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332 MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper 333 Checklist 27.2 Formatting the Title Page-MLA 27c Sample Research Paper-MLA MLA does not require a separate cover sheet or title page-instead, at the Nelson Rivera, a first-year student ar rhe University of South Carolina, wrore top of the first page list each of the following items on a separate line. All "Taking a Closer Look at [he Mororcycle Boom" in March 2005 while a sru- these items are double spaced. In particular, do not insert extra spaces dent in "English 101: Rhetoric and Composirion. " The assignment sheer for above or below the title. rhe paper asked s tudents to wrire a casual argument, rhar is, a paper rhat tries a. List your full name on the first lineofthefirst page,aligned to the left. to explain a phenomenon-in rhis case, rhe growing popularity of motorcy- cles. The paper appears here subsrantially as Rivera wro re ir , though wirh some b. List your instructor's name with appropriate title, aligned to the left. When uncertain about academic rank, use Mr. , Ms. , or Prof. Better, modificarions to highlighr specific features ofMLA style. It is accompanied by look up the title in a campus directory or simply ask your instructor. annorarions and checklisrs designed to help you ser up a paper correctly. c. List the course title, aligned to the left. Ch ecklist 27.1 Formatting the Paper-MLA d. List the date you submit the assignment, aligned to Use the following general settings in your word processor for an MLA the left. paper, but adjust them to match any special preferences set by your e. Give the title of your instructor. (Note: If using a typewriter or fixed-width font, you can insert paper, capitalized and cen- five spaces in place of each half-inch of indentation.) Subsequent checklists tered. Capitalize the first provide details for the title page, special items (quotations, tables, and fig- and last words of the title, ures), and the Works Cited page. and all words in between a. Use white, 8'h-by-"-inch paper. For a traditional academic assign- except articles (a, an, and ment , never use color or lined paper. Handwrite a paper only with an the), prepositions (including instructor's permission. to when part of an infinitive), b. Insert your last name and page number one-half inch from the top of and coordinating conjunc- every page, aligned with the right-hand margin. The best way to achieve tions . Do not end the title this is to insert a running page header. (See the View or Insert menus.) with a period, but use a c. Use the same readable font face throughout your paper. Avoid fonts question mark when appro- with too much decoration, since they can be hard on the eyes. Also be sure priate. Do not bold, under- to use a moderate text size, 10 to 12 points depending on the font face. line, italicize, or specially for- d. Double-space the entire document. This includes the Works Cited mat you r title except for page and title page. Use your word processor 's Format or Paragraph specific words and phrases menus to select line spacing. that generally require spe- cial formatting. e. Left-align the body of the paper and do not hyphenate words at the end of the line. You may need to turn off your word processor's auto- Takjng:t Clos!..'r Loo k;l t th e MOTOl'cy.:: k- Boom Nelson Ri ve ra M s. .• J.1IJ 11 En gli sh 101: RhclOri c and Co mposili on 25 M"ch 2005 Note: If your instructor does ask for a title page, ce nter the title of your paper and your name in the upper third of the paper. Center the course title, your instructor's matic hyphenation tool. f. Indent the first word of each paragraph one-half inch. Most word name, and the date on the lower third of the sheet, double-spacing each item. (See processors have a way to auto set an indent for the first line of paragraphs. sample above.)

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Checklist 272 Formatting the Title Page-MLA27c Sample Research Paper-MLA MLA does not require a separate cover sheet or title page-instead at the

Nelson Rivera a first-year student ar rhe University of South Carolina wrore top of the first page list each of the following items on a separate line All

Taking a Closer Look at [he Mororcycle Boom in March 2005 while a srushythese items are double spaced In particular do not insert extra spaces

dent in English 101 Rhetoric and Composirion The assignment sheer for above or below the title

rhe paper asked students to wrire a casual argument rhar is a paper rhat tries a List your full name on the first lineofthefirst pagealigned to the leftto explain a phenomenon-in rhis case rhe growing popularity of motorcyshy

cles The paper appears here subsrantially as Rivera wrore ir though wirh some b List your instructors name with appropriate title aligned to the left When uncertain about academic rank use Mr Ms or Prof Better modificarions to highlighr specific features ofMLA style It is accompanied by look up the title in a campus directory or simply ask your instructor annorarions and checklisrs designed to help you ser up a paper correctly

c List the course title aligned to the left Checklist 271 Formatting the Paper-MLA d List the date you submit

the assignment aligned to Use the following general settings in your word processor for an MLA the left paper but adjust them to match any special preferences set by your

e Give the title of yourinstructor (Note If using a typewriter or fixed-width font you can insert paper capitalized and censhyfive spaces in place of each half-inch of indentation) Subsequent checklists tered Capitalize the firstprovide details for the title page special items (quotations tables and figshyand last words of the titleures) and the Works Cited page and all words in between

a Use white 8h-by--inch paper For a traditional academic assignshyexcept articles (a an and

ment never use color or lined paper Handwrite a paper only with an the) prepositions (including

instructor s permission to when part of an infinitive)

b Insert your last name and page number one-half inch from the top of and coordinating conjuncshyevery page aligned with the right-hand margin The best way to achieve tions Do not end the title this is to insert a running page header (See the View or Insert menus) with a period but use a

c Use the same readable font face throughout your paper Avoid fonts question mark when approshywith too much decoration since they can be hard on the eyes Also be sure priate Do not bold undershyto use a moderate text size 10 to 12 points depending on the font face line italicize or specially forshy

d Double-space the entire document This includes the Works Cited mat you r title except for page and title page Use your word processor s Format or Paragraph specific words and phrases menus to select line spacing that generally require speshy

cial formatting e Left-align the body of the paper and do not hyphenate words at the end of the line You may need to turn off your word processors autoshy

Takjngt Closr Lookl t the MOTO lcy k- Boom

Nelson Ri ve ra

M s Mdi~bull J 1IJ 11

English 101 RhclO ri c and Co mposilion

25 Mch 2005

Note If your instructor does ask for a title page center the title of your paper and your name in the upper third of the paper Center the course title your instructors

matic hyphenation tool

f Indent the first word of each paragraph one-half inch Most word name and the date on the lower third of the sheet double-spacing each item (See processors have a way to auto set an indent for the first line of paragraphs sample above)

