Learn and Memorize MLA Formatting
While there are more links and handouts available at the Essay Writing Website, the
links below will get you started on Understanding How to Use Formatting
in your writing.
It is important to know how to use MLA—if that is your
required formatting style—so that you are properly formatting the steps of the
writing process as your move through them, and so that you are not having to do
work twice by incorrectly formatting sources during the research
and prewriting
phases, only to have to completely revamp these sources in the drafting
stage.
The links below
are from the Purdue Online
Writing Center (OWL) and they will get you started on the basics of MLA
formatting. However, you MUST go through
your assigned class textbook to see what the ‘general’ standard is for MLA
formatting. While in the end, you
instructor’s preferences are what matter for your grade, the textbook and the
links below are a good start.
The reason your instructor’s preferences are the final ‘say’ on
the matter is not just because he or she awards you points for the writing
format in your paper but due to your instructor being more in-tune with the
current conventions of writing at your institution, in the English field, and
textbooks are ‘general’ information, while your instructor is full of ‘specific’
instruction.
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