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1- how do you format the first page of your paper ?

1. Paper

Use clean, good quality 8 1/2" x 11" white paper, one side only.

2. Margins

Leave margins of your essay 1" (2.5 cm) at the top, bottom, left and right sides of each and every page. 1" is about 10 typed spaces.  Exception is made for page numbers which are placed 1/2" (1.25 cm) from the top upper-right hand corner, flushed to the right margin.

3. Title Page

A title page is not essential for a research paper unless specifically requested by your teacher. The MLA Handbook provides a general guideline on writing a research paper and documenting sources. In case of conflict, you should always follow guidelines set down by your teacher.
If you don't have a title page, you may begin 1" from the top of the first page of your essay and start typing your name flush against the left margin. Then under your name, on separate lines, double-spaced, and flush against the left margin, type your teacher's name, your course code, and the date.
If your teacher prefers that the first page of your essay not be numbered, you will begin numbering with page 2.
Double-space after the date. On a new line, center the title of your essay. If you have a long title, double-space between lines of the title.
Example:

2- how do you use an in text citation ?

1

Locate your work cited (the sources you used on your paper). The basic in-text citation is done by placing the author's last name and page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence like this: (Rollins 45).

2

Place an "and" or a comma in between the last names of a work written by two or more authors. An example of this would be (Rollins and Williams 234) or (Rollins, Williams, and Thomas 265).

3

Identify whether or not a particular author has two or more different works in your source list. If so, add the underlined book titled after the author's name and before the page number. Underline the word "Amazonia" in this example: (Rollins, Amazonia 200).

4

Achieve an in-text citation of two or more sources in a single reference by separating the author's name by a semicolon. An example of this would be: (Rollins 200; Williams 157).

5

Cite an anonymous source by placing the title of the anonymous work in quotations. An example of the proper way to do this is as follows: ("Little River" 23).

6

Cite a multi-volume source by placing the volume number followed by a colon and then the page number. The way this source is cited is: (4: 12-13).

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3- how do you format along quote ?

Most quotes are worked smoothly into a paragraph, but there is an exception. If a quote takes up more than four full lines of typed text in your document, it is formatted differently. First, the entire quote is indented one inch (or ten spaces if using a typewriter) while the right margin remains the same. The quotation is still double-spaced just like everything else in the paper. If your long quote includes more than one paragraph, indent each paragraph an additional quarter-inch, or three spaces. Also, this indented format tells your reader it is a direct quotation, so no quotation marks are used. And finally, the parenthetical citation is placed two spaces after the period at the end of the quotation. More often than not, the quote is introduced with a colon. Here is an example:

One of the most famous opening paragraphs in English literature is the catalogue of paradoxes with which  Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities: The quote is double spaced and indented 1" on the left from the rest of the body of the paper.  The right margin remains the same, and the in text citation goes outside the period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (1).

When using a modern word processor like Microsoft Word, the easiest way to format a long quote is as follows:
After typing your paper, if the quote is longer than four typed lines, isolate it from the rest of the text by placing the cursor at the beginning of the quote and pressing the Enter key to start it on a new line. Position the cursor at the end of the quote and press Enter to separate the quote completely from the rest of the text.
Now that the quote is separated from the body of the paper, select (highlight) the quote. Now drag the left margin tab over one inch to the right. The word processor will re-format the highlighted text to fit the new margin, without affecting the margins of the rest of the paper.
Be sure to erase the quote marks, and be sure the in text citing information is outside the period. Any words quoted within the inset are set off by regular quotation marks.

4- how do you format a work citied page ?

Format the Works Cited page

On (a) separate page(s) at the end of your paper, list alphabetically by author every work cited in your paper, using the basic forms illustrated on the previous pages.

List only those sources you actually cited in your paper.

As illustrated on the previous pages, the rule for referring to material in an indirect or secondhand source--that is, for citing when you have not seen the original but have obtained the information from another document that cited the original source--is to list the source your have seen, not the original.

Title	Title the page Works Cited (not Bibliography), at the top of a new page, centered.
Spacing	All entries should be double-spaced, unless your assignment instructs you otherwise.
Indentation	Begin an entry at the margin; indent the remaining lines five spaces.
Source Titles	Underline or italicize titles of books, periodicals, films, and television series (but not individual episodes).
Electronic sources	As explained in the sixth edition of the MLA Handbook, a citation for an electronic publication typically has more parts than a citation for a print publication does. For an electronic source, provide five types of information (as available): (1) Author's name (2) Title (3) Information about print publication (4) Information about electronic publication (5) Information about access 5- hoq do you list a book in your work citied page ?