Adapted from Mrs. Catherine Wishart

MLA Overview:General Format and Heading

General Format• Paper must be typed on standard white

paper. • Text of paper must be double-spaced,

including the heading. • Margins are set at 1 inch for left, right, top,

and bottom (older versions of Microsoft Word will set the margins at 1.25 inches for left and right – go in and reset manually).

• There must be a header on the right side that has the writer’s last name and the page number.

Heading and TitleLast Name 1

Stephen Drew

Mrs. Lee

9th Grade Literature

30 May 2016

Edgar Allen Poe’s Manipulations in “The Cask of Amontillado”

and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Edgar Allen Poe is renowned for his spooky tales and haunting plotlines. One of

the reasons that his stories work so well is the manner in which Poe layers

manipulation into his tales. Throughout his works, including “The Cask of

Note: header to the rightThis is the correct order for informationThe title of published stories are in quotation marks, but not the title of the paper

MLA Overview:Making a Works Cited Entry

Works Cited• Begins on a separate page and is labeled Words Cited (no

italics or quotation marks). • Double space, but do not skip spaces between entries. • Indent the second and subsequent lines five spaces. • List page numbers only when needed. • Determine the Medium of Publication. Most will be print or

web sources. Basic Format: Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of

Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Work from an Anthology: Last name, First name. “Title of Story.” Title of Anthology. Ed. Editor’s Name. Place of Publication, Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium.

Work from a web source: Last name, First name. “Title of Source”. Name of Institution publishing the source. Date source was published. Web. Date you viewed source on the web.

Basic FormatsBook:Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of

Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Anthology:Last name, First name. “Title of Story.” Title of

Anthology. Ed. Editor’s Name. Place of Publication, Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium.

WebsiteLast name, First name. “Title of Source”. Name of

Institution publishing the source. Date source was published. Medium (Web). Date you viewed source on the web.

Works Cited• Begins on a separate page and is labeled Words Cited (no

italics or quotation marks). • Double space, but do not skip spaces between entries. • Indent the second and subsequent lines five spaces. • List page numbers only when needed. • Determine the Medium of Publication. Most will be print or

web sources. Basic Format: Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of

Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Work from an Anthology: Last name, First name. “Title of Story.” Title of Anthology. Ed. Editor’s Name. Place of Publication, Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium.

Work from a web source: Last name, First name. Title of Source. Name of Institution publishing the source. Date source was published. Web. Date you viewed source on the web.

Assistance with Works CitedA site that is helpful in building a Works

Cited page is “Easybib.” Use of this site is not considered

plagiarism; it is considered an excellent use of resources available in the information age.

Works Cited SampleAristotle. Poetics. Ed. S. H. Butcher. The

Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sept. 2007. Web. 23 Nov. 2011.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.

Wysocki. Anne Frances. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

CP Practice• Write out these sources correctly: • An anthology named Literature:

Approaches to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. The editor is Robert DiYanni. It is published by McGraw Hill in 2008. The story you have cited is “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence, who was born in 1885 and died in 1930. The pages the story appear on are from page 100 to 110.

Group Practice• Get with your collaborative partner x 2 (A Group

of Four): • Choose a person to come up and select a source.• Determine the type of source based on the

option given in your packet, and then fill in the information. • Then, write out the works cited entry!

• After 7 minutes, you will pass your source and complete a different one.

• I will walk around and observe your group and grade your accuracy and participation.

MLA Overview:Using In-Text Citations

In-Text CitationsMLA uses parenthetical citation

(information about the source inside parentheses).

Work the citation into a sentence that contains some of your own words. Quotations should be integrated, not just dropped into the paper.

Example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263). Note that the period is inserted after the last

parenthesis, not after the quotation mark.

Methods of Parenthetical Citation• The following are examples from Purdue

OWL: MLA Format: • According to some, dreams express

“profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

• According to Foulkes’s study, dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (184).

• Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184)?

Quotes of More than Four LinesYou may use only 1 or 2 such quotes in your

research paper. The paper should be mainly your thoughts.

Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him when she says:

They entirely refused to have in bed with them, or even in their room, and

I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone in the morrow.

By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept into Mr. Earnshaw’s door, and there he found it on his quitting chamber.

Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in

recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)

Note placement of period with quote, lack of quotation marks, and lack of punctuation after the parenthesis.

Source Used for This PowerPointThe Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab,

2010. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.