1. MLA Format
Learn now! This will be used for all writing pieces during your high school career!

2. Why learn MLA?
Creates a document format that is consistent with your peers’ work
Professional way to format your work

3. MLA Regulations
Document format
In-text citations
Works-cited page

4. Document Format
Every time you type a document, it must be formatted as follows:
Times New Roman
Size 12 font
Double spaced
Indent each paragraph
If a title is used, it is centered and NOT underlined or in BOLD.

5. Document Format (continued)
Whether you type or handwrite a document, include the following:
In the top left hand corner:
Your name, your teacher’s name, the course (English 9 or English 10), and the date
The date should be written with the day first, then the month, then the year with NO punctuations in between
27 August 2014

6. Document Format (continued)
In the top right hand corner, include the following:
Create a header with your last name and the page number
Do not use punctuation between the name and number
Do not write “page” or “pg”

7. How to create a header
Go to the “Insert” tab at the top of the document
Click on the “Page Number” tab which you’ll see below the “Header” and “Footer” tabs.
Choose the option with the number in the top right hand corner
Click the cursor before the number and type your last name. Be sure to capitalize your name.
Close the Header/Footer
Your last name will now appear on each page and the page number will be updated automatically

8. Sample of Proper Document Format

9. Terminology
Source: book, magazine, internet website, etc. where you get your information
Direct quote: word for word sentence(s) that you take from a source
Citing: When you use a direct quote from a text
In-text citation: where credit is given to the source in your paper

10. What information should you cite?
Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium
Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing
When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase
When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials
When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media, including images, audio, video, or other media

11. When do you not have to cite?
Writing your own lived experiences, your own observations and insights, your own thoughts, and your own conclusions about a subject
When you are writing up your own results obtained through lab or field experiments
When you use your own artwork, digital photographs, video, audio, etc.
When you are using "common knowledge," things like folklore, common sense observations, myths, urban legends, and historical events (but not historical documents)
When you are using generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for the environment, including facts that are accepted within particular discourse communities, e.g., in the field of composition studies, "writing is a process" is a generally-accepted fact.

12. In-Text Citations
Whenever you quote a line from a book, magazine, interview, etc. you must give credit to the person/author who said it.
These quotes provide PROOF to support your argument or claim.
You will list the majority of that source information in your Works-Cited page
In the actual paper, it is much simpler.

13. In-Text Citations (continued)
Creating a strong citation:
When you add in your quote, begin with a lead-in, followed by the quote, and then the citation.
Lead in + quote + citation
Example: One outstanding piece of advice is “…a man is rich in proportion to what he can afford to let alone” (Thoreau 67).
Which is the lead in (underline)? Which is the quote (circle)? Which is the citation (highlight)?

14. What does the citation do?
One outstanding piece of advice is “…a man is rich in proportion to what he can afford to let alone” (Thoreau 67).
What does the word “Thoreau” indicate?
What do you think the 67 indicates?

15. Citation Punctuation Period goes AFTER the citation
Put the quotation marks BEFORE the parenthesis for the citation
Do NOT put a punctuation mark in between the author’s name and the page number
“To be or not to be, that is the question” (Shakespeare 54).

16. Create one of your own!
Quote: “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Page #: 76
Underline the lead in and highlight the citation

17. Hmmm….what if? What if there isn’t an author?
Put the first two or three words of the title of the source in your citation
What if you mention the author in the lead-in?
Only put the page number in the citation
What if there is more than one author?
Write both authors’ names as listed on the Works-Cited page

18. Connection between In-Text and Works-Cited Page
The author that you added to the citation shows the reader where to look on the Works-Cited page.
The Works-Cited page gives bibliographic information about the source including publisher, date of publication, etc.

19. Works-Cited Page Format
Your Works-Cited page should come at the end of your paper but start on a fresh page

20. Works-Cited Page Format
Step 1: Enter down from the conclusion of your research paper to a fresh page
Step 2: Check your header which should have your last name and the page number that correlates with the end of the paper
Step 3: Create a title: Works-Cited. Title should be centered and be in the same font (TNR) and size (12) as the rest of the paper. Should not be underlined or bold

21. Works-Cited Page Format
Step 4: Enter source information in alphabetical order based on the first word of the citation (typically author’s last name)
Step 5: The second line and any additional lines of the citations should be indented
Called a “hanging indent”

22. Practice
Take your three source cards from “Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists”, “India: Hanged woman…”, and “Two Decades Later…” (from your test), and create a works cited page on lined paper.

23. Sample Works-Cited Source
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: HarperCollins, Print.

24. Formative Assessment 1. What is the purpose of an in-text citation?
Create a citation using the following information:
Quote: “In the blink of an eye, life passes you by.”
Author: Bryan McKinney
Page: 22

25. Which of these should be cited?
On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by hijacked airplanes.
Atta, Binalshibh, al Shehhi, and Jarrah had lived in Germany and were chosen over more established Al Qaeda members due to their exposure to the West and ability to speak English.

26. Which of THESE do you need to cite?
A. “The science labs at East St. Louis High School are 30 to 50 years outdated.” B. When public schools were segregated, conditions were not equal.

27. A! It is very specific, even w/ out quotes!
Use the Works-Cited information and create an in- text citation on a post-it, starting with the end- quote. Choose a page number based on Works- Cited information. In the Works Cited: Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: HarperCollins, Print.

28. In-Text Citation
……..” (Kozol 27).