MLA Laptop Lesson

Go to the web site listed below to answer the questions on this handout. You will want to bookmark the site on the ibooks, and you should also make note of the site for your own future use. This is absolutely the most helpful and comprehensive tool for writing that I have ever seen. Thanks, Purdue!

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html


1. What are the correct margins for a paper?
2. Do you include a title page for your paper?
3. What information is at the top left corner of the first page?
4. Is the title of your own paper underlined?
5. What words will be at the top of your Works Cited page?
6. Are they underlined?
7. Does the author’s name always have to appear in the parentheses when you use parenthetical citation?
8. Explain the rules for deciding whether the author’s name will be in the parentheses.
9. When you use direct quotations in a paper, are the parentheses for the citation inside the quotation marks?
10. What about the period at the end of a sentence, or a comma? Where are they – before or after the parentheses?
11. When is a quotation indented?
12. Do you use quotation marks for indented quotations?
13. Are indented quotations single- or double-spaced?
14. Are entries on the Works Cited page single- or double-spaced between entries? Within entries?
15. How are the entries on the WC page arranged?
16. Are book/selection titles on the WC page underlined, italicized, or put in quotations?
17. How is an author’s name recorded?
18. On your own paper, create Works Cited entries for your edition of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. You will want to scroll down the page to see what information you need, and the correct format.

When you are finished with these questions and your two WC entries, go to the Diana Hacker web site.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html


This part of the site is specific to writing about the humanities, including literature.
Click on Manuscript Format

1. Where does Hacker tell you to put the page number?
2. What other information should be with the page number?
3. What are the margins?

Go to MLA in-text documentation.

1. What is the best way to indicate the author of a quote?
2. What is an alternate method?
3. How do you attribute an unknown author’s work?
4. How do you typically cite a work from an anthology?