MLA Formatting Made Easy 021405 ENG 234

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MLA Formatting Made Easy02/14/05ENG 234

• Jason Wozniak
• Jonathan Manbeck
• Gene Dowell

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Presentation Overview

• Discuss our documentation
• Open Microsoft Word
• Opening a Document
• Setting Margins, Fonts, Font Size Font Format
• Formatting a Title Page
• Creating Headers and Footers
• Setting Paragraph Spacing
• Formatting a Block Quote

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Starting Microsoft Word

• Double Click on the Microsoft Word icon on the
  desktop.
• If there is no icon
• Click on the Start Menu
• Go to all programs
• Click on Microsoft Office
• Click on Microsoft Office Word 2003

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Open an Existing Document

• If document hasnt been started then go to next
  page
• Go to File, Open
• Locate your document
• Click on Open to open the document

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Set Margins

• Go to File, Page Setup
• In the top part of the box you can set the
  margins.
• Make sure the top and bottom margins are set to
  1.
• Set the right and left margins to 1 also.
• Hit OK

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Choose Font, Font Style, and Size

• Go to Format, Font
• Font
• Times New Roman
• Font Style
• Regular
• Size
• 12
• Then hit OK

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Start a Title Page

• Starting at the beginning of the paper hit the
  enter button 20 times.
• Click the center justify button on the toolbar.
• Type the title of your paper in all capital
  letters. Then hit enter.
• Hit enter 20 more times.
• Click the right justify button on the toolbar.

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Start a Title Page

• Type your name, press enter
• Type your instructors name, press enter
• Type the name of the course you are doing this
  paper for, press enter.
• Type the date

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Creating a Header and Footer

• Choose View from the menu bar.
• Select Header and Footer
• Click in the dotted box area labeled Header
• Click the Right justification button. (if you
  need assistance with this see Justifying Text
  portion of this documentation)
• Type your last name with a space after it.
• Select the page number button on the floating
  toolbar. (see screenshot)

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Setting the Paragraph Spacing

• Select entire body of your paper by clicking the
  left mouse button and dragging from the beginning
  of the body of your text to the end of your text.
  Be sure to stay in the left hand margin of your
  paper and drag straight down.
• Once you have selected your text. Right click
  your mouse button in the blackened area of your
  text.
• Screenshot of dialog box.

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Setting the Paragraph Spacing

• Choose the Paragraph option
• Under the Indents and Spacing find the drop
  down box underneath the text that says, Line
  Spacing
• Select Double from the drop down box. (see
  screenshot)

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Block Quotation Formatting

• Highlight any quote that is 4 lines or longer.
• Caution Make sure that it is the only text that
  you have highlighted.

• Drag the arrow keys on the ruler bar at the top
  of the document to the right 1. (See diagram)

Source http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/res
earch/r_mla.html
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Block Quotation Formatting