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What an MLA Essay Should Look Like

. The first page of an MLA-style paper begins with a four-line list of information:

your name (you may provide your student number here as well) the name of the instructor the course name the date in day, month, year format

The header, consisting of the writer's family name and the page number, is ?" from the top edge of the paper. The information block begins 1" below the top edge. The title should be centered on a line of its own immediately following the above information. Capitalize the main words of the title, excluding only articles (other than those serving as the first word), prepositions, coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, but, for), and the particle to in infinitives (e.g., to sleep, to dream). Subtitles are introduced by colons (Joyce's Stephen Hero: Early Manuscript Corrections). The first paragraph of the paper begins on the next line, indented by ?".

Miriam Chang

Chang 1

Prof. A. Hernandez

English 2112, Modern British Novel

10 March 2016

Power, Panopticism, and Post Office Towers in Ian McEwan's Saturday

Outnumbered by the thug Baxter and his two henchmen, pinned against a metal door and

wounded by the blow Baxter lands on his sternum, Henry Perowne, the neurosurgeon who is the

protagonist of Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, carefully plans his options. "Just up the street is a

pub, the Jeremy Bentham," Perowne thinks. "But if it's open this early, the drinkers are all inside in

the warmth" (92). That Henry should first think of a pub named after the late-eighteen-century

philosopher rather than of the nearer Spearmint Rhino, a strip club, as a place of refuge, reflects

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Note that page numbers are in arabic numerals. The left, right, and bottom margins are 1"; the margin for the top of the page is 1", though the header falls within that.

At the end of the essay, you will need to provide a list of all works cited in the text. Begin on a fresh page, with the words "Works Cited" centered at the top of the page. The entries are arranged alphabetically by the first author's name. All entries have a hanging indent (Microsoft Word has a special feature for this accessed through the Paragraph dialogue box).

Here is what a works cited page should look like:

Works Cited

Chang 18

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage, 1995. Print.

Schofield, Philip. Utility and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham. New York;

Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Print.

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