MLA Format

Students sang "Lord of My Life" for devotions.

Mr. Stone instructed students on how to format their flash fiction story in the Modern Language Association (MLA) format.

Students used classroom computers to practice the formatting.

Mr. Stone reviewed the following features:

Page margins: one inch on all sides

Font: 12 point legible font whose regular and italic forms are clearly distinctive, e.g. Times New Roman

Heading: student first and last name (first line), teacher title and first and last name (second line), course name (third line), date in international date format (fourth line)

Title: Capitalize first letter of first word and all of the following nouns and verbs. The title should be kept in the same regular 12 pt font as the rest of the paper. It should not be bolded, italicized, underlined, or placed in quotation marks.

Indentations: The text at the beginning of each new paragraph should be indented to a half-inch tab.

Spacing: The entire document should be double-spaced. Be careful to make sure that the spacing after paragraphs is set for zero. No additional space should occur before or after a paragraph. The entire document should be double-spaced.

Header: A plain header should appear at the top of each page of the paper. The page number should be inserted in the top right-hand position just before a right-justified tab. The student's last name should appear just to the left of the page number with one space separating the student's last name and the page number.


Homework: Revise your flash fiction story so it follows MLA format. (If you have not yet revised your rough draft to be sure it includes direct dialogue, be sure it does.) Bring a fresh printout of your story to class.