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Sample Essay in MLA Format
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| Click on the thumbnails below to see large reproductions of the sample pages. (The essay itself is an adaptation of Samuel Johnson's Rambler 4, for March 30, 1750, on the subject of prose fiction). | |||||||||
| First Page Research essays should not include a separate title page. Instead, insert a "header" that includes both your last name and the page number, flush with the right-hand margin, 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) below the top of the page. Approximately 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) below this (i.e., one inch (2.54 cm) below the top of the page), type the following, flush with the left margin, and each item double-spaced, and below the previous item:
Double-spaced below the date of submission, centre the title of your essay; each line of this is also double-spaced. Double-spaced below the last line of the title, begin the first paragraph of your essay.
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Subsequent Pages Continue the "header," which includes both your last name and page number, on subsequent page, numbering these consecutively. The "header" should be, again, 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) from the top of the page, and the text of your essay one inch (2.54 cm) from the top of the page. |
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Endnotes Continue the "header," which includes both your last name and page number, on each page of your endnotes, numbering these consecutively in the same series as the rest of the paper. The "header" should be, again, 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) from the top of the page, and the first endnote should begin one inch (2.54 cm) from the top of the page. |
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List of Works Consulted Continue the "header," which includes both your last name and page number, on each page of your list of Works Consulted, numbering these consecutively in the same series as the rest of the paper. The "header" should be, again, 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) from the top of the page, and the first bibliographical entry should begin one inch (2.54 cm) from the top of the page. |
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