006: Print.

Work Cited: Entire Web Site  Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.  Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

For example:  The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, Web. 23 Apr  Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov Web. 10 May 2006.

Work Cited: Page on a Web Site  "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow, n.d. Web. 24 Feb

Work Cited: Internet Image or Photograph  Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo National del Prado. Web. 22 May  Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive. Web. 22 May 2006.