Submitting Your Essay The Final Draft MLA Format (Modern Language Association)

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Submitting Your EssayThe Final DraftMLA
Format(Modern Language Association)
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M A R G I N S
Top 1 inch Left Right 1 inch
1 inch Bottom 1 inch

• Before you begin typing, format your margins.
• Margins should measure one inch on the top,
  bottom, left, and right.

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Font Type and Size

• SIZE 12 font
• TYPE
• New Times Roman
• Courier New

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Create a Header
Williams 1

• Click on View (Menu Bar)
• Header and Footer
• Align Right
• Type Last Name
• Insert Page Number (Header and Footer Toolbar)
• Close

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Header Instructions

• Tool Bar Double Click View
• Double Click Header
• Double Click Align Right
• Enter Last Name
• Tool Bar Double Click Insert
• Double Click Page Numbers
• Scroll and Click Top of Page (Header)
• Scroll and Click Right
• Check box Show number on first page
• Click OK

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H E A D I N G
Williams 1 Marchell Williams Ms.
Valentine English 1-2 10 May 2007

• Top left corner
• (Use left alignment button)
• First/Last Name
• Teachers Name
• Subject
• Date (day, month, year)

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T I T L E of E S S A Y

Williams 1 Marchell Williams Ms.
Valentine English 1-2 10 May 2007 To Kill a
Mockingbird

• Center (Use center alignment button)
• Upper and Lower Case
• (Capital and small letters)

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P A R A G R A P H S
Williams 1 Marchell Williams Ms.
Valentine English 1-2 10 May 2007
To Kill a Mockingbird
Your first paragraph should be your introduction
and thesis statement. The next 3 paragraphs will
be your body paragraphs. Each body paragraph
should have a topic sentence and supporting
detail. Indent the first line of each
new paragraph. Use your tab key to indent
not your space bar. That makes it a
lot easier.

• Indent first line of each paragraph.
• Topic sentence and supporting detail

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Double Space
Williams 1 Marchell Williams Ms.
Valentine English 1-2 10 May 2007 To Kill
a Mockingbird Your first paragraph
should be your introduction and thesis
statement. The next 3 paragraphs will be your
body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should
have a topic sentence and supporting detail.
Indent the first line of each new paragraph.
Use your tab key to indent not your space
bar. That makes it a lot easier.

• Highlight entire document
• Click on Format (Menu Bar)
• Paragraphs
• Tab Indents and Spacing
• Line Spacing
• Double
• Click ok