Formatting Your Paper

General MLA Format Tips:● Times New Roman 12 pt. Font, double spaced● Heading (Name, AP English Language and Composition, Block, Mrs. Garrison, Due Date)● Page Numbers (In Word: Insert→ Page Number → Top of Page→ Plain Number 3→

Make sure you change it to Times New Roman, 12 pt. font)● Don’t bold the title● Parenthetical Citations: (Author’s Last Name) OR (Name of Article)

○ For works written by multiple authors: (First Author’s Name et. al)

Sample Works Cited Page (Purdue Owl):Works Cited

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." The New York Times, 22 May

2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May

2016.

Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim.

rogerebert.com, 1 June 2006, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006.

Accessed 15 June 2016.

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics

of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology,

vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.

*Only include the website url if asked for it.

*If you do decide to use Easybib, you MUST check the information entered to make sure it

is correct. Easybib is great at collecting random information from the site you pasted in.

Creating a Visual:

1. In Word: Insert Tab→ Chart→ Choose a type of graph and enter in data

2. Make sure you add a description at the bottom of the graph that includes the source of the

information, when the data was collected, and the general trends/what it means.

3. Paste it into your grad paper after the paragraph where you refer to the data.

Toulmin Model:

1. Claim: What you’re trying to say in general.

2. Data: Evidence that you’re using to support your claim.

3. Warrant: Statement explaining the connection between your claim and data.

4. Backing: Additional information/reasoning used to support the warrant.

5. Counterclaim: What you’re opposition believes/is saying.

6. Rebuttal: Evidence that negates the opposition’s claims