Johnson 1 Tom Johnson Professor Smith Comp 101 06 February 2010 Title: Subtitle This is where you begin

typing essay. Note that the margins are one inch all around. Double-check margins (File, Page Setup) because Word does not always default to one-inch margins all around. Note the proper MLA heading: your name, my name, the course, and the date that the paper is due. Note that the date goes before the month, the month is spelled out, and no commas separate the date from the month or the month from the year. The entire document is double-spaced, heading included. There are no random spaces between the heading and the title or between the title and the document. There are also no random spaces between paragraphs. The text is Times New Roman, 12 point font, and the document is left-aligned. The title and subtitle are separated by a colon. The title is not underlined, italicized, in bold, or all caps. To insert the proper MLA header that should appear on every page, including the first page, go to View, Header and Footer. Right-align the text and type in your last name followed by a space. Click on Insert Page Number, and close the menu. Note that no comma separates your last name from the page number. Your last name and page number will automatically appear on each page, including the Annotated Bibliography or Works Cited page. The Works Cited or Annotated Bibliography page is double-spaced. The sources should be listed according to MLA style guidelines. The sources are alphabetized by authors last name. Note that all but the first line of each entry are indented 0.5 inches. Included on the last page of this

Johnson 2 document is an example Annotated Bibliography. Book titles and journal names should be italicized. MLA style calls for internal citations. When you use direct quotations or ideas from a source, you must cite the source. For example, according to Joseph Gibaldi, editor of the fifth edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, In MLA documentation style, you acknowledge your sources by keying brief parenthetical citations in your text to an alphabetical list of works that appears at the end of the paper (114). Note that the quotation marks are placed around the text taken from the source and that there is a space between the end quotation mark and the open parenthesis. I provided the page number only (instead of both authors last name and page number) because I used the authors name in the text. If I had not, the proper citation would be (Gibaldi 114). Note that the period goes after the close parenthesis. Every time that you cite a source, you must provide the internal citation. Do not assume that your reader will assume that it is the same author as the previous citation. Sometimes, although not often, you will want to include a chunk of text from a source. According to MLA style guidelines, you must block the text (which means that you indent the text 1 inch) when you take 4 or more lines from a source. It will look like this: Nearly all research builds on previous research. Researchers commonly begin a project by studying past work in the area and deriving relevant information and ideas from their predecessors. This process is largely responsible for the continual expansion of human knowledge. In presenting their work, researchers generously acknowledge their debts to predecessors by carefully documenting each source, so that earlier contributions receive appropriate credit. (Gibaldi 114)

Johnson 3 Note that the entire passage is indented and double-spaced. Also note the absence of quotation marksit is understood that the passage is directly quoted when it is blocked off. Note that the period goes with the text and is not placed after the internal citation. All of the sources that you cite in your text should be listed on your Annotated Bibliography page. Here are a few tips when quoting lines from poems. When you quote part or all of a single line of verse, put it in quotation marks within your text. For example, Bradstreet frames the poem with a sense of mortality: All things within this fading world hath end (1). The 1 refers to the line of the poem, not the page number. You also incorporate two or three lines in this way, using a slash with a space on each side ( / ) to separate them. For example, reflecting on the incident in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, Of all the things that happened there / Thats all that I remember (11-12). Verse quotations of more than three lines should begin on a new line. Unless the quotation involves unusual spacing, indent each line one inch (ten spaces - tab twice) from the left margin and double-space between lines, adding no quotation marks that do not appear in the original. A parenthetical reference for a verse quotation set off from the text follows the last line of the quotation (as in quotations of prose). For example, Elizabeth Bishops In the Waiting Room is rich in evocative detail: It was winter. It got dark early. The waiting room was full of grown-up people, arctics and overcoats, lamps and magazines. (6-10)

Johnson 4 If the spatial arrangement of the original lines, including indentation and spacing within and between them, is unusual, reproduce it as accurately as possible. When a verse quotation begins in the middle of a line, the partial line should be positioned where it is in the original and not shifted to the left margin. For example, in a poem on Thomas Hardy (T. H.), Molly Holden recalls her encounter with a young dog fox one morning: I remember he glanced at me in just that way, independent and unabashed, the handsome sidelong look that went round and about but never directly met my eyes, for that would betray his soul. He was not being sly, only careful. (43-48)

Johnson 5 Annotated Bibliography Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. 1958. New York: Vintage, 1997. Print. Authors last name, first name. Title of book. Year of original publication. City: Publisher, Year. Print. Primary source so no need to annotate. Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. Imagined Edens and Lacans Lost Object: The Wilderness and Subjectivity in Faulkners Go Down, Moses. The Mississippi Quarterly 50.3 (1997): 47792. Galegroup. Web. 6 Nov. 2005. Critics last name, first name. Title of article. Journal Volume.Number (Year): Page numbers. Title of database. Web. Date of access. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Summarize article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph. Evaluate article in this paragraph.