Reports MLA Style

MLA Reports – General Guidelines Should be printed on standard, white 8.5 x 11 inch paper Double space the text Font Style should be legible Font Size is 12 Margins – Left Right Top Bottom all 1 inch

MLA Reports –General Guidelines The first line of each paragraph should be indented – Tab once Create a header that numbers all pages consecutively in the upper right-hand corner One half inch from the top Right aligned

MLA reports – First page In the upper left hand corner list: Your Name Instructors Name The Course (Computer Technology) Date (Spell Out Ex March 11, 2015) Double Space All Text

Mla-reports – first page Double Space after the heading Center the Title Use Title Case (All the Important Words are Capitalized) Use quotation marks and/or italics when referring to other works in your title, just as you would in your text Double Space between the title and the first line of the text.

Mla reports first page Create a header in the upper right hand corner that includes: Your Last Name followed by a space with a page number Right Aligned Example: Pitcher 1

Mla reports – section headings Example: 1. Soil Conservation 1.1 Erosion 1.2 Terracing 2. Water Conservation 3. Energy Conservation

Mla reports – long quotations For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line –with the entire quote indented one inch from the left margin. Maintain Double Spacing Parenthetical Citations should come after the closing punctuation mark. (citation would go here)

Mla report – Work cited On a new page (CTRL + Enter creates a hard page break) Start 1 inch down the key the title Under Line Spacing Select DS and Hanging Indent Works Cited should be in Alphabetical Order