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Checklist 273 QuotationsTables and Figures-MLA

a Format quotations correctly MLA requires that you present long quoshytations-more than four lines-in block format Block quotations are not

enclosed by quotation marks The entire quotation is indented 1 inch from the left margin Use the same double spacing as the rest of the

document

b Label and number tables placing them as close as possible to related text Before the table provide the label Table an identifying number and a caption capitalized according to the standard rules for titles Double-space the table (assuming youre not using an image of a table as student writer Nelson Rivera does) citing the source (if you didnt create it yourself) in a caption at the bottom The caption should use the same 1-inch margin as the rest of the paper

c Label and number illustrations and other visual material Place the item as close as possible to the related text providing underneath the label Fig (or Figure)an identifying number and the title (or a descriptive label or caption) For more on figures and tables see Section 21 b-2

underscore or display fonts

Use a note to connect text and images

Label --~

~~o~~~~and caption for figures below the item USing Fig or Figure

I

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(enter he title and use same lont font size as in the paper no boldface

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Nelson Rivera -001------

Ms Melissa Jantz Double-space all

English OI Rhetoric and Composition elements on the ~------I title page No

25 March 2005 ~ special spacing

Taking a Closer Look at the Motorcycle Boom or enlarged or 12 inch enhanced fonts -In 1969 the film Easy Rider revolutionized the motorcycle

III world by creating the bad boy biker image that is familiar to most

people today (see fig I) Bikers were renegades counterculture

bull

Fig I Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper growling down the

highway in Easy Rider (1969) representing bikers as rebels

road warriors who according to scholars Jeremy Packer and Mary

K Coffey were violent heteronormative and (for the most part)

masculine as they may be (641) Though they werent typical

heroes Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper portrayed life on the road

as life on their own terms and after the release of this movie the

motorcycle industry experienced a 98 increase in sales between

1970 and 1980 This increase diminished however soon after it

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peaked It wasnt until 1992 that the industry experienced a rebirth

with increases in motorcycle sales not seen since the 1970s

(Annual) Today the industry has reached the one million mark ~Thissource in motorcycle sales Up from just 278000 motorcycles sold in 1992

does nOl u~e page these sales numbers represent an increase of over 270 as seen in numbers

Table I

label ----- Table I numberand

Estimated New Motorcycle Sales 1992-2004provide a caption for tables above 1200000

the item 000

800000

600000

2000 2002 zooc

ArnQI Mmocrli 5uIi

im 218000 1933-193i)OO 191A -8OIIooo 1 9J5- ~tlll 1998 33(1 000 1997-lS$ OOO 1898 - m OOO 1i99- 54 aooo OOO 71000II 850tJIJ()OOlt 936000 2003 - 996000 2OG4 - 1OflOOOO

List source Source 2003 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report Free Student infomlation Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2004 Web 16 Mar 2008 beneath the table

This trend has continued into what is now a twelfth

consecutive year of record-breaking motorcycle sales Unlike those

involved in the first motorcycle craze in the 1970s todays

motorcycle enthusiasts do not have a box office hit movie to fuel

their interest and they do not dream of giving up the social

This states the lhesi~ of the causal argument

Indent block shy

quote 1Inch from leftmiddot

~ t hand margin and doubleshyspace iL Omit ON around quote

I

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responsibilities of work and family in the vein of Easy Riders freeshy

living protagonists Instead this sales increase is likely due to

several interrelated social and economic causes especially

including the rise in expendable income now enjoyed by the Baby

Boom generation Generally speaking the counterculture biker

image appeals to this group of aging activists and the biker

lifestyle is now much more accessible to those with the social

responsibilities of work and family

Indeed the stereotyped image of the average biker has

I dramatically changed over the last 20 years Todays bikers are a

new breed No longer are they simply leather-clad beer-drinking

Hells Angels as described in 1966 by Hunter S Thompson

~[ J running fast and loud on the early morning freeway

low in the saddle nobody smiles jamming crazy through1inch

traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe

This ellipsis -J missing by inches t like Genghis Khan on an iron horse mar~ actually11 II appears in Thompsons original1

I The in-text_t i W note (omes afterthe

puthdegctualdion_ al een 0f

lH II abloltkquote

a monster steed [ Jlong hair in the wind beards and

bandanas flapping earrings armpits chain whips [ J

and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on

101 moves over nervous to let the formation pass like a

burst of dirty thunder (3) --------------7

Even though much of this rebellious style remains todays biker

lifestyle does not necessarily exclude the demands of a more

traditional lifestyle In facl many of todays bikers are law firm

partners accountants and doctors--a lifestyle still frowned upon

in the early 1980s when for example a cycle-riding metropolitan

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court judge from New Mexico admitted in the American Bar

Association fournal that people think youre crazy riding a

motorcycle period (Winter 527) Now however the biker you see

growling down the highway might even be your boss This change

in image has made the biker lifestyle seem more accessible to

professionals who might have otherwise felt too mainstream to

take part in a counterculture

Even cable TV networks now spotlight the biker world with

programs such as World Biker Build-off American Steel and ~ Italicize televIsion

American Choppers and so the bikes that once invoked images of sfrleslitles

greasy leathers and snarling gangs are now just as likely to turn

Fig 2 Biking goes mainstream with Paul TeutuL Sr and Paul

TeutuL Jr of American Chopper

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G5is a up in executives garages (Hopkins G5) This attention by the sectionpage

media has lured names such as Jay Leno Dennis Rodman andnumber in a newspaper Shaquille ONeal to join the biker lifestyle And the increase in

media coverage has in turn sparked the interest of a wider range

of Americans creating a greater market field and expanding the

buyer segments

Perhaps it is not that surprising then that women make up a

significant new addition to the motorcycle market In fact women

are the fastest-growing segment in the market and as Steve

Pilkington succinctly notes they are no longer taking a back seat

to men (9) According to the Motorcycle Industry CounciL female

ridership increased from 2 in 1985 to 10 in 2003 An article in

Bradlels -l Working Woman reports that ~loday lout of every II American

indicate that I d h I f 100 1960the I was motorcyc e owners IS a woman compare Wit out 0 III

