Source It Right A guide to setting up your essay in 8 steps - MLA 7 -

1. Source It Right A guide to setting up your essay in 8 steps - MLA 7 - Erindale Secondary School Library Information Centre B. Low – Teacher Librarian Jan. 2011

2. Guide to MLA Formatting in Word 2007 • Set up 1” margins • Use Times New Roman 12 font • Create a header and continuous numbering throughout your paper • Double space your essay • On the left hand side of the first page, put • Your name • Your teacher’s name • The course code • The date written: Day Month Year

3. Guide to MLA Formatting in Word 2007 (continued) • The title of your essay should come next, centred. • The body of your essay should be double spaced, with the start of each paragraph indented one tab. • Long quotes (more than 3 lines) should be block indented • Your Works Cited should be the last page in your paper (make sure it is on a separate page)

4. Step 1 - Margins In Page Layout, set your margins to Normal (1” top, bottom, sides)

5. Step 2 – Font and Size From Home, select Times New Roman font, size 12

6. Step 3 - Header From Insert, Click on Header, then select Edit Header.

7. Step 3 (continued) Press tab, tab, then type in your name. Press the space bar after this.

8. Step 3 (continued) From the Header and Footer Tools, select Page Number then Current Position, Plain Number

9. Step 3 (continued) Press Close Header and Footer button or Double click in document to exit

10. Step 4 - Spacing From Home, click on Line Spacing. Choose 2.0

11. Step 5 – Format First Page In upper left corner, key in: Your Name, Your Teacher’s Name, Your Course Code Date in format: 24 Jan. 2011 Key in essay title, centred

12. Step 6 – Essay Body Key in your essay text, indenting one tab at the start of each paragraph

13. Step 6 (continued) Block indent long quotes

14. Step 7 – Works Cited On a separate page at the end of your essay, key in your works cited. You can select the text and pull the bottom triangle across to form a Hanging Indention

15. Step 7 (continued) • Be sure your Works Cited follows MLA 7 Guidelines: • Alphabetical order by author’s surname, or whatever comes first in citation • The part that comes first is what goes in the bracket in your embedded citation in the body of your essay!

16. Where to go to get help: • Source It (By Peel teachers) • At school, on the Student Intranet • At home, on the library My Class site

21. Where to go to get help: • Your Student Planner • Near the back, there is a page which shows you what you need to know to do a proper Works Cited • The guide is great for the examples shown EXCEPT it does not double space (even though they tell you to do so in the instructions)!

22. Where to go to get help: • Your teacher-librarians • Mrs. Low and Ms Foster will be more than happy to make sure that you set up your work in the proper format

23. Practice... • On the library My Class page, • Go to “Homework” • Open the “Source It Right in MLA 7” folder • Open up the “MLA Exercise” • When finished, use your name for the file’s name and save your exercise under your teacher’s folder in the “I” drive: • Save As • Students • 4students – In • MLA Exercise – Your teacher’s name