60 STEPS
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The first step is to open a new document in Microsoft Word.
We are going to start my creating the header:
Click Insert
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Click Page Number
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Click Top of Page
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Click Plain Number 3
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Type your last name to the left of the page number
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We have to change the font.
Click Home
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Click the font drop down menu
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Click Times New Roman
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Click Page 1 content
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Doubleclick onto the main area of the page to get out of the header settings
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We have to set the font for the paper. Click on the font drop-down menu
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Click Times New Roman
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Type in your name, first and last and Press Enter
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Type your instructor's name and Press Enter
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Type the name of the class and Press Enter
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Type the date: day, abreviation of the month., and year and Press Enter
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Click Center Align for the title of your paper
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Type the title of your paper and Press Enter
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Change the alignment for the body of your paper:
Click Align Left
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Start to write you paper!
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A few more formatting notes:
Highlight all the content and
Click Paragraph...
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In the spacing section, Click Line spacing: drop-down menu
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Click Double
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Click Don't add space between paragraphs of the same ...
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Click OK
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Highlight the body of the paper
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Click Paragraph...
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In the Indentation section, Click Special drop-down menu
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Click First line
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Click OK
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Click Page 1 content
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Type in Page 1 content and Press Backspace
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Press Shift+Backspace
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Type up your paper now that it is all properly formatted.
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When you are ready to create your Works Cited page, Click Insert
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Click
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Click Pages
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Click Page Break so that you start on a brand new page without any funny issues of where it starts.
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Click onto the new Page
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Click Home
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Click Center
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Type Works Cited as the title of this page and Press Enter
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Now for the sources, Click Align Left
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Click Paragraph...
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In the Indentation section, Click Special:
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Click Hanging
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Make sure that Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style is checked
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Click OK
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Click Page 2
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Type in the author's name:
Last name, First name.
Punctuation is important!
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Type "The Title of the Article in Quotation Marks."
Make sure the period goes before the closing quotation mark.
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Click
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Click Italic
Type in The Name of the Journal that Published the Article,
Comma
and Click Italic to turn the italics off
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Click
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Type the volume and issue number:
vol. #, no. #,
Note: Because the abbreviation is happening in the middle of this "run-on sentence" that includes all the publication information, the abbrev. will be lower case unless it is a proper name, like a month.
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Type the page range and a period.
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Type the name of the database in Italic
comma,
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Click
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Paste the permanent link or DOI
Period.
Press Enter
Repeat for all the sources and put them in alphabetical order based on the first letters of each entry.
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Don't forget to SAVE
Click File Tab
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Click
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Click Save
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Click Browse
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Type in File name: and Click Save
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Click
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That's it. Ask a librarian if you need any help formatting you paper in MLA style.
MLA Handbook, 9th. ed. (Print) by