originally a (Aronson 18) The overall increase in motorcycle sales can be capital letter

attributed in part to this increase in female riders Because many

women have experienced a growth in disposable income they can

now make motorcycle purchases on their own without the help of

their male partners The biker image now seems more accessible

and acceptable and women can more comfortably fit into this

lifestyle

This new gentler image is in large part created by a return to

the saddle by the Baby Boomers who had previously abandoned

their riding days in exchange for families and careers During the

last motorcycle boom the average rate of increase in motorcycle

sales matched that of the annual increase in the number of Baby

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Boom males reaching their 18th birthdays Ken Kurson who points

out these facts in Motorcycles for Grown-ups adds that 30 years

later much of this round of expansion comes from the fact that

Baby Boomers are rediscovering their love of motorcycles (112) In

the last 12 years the motorcycling lifestyle has attracted wealthier

and older owners both male and female and this is largely due to

the fact that the Baby Boom generation is now entering into a

stage of financial stability with no dependents The results of a

2003 consume r research report show the average age of bikers to

be 41 with a median household income of $55850 annually (see

table 2)

Because of the Baby Boomers large numbers and their

inclination toward free spending it was just a matter of time

before the tourist industry jumped onto the motorcycle boom

bandwagon (Baby Boomers) This in turn prompted some

major cities to sponsor weeklong celebrations geared toward

welcoming motorcycle enthusiasts and creating a $774 million a

year tourist industry in Daytona Beach alone A 2001 study

conducted by the University of Central Florida shows that this is Wriler~may

bracket significantly more than the $561 million generated by the Da ytona ellipses to

show that500 [ Jor the $196 million from spring break (Schneider 14) Not they were not

only is the motorcycle industry now more accessible to individuals In the original quotation

who might have been reluctant or unable to take part before but it Such brackets are optionalis also more lucrative for the tourist industry which now has a

financial incentive to sponsor biker events

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Table 2

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation

and Income 1985-2003

ADlt

18 ~

-l9- -30 NoI-- HOUSEtIOLO INCOME fOR PRIOR YEAR

l- $2OOXl 12Q0Q0-SJ( 939

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2003 1188

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311 13 bull noI~ I

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41 t l l 6 MMlt 501J ~

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51 I zS 135 131 ~ n

5 t~3 11 1amp A

gt1lt 10 z

Source 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report free Student

Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2005 Web 16 Mar 2008

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Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

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the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

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Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

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Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

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Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

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Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

UsingcMS ~umentation U$ing CMS Footnotes andEndnotes Formatting CMS FOotnotes and Endnotes FO~tting CMS Bibliographies SampleUterary Analysis CMS

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Checklist 273 QuotationsTables and Figures-MLA

a Format quotations correctly MLA requires that you present long quoshytations-more than four lines-in block format Block quotations are not

enclosed by quotation marks The entire quotation is indented 1 inch from the left margin Use the same double spacing as the rest of the

document

b Label and number tables placing them as close as possible to related text Before the table provide the label Table an identifying number and a caption capitalized according to the standard rules for titles Double-space the table (assuming youre not using an image of a table as student writer Nelson Rivera does) citing the source (if you didnt create it yourself) in a caption at the bottom The caption should use the same 1-inch margin as the rest of the paper

c Label and number illustrations and other visual material Place the item as close as possible to the related text providing underneath the label Fig (or Figure)an identifying number and the title (or a descriptive label or caption) For more on figures and tables see Section 21 b-2

underscore or display fonts

Use a note to connect text and images

Label --~

~~o~~~~and caption for figures below the item USing Fig or Figure

I

1inch

(enter he title and use same lont font size as in the paper no boldface

Sample MLA Paper 335

1inch

Nelson Rivera -001------

Ms Melissa Jantz Double-space all

English OI Rhetoric and Composition elements on the ~------I title page No

25 March 2005 ~ special spacing

Taking a Closer Look at the Motorcycle Boom or enlarged or 12 inch enhanced fonts -In 1969 the film Easy Rider revolutionized the motorcycle

III world by creating the bad boy biker image that is familiar to most

people today (see fig I) Bikers were renegades counterculture

bull

Fig I Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper growling down the

highway in Easy Rider (1969) representing bikers as rebels

road warriors who according to scholars Jeremy Packer and Mary

K Coffey were violent heteronormative and (for the most part)

masculine as they may be (641) Though they werent typical

heroes Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper portrayed life on the road

as life on their own terms and after the release of this movie the

motorcycle industry experienced a 98 increase in sales between

1970 and 1980 This increase diminished however soon after it

1 inchbull

~~

1 inch

336 337

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Authors last name -------------------------- appears 00 eyery pagl~

Rivera 2

peaked It wasnt until 1992 that the industry experienced a rebirth

with increases in motorcycle sales not seen since the 1970s

(Annual) Today the industry has reached the one million mark ~Thissource in motorcycle sales Up from just 278000 motorcycles sold in 1992

does nOl u~e page these sales numbers represent an increase of over 270 as seen in numbers

Table I

label ----- Table I numberand

Estimated New Motorcycle Sales 1992-2004provide a caption for tables above 1200000

the item 000

800000

600000

2000 2002 zooc

ArnQI Mmocrli 5uIi

im 218000 1933-193i)OO 191A -8OIIooo 1 9J5- ~tlll 1998 33(1 000 1997-lS$ OOO 1898 - m OOO 1i99- 54 aooo OOO 71000II 850tJIJ()OOlt 936000 2003 - 996000 2OG4 - 1OflOOOO

List source Source 2003 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report Free Student infomlation Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2004 Web 16 Mar 2008 beneath the table

