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MLA Style Essay in Word by David Taylor

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In-depth tutorial on setting up your MLA style paper in MicroSoft Office Word 2007

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how to set up document according to the 7th edition of MLA go first up to the page layout tab click on it and then click on the margin launcher arrow in the big drop down menu that you see click on normal to place a one-inch margin on all sides top left and right you're going to choose what MLA calls in easily readable font Times New Roman Arial calibri stuff like that do that go up to the font launcher Arrow watch that dialog box and then in that big dialog box choose your font first then choose your font style make sure it is regular then choose your font size 11 or 12 now close that box and the next thing you're going to do in MLA is be sure to turn off automatic hyphenation to do that go up to the page layout tab again time click on the hyphenation launcher arrow and then in that drop down box choose none close that box and you've taken off that automatic hyphenation now you're going to set up your MLA header head means the top of the page in this isn't the thing that's going to be repeated on each top of each topical first up to the insert tab click on the insert Tab and then come over and click the header launcher Arrow then in the draw tell me you that you see you're going to choose blank now what's that close what you want to do is to move your cursor over far right side of the page until it is directly in line with the one-inch margin that means one inch from the top and one inch from the right side now what you want to do is to type in your last name hit the spacebar one time now go back up to that answer cab again and this time come over and click on the number launcher Arrow now you're going to select your number style in what's going to be current position and now you see that Heather got your name Space page number and word is going to automatically number all of your pages in sequence with that header of your last name now to exit from the header area if you want to do is to double click either on the word header or you can double-click anywhere in the body of the document now what you do is go to the line spacing tool click on that and then in the drop-down menu be sure to select 2.0 or doubles in MLA the entire document is double spaced there is nothing else but double spacing in your MLA document no extra lines between play of the element after you have set that double spacing what you want to do is go to the alignment tool bar and click Left Alive are you ready to type in the info block on your MLA paper you begin first by typing in your name hit enter one time cuz you're dumb space now you're going to type in your teacher's name it entered gives you double space then you're going to type in the name of the course all the course information add your teacher has asked you to supply usually the name and number of the core sometimes the section and then hit enter and in the last thing you're going to type in is enter one more time to give yourself another doubles play space in this time go up to the alignment tool bar and Fleck alignment now your cursor is exactly in the center of the page and you're ready to type in the full title of your paper if that tie that's two parts be sure to separate the two parts with a colon a couple other tips about your title whenever you type it in you sure to use title capitalization what that means is you capitalize every word accept article coordinating conjunction but in yet Fort Worden or so and preposition but we're title capitalization always capitalize the first word and the last word of a title no matter what they are a couple more tips about your title that you see here be sure not to do anything else to it don't underline don't bowl face it don't put it in quotes don't put it in all caps and if you're going to italicize anything italicize only the word or words that you would also italicize in the body of your paper and other words that some kind of title of a work or some other kind of proper noun that you would italicize anywhere including your title the next thing we want to do after you have typed that title in you want to hit enter to give yourself a double spaced go back up to that text alignment tool bar in touch on left-aligned that your cursor is all the way over to the left and you're ready to begin typing in the body of your paper your first paragraph of course and all your paragraphs and MLA have to be indented 1/2 inch you have two ways oven sing the first line of a paragraph you can either hit the Tab Key one time that gives you a half face because a half inch tab is the default in Microsoft there's another way of setting your first line indent you can go up to the first line indent triangle which is all the way up at the top up above your paper left click on that triangle and then drag it over to the half inch Mark and that will also give you a half inch indention for your first paragraph you got that intentions that just go ahead and type in the body of your paper there remember whenever you're using a computer word processor it is not necessary enter at the end of a line you only hit enter whenever you have reached the end of a paragraph and you want to start a I want you get to the end of the paragraph you hit enter and boom you're going to start a

You'll see that your line should automatically indent that happen cuz you said it first then you begin typing your second paragraph your third paragraph excetera along the way if you have a quote that is longer than four lines you're going to have to set that quotation off by itself into its own block what you do is to First enter to create a new line then you set off you put it in that five or more line quotation right there starting on that new first line and then highlight set entire block and then just move that entire block over using your your indent tool of it up at the top your move it to the right in this case and then tool and that's how you handle a block quotations another couple things about block quotations since you're using the block format quotation marks are not necessary for this block quotation and do not indent the first line of a block quotation pretend that you typed in the body of your paper you're finished now the next thing you want to do to go back up there to that insert Tab and this time so let page break boom you're on a new page because your work cited the last page of your paper must start on a new page go up to the text alignment or toolbar click on Center make sure your curse is right in the center and type in the words works cited in the will the page again don't don't both face those words don't italicize them don't underline them it's simply playing Roman text works cited hit enter one time cuz you're double space go back up to the text alignment toolbar this time click on left alignment now your curse is all the way over to the and all you have to do now is start typing in the text of each Source type it in again without hitting enter or return typing all the information let Ward rapping conduct itself now for any line that must have hanging indention in all lines after the first one four traffic citation like a work cited page all lines after the first one must be indented 1/2 inch to the right what you want to do is to highlight the Pro-Line that should be indented now go up to the hanging indention triangle didn't know there was one I put the word the bottom triangle up there it's called hanging indention triangle left click on it and drag it across half inch and that gives you your half inch hanging indention now hit enter double space continue typing in all of your sources be sure that there's nothing more than double space between each line of the source each Source itself another thing to keep in mind when you're typing in your sources you must follow the MLA format for each Source type ArcLight that you can find those Source format beginning on page 123 of the MLA handbook and then also I'm going to be making a video on those different most frequently used Source time and you can consult that video as well so there you go good luck on your MLA paper