1. MLA
Like a Boss

2. Step 1: Change the Font
Your paper must be typed in Times New Roman size 12 font.

3. Step 2: Adjust Margins To change the margins, click:
Page Layout>Margins>Custom Margins…
The Left, Bottom, and Right Margins will be 1”
The Top bottom will be 0.5”

4. Step 3: Insert Page Numbers
Every page must be numbered. To add page numbers, do not simply go to “Header” instead you must click:
Insert>Page Number>Top of Page> Plain Number 3
Always remember to change the font to Times New Roman! It will default back to Calibri

5. Step 4: Write Heading Your heading should always look like this: Name
Teacher’s Name
Course name (English 11)
Date (written like: 12 November 2014)

6. Step 5: Title From the end of your date: press enter two times
click “Center Align” (or Ctrl+E)
type your title
press Enter twice
Press the Tab button, and now you’re ready to start typing!

7. Step 6: Spacing
After you have finished your first line of text, follow these steps:
Press Ctrl+A to highlight your entire paper
Right click on highlighted text and click Paragraph
Change “Line Spacing” from Multiple to Double

8. Moving Right Along…
Now that your paper is in the correct format, you’re going to learn how to create in-text citations. In Text Citations are when you directly quote from, summarize, or paraphrase an outside source

9. Citing Evidence
When referencing somebody else’s work you must acknowledge that person in one of two ways.
Using a signal phrase
Including the author’s name in your citation.
This site helped a lot:

10. Signal Phrase
A signal phrase is a phrase, clause or sentence that that introduces a quotation. Example 1: Susan Vreeland writes that Magdalena "loves looking out at the sea" (8). Example 2: Magdalena is a pensive girl who longs "to sit for a painting" like her sister (Vreeland 8).

11. But hey, what if…
If you don’t know the author’s name: Use shortened version of title in quotation marks Example: ("Magdalena" 8). If there are no page numbers: Cite Paragraph number. Example: (par.4). Lower case p

12. And Remember, Kids…
Longer publications (such as Books, newspapers, etc) are Italisized Short works (such as articles and short stories) are “in parenthesis” And finally…

13. Creating a Works Cited Page
At any point during your writing, click Insert>Page Break This will start a new page below the page you are currently working on and will always stay one page away from what you are writing.

14. Formatting a Works Cited Page
To create a Works Cited page:
Insert page break
Center Align (ctrl+E) and type Works Cited
Press Enter twice
Paste the citation that you created from Easybib.com
Press Enter
Repeat steps 4 and 5 with all of the sources that you used in your paper

15. Formatting a Works Cited Page II
Once you have all of your sources on the page:
Highlight all of your sources
Right click on the highlighted area and select Paragraph
In the Indentation section, under Special, change it from (none) to Hanging