This trend has continued into what is now a twelfth

consecutive year of record-breaking motorcycle sales Unlike those

involved in the first motorcycle craze in the 1970s todays

motorcycle enthusiasts do not have a box office hit movie to fuel

their interest and they do not dream of giving up the social

This states the lhesi~ of the causal argument

Indent block shy

quote 1Inch from leftmiddot

~ t hand margin and doubleshyspace iL Omit ON around quote

I

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responsibilities of work and family in the vein of Easy Riders freeshy

living protagonists Instead this sales increase is likely due to

several interrelated social and economic causes especially

including the rise in expendable income now enjoyed by the Baby

Boom generation Generally speaking the counterculture biker

image appeals to this group of aging activists and the biker

lifestyle is now much more accessible to those with the social

responsibilities of work and family

Indeed the stereotyped image of the average biker has

I dramatically changed over the last 20 years Todays bikers are a

new breed No longer are they simply leather-clad beer-drinking

Hells Angels as described in 1966 by Hunter S Thompson

~[ J running fast and loud on the early morning freeway

low in the saddle nobody smiles jamming crazy through1inch

traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe

This ellipsis -J missing by inches t like Genghis Khan on an iron horse mar~ actually11 II appears in Thompsons original1

I The in-text_t i W note (omes afterthe

puthdegctualdion_ al een 0f

lH II abloltkquote

a monster steed [ Jlong hair in the wind beards and

bandanas flapping earrings armpits chain whips [ J

and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on

101 moves over nervous to let the formation pass like a

burst of dirty thunder (3) --------------7

Even though much of this rebellious style remains todays biker

lifestyle does not necessarily exclude the demands of a more

traditional lifestyle In facl many of todays bikers are law firm

partners accountants and doctors--a lifestyle still frowned upon

in the early 1980s when for example a cycle-riding metropolitan

339 338 MLA Documentation

Rivera 4

court judge from New Mexico admitted in the American Bar

Association fournal that people think youre crazy riding a

motorcycle period (Winter 527) Now however the biker you see

growling down the highway might even be your boss This change

in image has made the biker lifestyle seem more accessible to

professionals who might have otherwise felt too mainstream to

take part in a counterculture

Even cable TV networks now spotlight the biker world with

programs such as World Biker Build-off American Steel and ~ Italicize televIsion

American Choppers and so the bikes that once invoked images of sfrleslitles

greasy leathers and snarling gangs are now just as likely to turn

Fig 2 Biking goes mainstream with Paul TeutuL Sr and Paul

TeutuL Jr of American Chopper

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 5

G5is a up in executives garages (Hopkins G5) This attention by the sectionpage

media has lured names such as Jay Leno Dennis Rodman andnumber in a newspaper Shaquille ONeal to join the biker lifestyle And the increase in

media coverage has in turn sparked the interest of a wider range

of Americans creating a greater market field and expanding the

buyer segments

Perhaps it is not that surprising then that women make up a

significant new addition to the motorcycle market In fact women

are the fastest-growing segment in the market and as Steve

Pilkington succinctly notes they are no longer taking a back seat

to men (9) According to the Motorcycle Industry CounciL female

ridership increased from 2 in 1985 to 10 in 2003 An article in

Bradlels -l Working Woman reports that ~loday lout of every II American

indicate that I d h I f 100 1960the I was motorcyc e owners IS a woman compare Wit out 0 III

originally a (Aronson 18) The overall increase in motorcycle sales can be capital letter

attributed in part to this increase in female riders Because many

women have experienced a growth in disposable income they can

now make motorcycle purchases on their own without the help of

their male partners The biker image now seems more accessible

and acceptable and women can more comfortably fit into this

lifestyle

This new gentler image is in large part created by a return to

the saddle by the Baby Boomers who had previously abandoned

their riding days in exchange for families and careers During the

last motorcycle boom the average rate of increase in motorcycle

sales matched that of the annual increase in the number of Baby

---

341Sample MLA Paper340 MLA Documentation

Rivera 6

Boom males reaching their 18th birthdays Ken Kurson who points

out these facts in Motorcycles for Grown-ups adds that 30 years

later much of this round of expansion comes from the fact that

Baby Boomers are rediscovering their love of motorcycles (112) In

the last 12 years the motorcycling lifestyle has attracted wealthier

and older owners both male and female and this is largely due to

the fact that the Baby Boom generation is now entering into a

stage of financial stability with no dependents The results of a

2003 consume r research report show the average age of bikers to

be 41 with a median household income of $55850 annually (see

table 2)

Because of the Baby Boomers large numbers and their

inclination toward free spending it was just a matter of time

before the tourist industry jumped onto the motorcycle boom

bandwagon (Baby Boomers) This in turn prompted some

major cities to sponsor weeklong celebrations geared toward

welcoming motorcycle enthusiasts and creating a $774 million a

year tourist industry in Daytona Beach alone A 2001 study

conducted by the University of Central Florida shows that this is Wriler~may

bracket significantly more than the $561 million generated by the Da ytona ellipses to

show that500 [ Jor the $196 million from spring break (Schneider 14) Not they were not

only is the motorcycle industry now more accessible to individuals In the original quotation

who might have been reluctant or unable to take part before but it Such brackets are optionalis also more lucrative for the tourist industry which now has a

financial incentive to sponsor biker events

Rivera 7

Table 2

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation

and Income 1985-2003

ADlt

18 ~

-l9- -30 NoI-- HOUSEtIOLO INCOME fOR PRIOR YEAR

l- $2OOXl 12Q0Q0-SJ( 939

mOOO4lt $50 000-414 ge9 $1~ QQ)$S9m

100tm-lfoW999 $IM mil Qqshyu_JIS()Id

SIIlJJlflO_oshy 15OODO_0

MAAIUl SToITUS

S HIGHEST LEVEl OF EDUCATION

SMIIIHfllIScMM

SChOOIG~ shy shy_SUIee

OCCUfATION Of OWNER

~omar-shyf~iIIaI

--- shy~ r~LaJOf aoy

St

Of TOTAL OWNERS

2003 1188

37 ~ 0 I n5~

O~ 1amp0 219 It2a1 320 tl1m 0

381 )31) tSJft

ft l I ~31 lU 327 la l~ f

311 13 bull noI~ I

-~ 117 shySmiddotu2~ Sl3 100 ~OQOsss

41 t l l 6 MMlt 501J ~

31 7-3 1~ -

J02lt 0 J9t lOS 216 IU - ID ~ 17 II 11~ 313 111 15) 13 1 111 O J27t 2middot ll u_ Ii 4

