MLA Essay Checklist
The Basics
☐text is double-spaced including quotations
☐Times New Roman font
☐12 pt. font size
☐no bold writing
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☐ 1 inch margins on all four sides
☐Cover page: 1/3rd of the way down the page you should place your title. Your name should be ce ntered in on the page. Cour name, teacher’s name and date
are centered at the bottom of the page.
☐Your title should be descriptive of your argument. It must be in Title Ca, not in all capital letters. (The first word and all the 'main' words in a title should have
initial capitals, and all the 'joining' words should be left in lower ca, e.g.: To Be, or Not to Be, That is the Question)
☐Book Titles or Major Works should be underlined or italicized, not both. “Short Stories”, “Poems”, “Articles” should be put in quotations marks.
☐header numbering all pages concutively (except cover page) in the upper right-hand corner, one-half inch from the top and flush with the right margin. Includes
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last name, followed by a space with a page number; number all pages
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concutively with Arabic numerals (2, 3, 4, etc.)
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☐only one space after periods or other punctuation marks
☐the upper left-hand corner of the first page lists: your last name and the page number
☐strong thesis statement and three main points included in the intro
☐prent ten is ud to convey the ongoing life of any literature of : *Hamlet stabs Poloni
us (vs. stabbed); Shakespeare portrays Henry V as a subtle Machiavellian (vs. Shakespeare portrayed).
☐proper indentation (first line of each paragraph moved to right five spaces/tabbed once. Indenting is not an afterthought. If you need an arrow to indicate it is
indented then it is NOT!)
☐proper paragraphing (at least 4 ntences per paragraph AND at least 5 paragraphs in the essay)
☐u transition words to allow your essay to “flow”
☐no personal pronouns(“you don’t know how important voting is until…”)
☐no narrative language(“I will write”, “in my essay”, “I believe”, “in conclusion”)☐then and than ud correctly
☐their, they’re, there ud correctly
☐whether and weather ud correctly
☐“back in the day” or “now a days” is not ud
☐ntences express complete thoughts (be careful with “But” or “Becau”)
☐abbreviations are not ud (etc., esp., … )
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☐no “texting” language: gonna, wanna, sorta, etc.
☐contractions are NOT ud (can’t, won’t, isn’t, doesn’t)
☐proper spelling (numbers less than 20 are spelled out)
☐the author is addresd by full name or last name only, NOT FIRST NAME
In Text Citations (Note: bolding is only for indication of the items highlighted-it is not to be done in your paper!)
☐All framed direct and indirect borrowings (quotes and paraphras) are followed by the page number in parenthes after the quotation marks and before ending
:
*Woodrow Wilson declared, “It is not learning but the spirit of rvices that will give a college a place in the public annals of the nation”(453).briars
supplier* “The faulty study resulted in crop mismanagement,” Dr. Broomfield
comments (27).
☐ t he author’s last name and the page numb er of the source parated by a single space are in parenthes to identify the source of each passage or idea :
* Antony's "modifications of Brutus's formulaic oratory are the first hint that
[Anthony] knows his business"(Macrone 45).
☐quotations longer than four typed lines are indented ten spaces (tabbed twice) and are introduced with a colon (:) for punctuation. The punctuation comes before the citation’s parenthesis.
☐when two or more sources are cited within a single ntence, the parenthetical notes appear right after the statements they support.
☐when you need to document a work without an author, simply list the title, shortened if necessary, and the page number, using quotes or italics as is
appropriate.
☐avoid in-text citations of websites by identifying the site in your paper itlf
☐always explain how each quotation supports your argument!
The Works Cited Page
dairy☐the title “Works Cited” is centered at the top of the page
☐include only sources mentioned in the paper
☐items on the Works Cited page are arranged in alphabetical order by last name of the author. If no author is given, list it according to the title, excluding articles.
☐the first line of each entry is flush with the left-hand margin. Subquent lines of the entry are indented five spaces/tabbed once
☐the list is entirely Double-spaced- Do not quadruple-space between entries
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☐each type of text is cited according to MLA guidelines
(lish.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/)
