MLA Format for Academic Paragraphs

Class,

For your assignments, please follow the MLA guidelines. You will organize your papers to similar to the following example. In the upper left corner of your paper please put the following:



Name
Instructor's Name
Class
Date

Center the Title

       Indent your paragraph and begin writing. Your first sentence makes your claim. The second sentence defines that claim. The third sentence gives textual evidence and "embeds the quotation" into the sentence rather than just dropping it there. Your fourth sentence will explain how that example fits with your claim. You can use more than one example, but always follow that example with another explanation. Finally, you will wrap up your paragraph with a conclusion that restates, in new terms, your original claim. 

*All writing is to be done in Times New Roman 12pt, including the title. Keep 1" margins all around the page. I will teach you citations when we move onto our novel next month. For now, this will be a great start to academic format and writing. See you Tuesday!

* Short Stories are in quotations, like poems and names of songs. "Harrison Bergeron," "Dulce Et Decorum Est,"  and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are appropriate ways of referencing them. Longer works, like novel titles or names of albums, are italicized. To Kill a Mockingbird or Nevermind are examples.