51 I zS 135 131 ~ n

5 t~3 11 1amp A

gt1lt 10 z

Source 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report free Student

Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2005 Web 16 Mar 2008

343 342 MLA Documentation

Rivera 8

Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 9

the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

345

112 lOch 1 inch Rivera 10

Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

J 1inch

MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper

Rivera II

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

347 Sample MLA Paper

Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

348 MLA Documentation

Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

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336 337

MLA Documentation

Authors last name -------------------------- appears 00 eyery pagl~

Rivera 2

peaked It wasnt until 1992 that the industry experienced a rebirth

with increases in motorcycle sales not seen since the 1970s

(Annual) Today the industry has reached the one million mark ~Thissource in motorcycle sales Up from just 278000 motorcycles sold in 1992

does nOl u~e page these sales numbers represent an increase of over 270 as seen in numbers

Table I

label ----- Table I numberand

Estimated New Motorcycle Sales 1992-2004provide a caption for tables above 1200000

the item 000

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List source Source 2003 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report Free Student infomlation Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2004 Web 16 Mar 2008 beneath the table

This trend has continued into what is now a twelfth

consecutive year of record-breaking motorcycle sales Unlike those

involved in the first motorcycle craze in the 1970s todays

motorcycle enthusiasts do not have a box office hit movie to fuel

their interest and they do not dream of giving up the social

This states the lhesi~ of the causal argument

Indent block shy

quote 1Inch from leftmiddot

~ t hand margin and doubleshyspace iL Omit ON around quote

I

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 3

responsibilities of work and family in the vein of Easy Riders freeshy

living protagonists Instead this sales increase is likely due to

several interrelated social and economic causes especially

including the rise in expendable income now enjoyed by the Baby

Boom generation Generally speaking the counterculture biker

image appeals to this group of aging activists and the biker

lifestyle is now much more accessible to those with the social

responsibilities of work and family

Indeed the stereotyped image of the average biker has

I dramatically changed over the last 20 years Todays bikers are a

new breed No longer are they simply leather-clad beer-drinking

Hells Angels as described in 1966 by Hunter S Thompson

~[ J running fast and loud on the early morning freeway

low in the saddle nobody smiles jamming crazy through1inch

traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe

This ellipsis -J missing by inches t like Genghis Khan on an iron horse mar~ actually11 II appears in Thompsons original1

I The in-text_t i W note (omes afterthe

puthdegctualdion_ al een 0f

lH II abloltkquote

a monster steed [ Jlong hair in the wind beards and

bandanas flapping earrings armpits chain whips [ J

and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on

101 moves over nervous to let the formation pass like a

burst of dirty thunder (3) --------------7

Even though much of this rebellious style remains todays biker

lifestyle does not necessarily exclude the demands of a more

traditional lifestyle In facl many of todays bikers are law firm

partners accountants and doctors--a lifestyle still frowned upon

in the early 1980s when for example a cycle-riding metropolitan

339 338 MLA Documentation

Rivera 4

court judge from New Mexico admitted in the American Bar

Association fournal that people think youre crazy riding a

motorcycle period (Winter 527) Now however the biker you see

growling down the highway might even be your boss This change

in image has made the biker lifestyle seem more accessible to

professionals who might have otherwise felt too mainstream to

take part in a counterculture

Even cable TV networks now spotlight the biker world with

programs such as World Biker Build-off American Steel and ~ Italicize televIsion

American Choppers and so the bikes that once invoked images of sfrleslitles

greasy leathers and snarling gangs are now just as likely to turn

Fig 2 Biking goes mainstream with Paul TeutuL Sr and Paul

TeutuL Jr of American Chopper

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 5

G5is a up in executives garages (Hopkins G5) This attention by the sectionpage

media has lured names such as Jay Leno Dennis Rodman andnumber in a newspaper Shaquille ONeal to join the biker lifestyle And the increase in

media coverage has in turn sparked the interest of a wider range

of Americans creating a greater market field and expanding the

buyer segments

Perhaps it is not that surprising then that women make up a

significant new addition to the motorcycle market In fact women

are the fastest-growing segment in the market and as Steve

Pilkington succinctly notes they are no longer taking a back seat

to men (9) According to the Motorcycle Industry CounciL female

ridership increased from 2 in 1985 to 10 in 2003 An article in

Bradlels -l Working Woman reports that ~loday lout of every II American

indicate that I d h I f 100 1960the I was motorcyc e owners IS a woman compare Wit out 0 III

originally a (Aronson 18) The overall increase in motorcycle sales can be capital letter

attributed in part to this increase in female riders Because many

women have experienced a growth in disposable income they can

now make motorcycle purchases on their own without the help of

their male partners The biker image now seems more accessible

and acceptable and women can more comfortably fit into this

lifestyle

This new gentler image is in large part created by a return to

the saddle by the Baby Boomers who had previously abandoned

their riding days in exchange for families and careers During the

last motorcycle boom the average rate of increase in motorcycle

sales matched that of the annual increase in the number of Baby

---

341Sample MLA Paper340 MLA Documentation

Rivera 6

Boom males reaching their 18th birthdays Ken Kurson who points

out these facts in Motorcycles for Grown-ups adds that 30 years

later much of this round of expansion comes from the fact that

Baby Boomers are rediscovering their love of motorcycles (112) In

the last 12 years the motorcycling lifestyle has attracted wealthier

and older owners both male and female and this is largely due to

the fact that the Baby Boom generation is now entering into a

stage of financial stability with no dependents The results of a

2003 consume r research report show the average age of bikers to

be 41 with a median household income of $55850 annually (see

table 2)

