THE WRITING PROCESS: Editing MLA Format

1. THE WRITING PROCESS:EditingMLA Format

2. Heading Varuca Salt Mrs. Lee English 10 Honors 26 March 2014

3. Spacing: Method #1 Remove extra space before and after paragraphs Highlight the entire research paper. Then Remove space before and after paragraphs

4. Spacing: Method #2 Remove extra space before and after paragraphs Step 1: Highlight the entire research paper. Click on Line Spacing Options

5. Spacing: Method #2 cont’dRemove extra space before and after paragraphs Step 2: Make sure the spacing Before and After is set to 0 pt

6. Citing Pictures Illustrations • Illustrations are directly embedded into the document, as close as possible to the parts of the text to which they relate. • Illustrations should be labeled Figure 1 • Abbreviated as Fig. 1 (no bold or italics) • This label appears twice: • In your paper. Example: (see Fig. 1) • In the caption. Example: Fig. 1 • Caption appears directly below the illustration • Provides titles or explanatory notes

7. Citing Pictures Illustrations • You may provide the citation in the caption • If you do this, you do not need to cite the illustration on the Works Cited page

8. Citing Pictures Example Anglo-Saxons often engrave their weapons with runes (see fig. 1). Fig. 1. Tenth century Anglo-Saxon seax found in the River Thames,Beowulf on Steorarume, www.heorot.dk,Web.