MLAFORMATTING YOUR PAPER

YOUR PAPER SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:

MLA IN MICROSOFT WORD Page Layout / Page Setup

1” margins all the way around Double click on Header (top 1” of page) or Insert Header

(or select View > Header) Last name Menu > Page Number > Current position > Plain number Align right

No extra spaces between lines In Word 2007/10 – Paragraph > Spacing > After > 0 pt

On Works Cited, hanging indents on second and subsequent lines of an entry Select the Works Cited page Paragraph > Special > Hanging

TABLES AND FIGURES In MLA (and APA), when you have

a picture, table, graph, or anything that’s not text in a graf, you have to label it with a caption and refer to it in your text by that caption. For example, in figure 1, you can see the characters of South Park.

Graphs, pictures, photos, images, cartoons, logos are always “figures”

Tables are always “tables” Figure 1. South Park

TABLES AND FIGURES The “caption” function in Word is a piece of junk so

never use it unless you are editing a professional publication and plan on using auto table of contents features

The “best” way to do it is to Insert a text box, then insert your table or figure into the text box. You can then add the caption under the image, then move the textbox around the page and the caption will remain with the image.

WORKS CITED

Works Cited

Smith, John. “Good writing makes me laugh.” WRIT 1122

Rhetoric and Academic Writing. 18 June 2014. Web.

Jones, Susan. Good writing is error free. YouTube. 27 August

2008. Web. 16 June 2014.