Because of the Baby Boomers large numbers and their

inclination toward free spending it was just a matter of time

before the tourist industry jumped onto the motorcycle boom

bandwagon (Baby Boomers) This in turn prompted some

major cities to sponsor weeklong celebrations geared toward

welcoming motorcycle enthusiasts and creating a $774 million a

year tourist industry in Daytona Beach alone A 2001 study

conducted by the University of Central Florida shows that this is Wriler~may

bracket significantly more than the $561 million generated by the Da ytona ellipses to

show that500 [ Jor the $196 million from spring break (Schneider 14) Not they were not

only is the motorcycle industry now more accessible to individuals In the original quotation

who might have been reluctant or unable to take part before but it Such brackets are optionalis also more lucrative for the tourist industry which now has a

financial incentive to sponsor biker events

Rivera 7

Table 2

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation

and Income 1985-2003

ADlt

18 ~

-l9- -30 NoI-- HOUSEtIOLO INCOME fOR PRIOR YEAR

l- $2OOXl 12Q0Q0-SJ( 939

mOOO4lt $50 000-414 ge9 $1~ QQ)$S9m

100tm-lfoW999 $IM mil Qqshyu_JIS()Id

SIIlJJlflO_oshy 15OODO_0

MAAIUl SToITUS

S HIGHEST LEVEl OF EDUCATION

SMIIIHfllIScMM

SChOOIG~ shy shy_SUIee

OCCUfATION Of OWNER

~omar-shyf~iIIaI

--- shy~ r~LaJOf aoy

St

Of TOTAL OWNERS

2003 1188

37 ~ 0 I n5~

O~ 1amp0 219 It2a1 320 tl1m 0

381 )31) tSJft

ft l I ~31 lU 327 la l~ f

311 13 bull noI~ I

-~ 117 shySmiddotu2~ Sl3 100 ~OQOsss

41 t l l 6 MMlt 501J ~

31 7-3 1~ -

J02lt 0 J9t lOS 216 IU - ID ~ 17 II 11~ 313 111 15) 13 1 111 O J27t 2middot ll u_ Ii 4

51 I zS 135 131 ~ n

5 t~3 11 1amp A

gt1lt 10 z

Source 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report free Student

Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2005 Web 16 Mar 2008

343 342 MLA Documentation

Rivera 8

Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 9

the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

345

112 lOch 1 inch Rivera 10

Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

J 1inch

MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper

Rivera II

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

347 Sample MLA Paper

Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

348 MLA Documentation

Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

UsingcMS ~umentation U$ing CMS Footnotes andEndnotes Formatting CMS FOotnotes and Endnotes FO~tting CMS Bibliographies SampleUterary Analysis CMS

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339 338 MLA Documentation

Rivera 4

court judge from New Mexico admitted in the American Bar

Association fournal that people think youre crazy riding a

motorcycle period (Winter 527) Now however the biker you see

growling down the highway might even be your boss This change

in image has made the biker lifestyle seem more accessible to

professionals who might have otherwise felt too mainstream to

take part in a counterculture

Even cable TV networks now spotlight the biker world with

programs such as World Biker Build-off American Steel and ~ Italicize televIsion

American Choppers and so the bikes that once invoked images of sfrleslitles

greasy leathers and snarling gangs are now just as likely to turn

Fig 2 Biking goes mainstream with Paul TeutuL Sr and Paul

TeutuL Jr of American Chopper

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 5

G5is a up in executives garages (Hopkins G5) This attention by the sectionpage

media has lured names such as Jay Leno Dennis Rodman andnumber in a newspaper Shaquille ONeal to join the biker lifestyle And the increase in

media coverage has in turn sparked the interest of a wider range

of Americans creating a greater market field and expanding the

buyer segments

Perhaps it is not that surprising then that women make up a

significant new addition to the motorcycle market In fact women

are the fastest-growing segment in the market and as Steve

Pilkington succinctly notes they are no longer taking a back seat

to men (9) According to the Motorcycle Industry CounciL female

ridership increased from 2 in 1985 to 10 in 2003 An article in

Bradlels -l Working Woman reports that ~loday lout of every II American

indicate that I d h I f 100 1960the I was motorcyc e owners IS a woman compare Wit out 0 III

originally a (Aronson 18) The overall increase in motorcycle sales can be capital letter

attributed in part to this increase in female riders Because many

women have experienced a growth in disposable income they can

now make motorcycle purchases on their own without the help of

their male partners The biker image now seems more accessible

and acceptable and women can more comfortably fit into this

lifestyle

This new gentler image is in large part created by a return to

the saddle by the Baby Boomers who had previously abandoned

their riding days in exchange for families and careers During the

last motorcycle boom the average rate of increase in motorcycle

sales matched that of the annual increase in the number of Baby

---

341Sample MLA Paper340 MLA Documentation

Rivera 6

Boom males reaching their 18th birthdays Ken Kurson who points

out these facts in Motorcycles for Grown-ups adds that 30 years

later much of this round of expansion comes from the fact that

Baby Boomers are rediscovering their love of motorcycles (112) In

the last 12 years the motorcycling lifestyle has attracted wealthier

and older owners both male and female and this is largely due to

the fact that the Baby Boom generation is now entering into a

stage of financial stability with no dependents The results of a

2003 consume r research report show the average age of bikers to

be 41 with a median household income of $55850 annually (see

table 2)

Because of the Baby Boomers large numbers and their

inclination toward free spending it was just a matter of time

before the tourist industry jumped onto the motorcycle boom

bandwagon (Baby Boomers) This in turn prompted some

major cities to sponsor weeklong celebrations geared toward

welcoming motorcycle enthusiasts and creating a $774 million a

year tourist industry in Daytona Beach alone A 2001 study

conducted by the University of Central Florida shows that this is Wriler~may

bracket significantly more than the $561 million generated by the Da ytona ellipses to

show that500 [ Jor the $196 million from spring break (Schneider 14) Not they were not

only is the motorcycle industry now more accessible to individuals In the original quotation

who might have been reluctant or unable to take part before but it Such brackets are optionalis also more lucrative for the tourist industry which now has a

financial incentive to sponsor biker events

Rivera 7

Table 2

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation

and Income 1985-2003

ADlt

18 ~

-l9- -30 NoI-- HOUSEtIOLO INCOME fOR PRIOR YEAR

l- $2OOXl 12Q0Q0-SJ( 939

mOOO4lt $50 000-414 ge9 $1~ QQ)$S9m

100tm-lfoW999 $IM mil Qqshyu_JIS()Id

SIIlJJlflO_oshy 15OODO_0

MAAIUl SToITUS

S HIGHEST LEVEl OF EDUCATION

SMIIIHfllIScMM

SChOOIG~ shy shy_SUIee

OCCUfATION Of OWNER

~omar-shyf~iIIaI

--- shy~ r~LaJOf aoy

St

Of TOTAL OWNERS

2003 1188

37 ~ 0 I n5~

O~ 1amp0 219 It2a1 320 tl1m 0

381 )31) tSJft

ft l I ~31 lU 327 la l~ f

311 13 bull noI~ I

-~ 117 shySmiddotu2~ Sl3 100 ~OQOsss

41 t l l 6 MMlt 501J ~

31 7-3 1~ -

J02lt 0 J9t lOS 216 IU - ID ~ 17 II 11~ 313 111 15) 13 1 111 O J27t 2middot ll u_ Ii 4

