1. MLA and Summer reading project formatting

2. Formatting
Please remember the following things when formatting your paper: -You need to use Times New Roman font (it is not the default font) -Your font size should be 12 point (sometimes default is 11, so be careful.) -Your paper should be double spaced. -You should have 1 inch margins (which should be the default).

3. More formatting
-The titles of all novels are EITHER underlined or italicized, but never both! -When you refer to an author, you either refer to them by their first and last name or simply their LAST name.

4. MLA formatting within your paper
When using MLA, you need to make sure you do it right. When doing a quote by itself: “The real reason for the quest is always self-knowledge.” When doing a quote with a parenthetical citation: “The real reason for the quest is always self-knowledge” (Foster 3). When doing a quote with a author lead-in and parenthetical citation: Foster states that “[t]he reason for the quest is always self-knowledge” (3).

5. Mla formatting within your paper
When you want to use a quote in the middle of the quote: Foster states that it is mainly teenagers are “likely to have a long way to go in the self- knowledge department” (3). When you need to omit (take out) words in a quotes: “Forty-five-year-old men either have self-knowledge…while your average sixteen-to- seventeen-year-old kid is likely to have a long way to go in the self-knowledge department” (Foster 3).

6. Mla formatting within your paper
When your quote is longer than four lines in the referenced text (block quote): In face, the quest is very important because of this: The quest consists of five things: (a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, and (e) a real reason to go there. Item (a) is easy; a quester is just a person who goes on a quest, whether or not he know it’s a quest. In fact, usually he doesn’t know. (Foster 3)

7. Works cited
When doing a Works Cited, make sure to do the following: -Sources must be in alpha order. -If the source goes on to a second line, the second line will be indented. -For formatting, look it up on the internet. There are so many rules. Use the Purdue Owl website (it’s the best one).