MLA for Dummies



Here is a sample of the first page of a paper in MLA style from Purdue Online Writing Lab!!!!!

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Image Caption: The First Page of an MLA Paper

In-Text Citations

▪ Remember to use in text citations for ALL information you use in your paper. Below you will see how your in-text citations correspond to your works cited. Go to for more guidelines.

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Works Cited

Batshaw, Mark L. Children with Disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co, 1997.

"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. . Sun-Times News Group, 2 June

2006. Web. 24 May 2009.

. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

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Example of In-text Citation to Works Cited:

include title and author in signal phrase

In Children with Disabilities, Mark Batshaw, a child psychologist and

educator, writes, “The effects of long-term smoking are not always

physical” (13).

OR

Throughout the book Children with Disabilities, Mark Batshaw discusses the “long-term effects of smoking.”

OR use parenthetical citation

“The effects of long-term smoking are not always

physical” (Batshaw 13).

Works Cited

Batshaw, Mark L. Children with Disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H.

Brookes Publishing Co, 1997.

Lead in to direct quotations with an introductory statement—a signal phrase.

The period goes inside the quotation marks if there is not a parenthetical.

A period goes at the end of the citation when there is a parenthetical.

Works cited in correct format – Remember to use a hanging indent when an entry takes two lines and double space entire page.

Basic parenthetical citation:

(author page number)

Your last name and page number should be in the upper right hand corner of each page.

Heading should go in upper left hand corner: your first and last name, your teacher’s name, the course title, and the date using MLA format.

An appropriate and, possibly, memorable title should be centered.

Note: The first item in works cited entry should always be used in in-text citation.

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