51 I zS 135 131 ~ n

5 t~3 11 1amp A

gt1lt 10 z

Source 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report free Student

Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2005 Web 16 Mar 2008

343 342 MLA Documentation

Rivera 8

Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 9

the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

345

112 lOch 1 inch Rivera 10

Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

J 1inch

MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper

Rivera II

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

347 Sample MLA Paper

Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

348 MLA Documentation

Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

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---

341Sample MLA Paper340 MLA Documentation

Rivera 6

Boom males reaching their 18th birthdays Ken Kurson who points

out these facts in Motorcycles for Grown-ups adds that 30 years

later much of this round of expansion comes from the fact that

Baby Boomers are rediscovering their love of motorcycles (112) In

the last 12 years the motorcycling lifestyle has attracted wealthier

and older owners both male and female and this is largely due to

the fact that the Baby Boom generation is now entering into a

stage of financial stability with no dependents The results of a

2003 consume r research report show the average age of bikers to

be 41 with a median household income of $55850 annually (see

table 2)

Because of the Baby Boomers large numbers and their

inclination toward free spending it was just a matter of time

before the tourist industry jumped onto the motorcycle boom

bandwagon (Baby Boomers) This in turn prompted some

major cities to sponsor weeklong celebrations geared toward

welcoming motorcycle enthusiasts and creating a $774 million a

year tourist industry in Daytona Beach alone A 2001 study

conducted by the University of Central Florida shows that this is Wriler~may

bracket significantly more than the $561 million generated by the Da ytona ellipses to

show that500 [ Jor the $196 million from spring break (Schneider 14) Not they were not

only is the motorcycle industry now more accessible to individuals In the original quotation

who might have been reluctant or unable to take part before but it Such brackets are optionalis also more lucrative for the tourist industry which now has a

financial incentive to sponsor biker events

Rivera 7

Table 2

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation

and Income 1985-2003

ADlt

18 ~

-l9- -30 NoI-- HOUSEtIOLO INCOME fOR PRIOR YEAR

l- $2OOXl 12Q0Q0-SJ( 939

mOOO4lt $50 000-414 ge9 $1~ QQ)$S9m

100tm-lfoW999 $IM mil Qqshyu_JIS()Id

SIIlJJlflO_oshy 15OODO_0

MAAIUl SToITUS

S HIGHEST LEVEl OF EDUCATION

SMIIIHfllIScMM

SChOOIG~ shy shy_SUIee

OCCUfATION Of OWNER

~omar-shyf~iIIaI

--- shy~ r~LaJOf aoy

St

Of TOTAL OWNERS

2003 1188

37 ~ 0 I n5~

O~ 1amp0 219 It2a1 320 tl1m 0

381 )31) tSJft

ft l I ~31 lU 327 la l~ f

311 13 bull noI~ I

-~ 117 shySmiddotu2~ Sl3 100 ~OQOsss

41 t l l 6 MMlt 501J ~

31 7-3 1~ -

J02lt 0 J9t lOS 216 IU - ID ~ 17 II 11~ 313 111 15) 13 1 111 O J27t 2middot ll u_ Ii 4

51 I zS 135 131 ~ n

5 t~3 11 1amp A

gt1lt 10 z

Source 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual Report free Student

Kit Motorcycle Industry CounciL 2005 Web 16 Mar 2008

343 342 MLA Documentation

Rivera 8

Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 9

the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

345

112 lOch 1 inch Rivera 10

Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

J 1inch

MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper

Rivera II

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

347 Sample MLA Paper

Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

348 MLA Documentation

Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

UsingcMS ~umentation U$ing CMS Footnotes andEndnotes Formatting CMS FOotnotes and Endnotes FO~tting CMS Bibliographies SampleUterary Analysis CMS

Page 6: Sample Research Paper-MLA - WiredProf.com … MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper 333 27c Sample Research Paper-MLA Checklist 27.2 Formatting the Title Page-MLA MLA does not require

343 342 MLA Documentation

Rivera 8

Though the Baby Boomers are known for their capacity for

free spending some research suggests that sales are up in part

because motorcycles provide the rider with an economical and

environmentally friendly method of transportation At a time when

gas prices are soaring more people are becoming aware of the

economic benefits of owning a motorcycle According to the US

Department of Transportation the average cost of self-serve

gasoline has risen from $112 in 1992 to $220 per gallon in 2004 ~

(Table 3-8) These figures reflect an increase of 96 With

motorcycles averaging 50 miles per gallon of gasoline versus

22 miles per gallon of gasoline for cars and small trucks (US

Department of Transportation Table 4-11) one can either ride

back and forth to work all week or go joy riding for an entire

weekend on just $20 worth of fuel Some motorcycle dealers have

attributed the sharp increase in motorcycle sales to the higher cost

of fuel claiming that when faced with higher prices at the pump ~

traditionally [ Jpeople put motorcycles into the mode of

transportation versus the mode it is usually in and that is

recreation Kenny IDJ Though it might seem odd that the very

Baby Boomers who can now enter the biker life because of their

expendable income are also attracted by the cost-saving elements

of owning a bike the two causes are not contradictory According

to the Strategic Edge a market research company that predicts the

buying patterns of various target groups many Baby Boomers

were concerned with environmental issues when they came of age

(Baby Boomers) In addition to the promise of the open road then

Sample MLA Paper

Rivera 9

the economic and environmentally responsible elements of the

biker lifestyle also appeal to the Baby Boomer

Concluding ~ For both social and economic reasons motorcycling is now summarizes

enjoying a greater role in mainstream American culture Ofcauses for Table 3-8 il growth in course Peter Fondas and Dennis Hoppers characters would neveratitJe in the motorcydeWorks Cited sales have considered the cost of fuel as they took to the road and theylist not a link to a table shown in the paper

