English II HonorsMLA FORMAT

“MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.”English literatureHistory

Other formats:- APA – social sciences, psychology, education, etc.- Chicago Style – book authors, commercial writers

WHO USES MLA?

8 ½” x 11” paper

Margins – 1” on each side

No cover pageFont – Times

New Roman 12pt Double-spaced½” indentation

for new paragraphs

PAGE FORMAT

Page numberingName, teacher/professor, class name, due dateTitle

HEADING

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.” J.K. Rowling, Der Spiegel, 2012. Try to sound natural while including all information Which of the following sentences are incorrect?

J.K. Rowling says in her interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, “Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be,” (2012).

J.K. Rowling: “Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be,” said author J.K. Rowling in her 2012 interview with German magazine Der Spiegel.

SHORT QUOTATIONS

When using a quote that surpasses four lines, you must use block quotes. “Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . Author J.K. Rowling said:

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me, (Harvard commencement speech, 2008).

LONG QUOTATIONS

Separate page“Works Cited” center justified, regular fontList sources alphabetically by author last nameRefer to Purdue Owl to see what kind of citation

formatting is most appropriate.

WORKS CITED

Purdue Owl https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/Easy bib http://www.easybib.com/

USEFUL SOURCES