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MLA Style: Basics

This guide is meant to be a brief introduction to MLA and to provide general formatting and citation guidelines for this manual of style.

Formatting a Paper in MLA Style


Formatting Specifications

The MLA Style Center website provides examples on how to format a paper in MLA style. Their page, Formatting a Research Paper, explains how to format margins, text, headers and footers, page numbers, works cited, etc.  Please consult the website and ask your instructor to see how you should format your paper.

 


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