This lengthy note sends readers to the co rtect Wo rks Cited entry

BracKets here are optional

certainly wouldnt have returned to the office after a weekend ride

But todays easy riders do not have to trade in their conventional

lives for the chance to live and ride free The new more accessible

and acceptable biker lifestyle has afforded them a taste of the

open road even if only for the weekend

345

112 lOch 1 inch Rivera 10

Works Cited

Annual Motorcycle Sales Roar through the One Million Mark In Inch I ---- Upward Trend Continues for 12th Consecutive Year~

Business Wire 21 Jan 2005 Wef17 Mar 2005

Aronson Amy A Vroom of Ones Own Women Riders Are

Fueling a Motorcycling Boom Working Woman June 1999

18 Print

Baby Boomers Grow Up The Strategic Solution The bull

Strategic Edge Fall 1996 Web 15 Mar 2005

1inch Easy Rider Dir Dennis Hopper Perf Peter Fonda and Dennis

Hopper ColumbialTri-Star Studios 1969 DVD

Easy Rider Image 40 Years of Easy Rider Nd Web 14 Mar 2005

Estimated New Units Retail Sales 2003 Motorcycle Statistical

Annual Report free Student Kit Motorcycle Industry

Council 2004 Web 14 Mar 2008

Hopkins Brent Mid-Life Executives Help Alter Bike Riders Image

Emotional Journal 24 Dec 2004 GS LexisNexis Web 15 Mar

2005

Kenny Megan Husbands Another Reason to Get a Bike Some

Say Rising Prices at the Pump Are Leading to a Spike in

Motorcycle Sales Charleston Daily Mail 20 Sept

2004 D Print

Kurson Ken Motorcycles for Grown-ups Bikes Arent Just for

Teenagers and Hell s Angels Anymore Money May 2001

112-13 Print

J 1inch

MLA Documentation Sample MLA Paper

Rivera II

Owner Profile by Age Marital Status Education Occupation and

The data ciled ~ Income 1985-2003 2004 Motorcycle Statistical Annual here is not actually Report free Studen t Kit Motorcycle Industry CouncIl 2005

available at Web 16 Mar 2008 the site It must be Packer Jeremy and Mary K Coffey Hogging the Road Cultural

~~~~ed Governance and the Citizen Cyclist Cultural Studies 18

(2004) 641-74 Print

Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr Photograph The Discovery

Channel American Chopper Nd Web 10 Mar 2005

Pilkington Steve Women Roll into House of Harley Alaska

Business Monthly Feb 2005 9 Print

Thompson Hunter S Hells Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

New York Ballantine 1966 Print

United States Dept of Transportation Table 3-8 Sales Price of

Transportation Fuel to End-Users NTS Report 2004 Bureau

of Transporation Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web 15 Mar 2005

--- Table 4-11 Passenger Car and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption

and Travel NTS Report 2004 Bureau of Transportation

Statistics 17 Nov 2004 Web IS Mar 2005

Winter Bill Biker-Judges and Lawyers Rev Up Their Image

American Bar Association Journal 68 (1982) 527-28 Print

Source (omp from~librMY

subscriptionservice

~l I

Thl 5rmreglc SIlIiilln Is italicil~d because it is the title of ~ newsletter The Strategic Edge is the name of~ company

I Easy Rirler is lilted by its title since that is how it is referred to in Ihe papel Secondary dcknowledqmiddot menBgive credit 10 ill direror and sl~rs

347 Sample MLA Paper

Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

(Continued)

348 MLA Documentation

Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

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Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

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g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

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the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

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the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

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Checklist 274 Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA

Works Cited pages use the same double spacing l-inch margins and runshyning headers (including your last name and page number) as all other secshytions of an MLA document so you can easily insert this page at the end of the electronic file you use to store your paper But use these additional guidelines

a Insert a page break before your Works Cited page The works-cited list should start at the top of the first full page following the body of the paper

b Center the title Works Cited on the first line If the list of works-cited entries overflows this page do not repeat this title on subsequent pages

c Provide works-cited entries for every source you mention in the paper Do not list materials you examined but do not cite in the body of the paper (If you do include such items the list can be retitled Works Consulted)

d Arrange the entries alphabetically Use the first words of each entry (excluding AAn and The) to alphabetize the list

e Use a hanging indentation of one-half inch for each entry Unlike paragraphs in the body of the paper the first line of each works-cited entry is not indented but subsequent lines are To adjust the indentashytion use your word processors paragraph formatting feature or if proshyvided its indentation and tabbing ruler

f When more than one entry begins with the same persons name replace the repeated information with three hyphens followed by a period This helps readers see easily that the same person is responsible for more than one source on your list

van der Plas Rob The Mountain Bike Book Choosing Riding and

Maintaining the Off-Road Bicycle 3rd ed San Francisco

Bicycle 1993 Print

--- Mountain Bike Magic Mill Valley Bicycle 1991 Print

g Use cross-references to shorten entries If Citing multiple selections from the same book you dont need to repeat all information about the book for each works-cited entry Instead create a separate full entry for

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Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

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Formatting the Works Cited Page-MLA (Continued)

the book itself referring to this entry as you create entries for individual se lections Insert the cross-reference after the selections title where you would normally put the book s title and publication detail s using the same guidelines for identifying sources here that you do for identi fyi ng them with in-text notes (See Section 27a- l )

Behrens Laurence and Leonard J Rosen Writing and Reading across

the Curriculum 8th ed New York Longman 2003 Print

Kaplan Jeffrey P and William H Die tz Caloric Imba lance and

Public Health Policy Behren s and Rosen 440-47

Morrison Toni Cinderellas Stepsisters Behrens and Rosen 590-92

bull

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