MLA FORMATTING

1. MLA FORMATTING ____________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Standard One Inch Margins First Page ONLY – Upper Left Hand Corner: Your Name, Your Professor’s Name, the Course & Section Number, and the Date (Do not use the Insert Header Function in your Word Processing Program, i.e. Microsoft Word) Every Page – Upper Right Hand Corner: Your Last Name and the Page Number (Use the Insert Page Number Function in your Word Processing Program) Title Centered Double-Spaced 12 Point Font, Times New Roman

2. AVOIDING DROPPED QUOTES & INTEGRATING SOURCED MATERIAL • Introduce Establish the Credibility of the Source Material • Explain Reiterate the Quoted Material for Clarity: “By this…” or “In other words…” • Integrate Show the Relevance of the Source Material to Your Thesis/Stance/Claim

3. DROPPED QUOTES Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and had three siblings. “Hemingway was an abusive drunk.” He eventually moved to Kansas City and worked as a cub reporter. Hemingway then moved to Toronto and then onto Europe, where he met up with his literary counterparts. This is where his excessive drinking habits and violent behavior took form. Dr. Fenstermaker, a renowned Hemingway expert and tenured professor at Harvard University, said, “Hemingway was an abusive drunk” (Smith 54). By this, he suggests that Hemingway used alcohol not only to incite his bitter rage, but also as a conflagrant to burn the bridges between himself and his mentors. This supports the stance that Hemingway did all he could to break the ties with those who taught him the craft. Example of a Dropped Quote Example of an Integrated Quote

4. STANDARD QUOTES • Standard quotes are four lines or less • You should not have more than 3-4 standard quotes on a single page. EXAMPLE: Dr. Fenstermaker, a renowned Hemingway expert and tenured professor at Harvard University, said, “Hemingway was an abusive drunk” (Smith 54).

5. BLOCK QUOTES B D C E • Must be FIVE lines or more • Lead into a Block Quotes with a colon, not a comma • Indent the Block Quote in its entirety • Do not use Quotation Marks • The Period comes before the Parenthetical Citation • No more than ONE Block Quote per three pages

6. Parenthetical Citations with Standard Quotes Dr. Fenstermaker, a renowned Hemingway expert and tenured professor at Harvard University, said, “Hemingway was an abusive drunk” (Smith 54). • End Quote • Parenthetical Citation • Period 1. 2. 3.

7. In-Text Citations with Standard Quotes Dr. Fenstermaker, a renowned Hemingway expert and tenured professor at Harvard University, said, “Hemingway was an abusive drunk” (54). When the author of the quote is the same as the author of the article/book from which the quote is found, you do not need to include the last name of the author inside of the parenthetical; all you need is the page number where the quote was found.

8. Ellipses & Brackets • Ellipses are used to show information has been removed or omitted (Example found on previous slide) • Brackets clarify pronoun/noun usage and can correct verb tense issues. EXAMPLE: “He is considered the forefathr of modern thought and the theory of naturalism” (Jones 824). “[Freud was] is considered the forefather of modern thought and the theory of naturalism” (Jones 824).

9. TITLES • The titles of Longer Works (Books, Films, Albums, Collections, Anthologies, Sitcoms…) need to be ITALICIZED Catcher and the Rye • The titles of Shorter Works (Poem, Song, Short Stories, Articles, Journals, Episodes…) need to be in “QUOTES” “The Story of an Hour” Capitalize all words in a title except for Prepositions, Articles and Conjunctions, unless the title starts or ends in these types of words.

10. Works Cited • Alphabetized • (No Numbers or Bullets) • 2. Hanging Indention • (The only full line of text should be the first line of each source; each additional line of a source is indented) • 3. Works Cited should head the page • (No Bold, Underline or Quotation Marks, just plain old 12 point Font, Times New Roman)