MLA Research Paper (Levi)

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Marginal annotations indicate MLA-style formatting and effective writing.

Title is centeredabout one-thirddown the page.

Writer’s name iscentered aroundthe middle of thepage.

Course name,professor’s name,and date are centered near thebottom of the page.

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Outline pages are numbered with small romannumerals.

Outline beginswith thesis anduses standard format.

Outline is written in completesentences.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Writer’s name and pagenumber are typed 1⁄2''from top of each page.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Text of the paperbegins on page 1.

Title is repeatedand centered.

Statistic is citedwith author’s nameand page number in parentheses.

Thesis asserts PaulLevi’s main point.

Headings help readers follow theorganization.

For a quotation,the author isnamed in a signalphrase; the pagenumber is inparentheses.

A summary and a quotation areintroduced with a signal phrasenaming the authors; a pagenumber is givenin parentheses.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

Long quotation isintroduced by asentence namingthe authors.

A long quotation is indented; noquotation marksare needed.

Ellipsis dots showthat words havebeen omitted.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

A corporate authoris named in a sig-nal phrase; pagenumber is given in parentheses.

Clear topic sentences areused throughout.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

An indirect source—words quoted inanother source— iscited with the term“qtd. in.”

Transitional para-graph serves as abridge to the nextsection.

No citation isneeded for com-mon knowledge.

Government sourceis listed under“United States”in the works citedlist and in theparentheses.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

For a summary,the author’s nameis in parentheses;no page number is available.

The paper endswith Levi’s standon the controversy.

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Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

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Works Cited

Ambrose, Anthony. Letter. New England Journal of Medicine 337

(1997): 128.

Cain, Alasdair, and Mark Burris. “Investigation of the Use of

Mobile Phones while Driving.” Apr. 1999. Center for

Urban Transportation Research. 12 Mar. 2001 <http://

www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/its/mobile_phone_text.html>.

Cohen, Peter J. Letter. New England Journal of Medicine 337

(1997): 127.

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. “Cellular Phones and Driving:

Weighing the Risks and Benefits.” Risk in Perspective July

2000. 15 Mar. 2001 <http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/pdf/

July2000.pdf>.

Jacobs, Annette. “Guest Opinion: No New Laws Needed for Driver

Distractions.” Wireless Week 24 May 1999. 12 Mar. 2001

<http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/May99/gopn524.htm>.

Kilgannon, Corey. “Road Warriors with Laptops.” New York Times

15 Aug. 2000: A23.

Redelmeier, Donald A., and Robert J. Tibshirani. “Association

between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle

Collisions.” New England Journal of Medicine 336 (1997):

453-58.

Sundeen, Matt. “Cell Phones and Highway Safety: 2000 State

Legislative Update.” National Conference of State Legis-

latures. Dec. 2000. 9 pp. 11 Mar. 2001 <www.ncsl.org/

programs/esnr/cellphone.pdf>.

Heading is centered.

List is alphabetizedby authors’ lastnames (or by title,if a work has no author).

First line of eachentry is at left margin; next linesare indented 1⁄2'' (or five spaces).

Double-spacing isused throughout.

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