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Student Name (Yours)
Instructor Name (Kellie Fischer)
Title/section of class (English 101 UA)
Date (2 October 2008)
Title Goes Here
Your essay begins here with an exciting hook to grab your readers and make them want
to continue reading. Note that your title is simply centered. It is not bold, underlined, italicized,
or in a larger font. Note also that everything in MLA format from your name to the last entry of
your works cited is double spaced, no more, no less. Your margins should be 1” on all four
sides: top, bottom, and both sides. Finally, note that your works cited page is its own page, and it
is the final page(s) of your essay, not a separate document. Ask for help if you do not know how
to set up the page numbering in your header, make the double spacing automatic, set margins, or
force the works cited to be a new page. It’s easy if you know it, but it’s very frustrating if you do
not. So ask me.  Is this the most important part of writing? Certainly not! But it is what
MLA requires, so when future instructors assign an essayin MLA format, you willl know how to
set up the document and create the works cited page (see below).
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Works Cited
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “The Birthmark.” The Literature Network. 2010. Web. 26 Jan. 2010.
<http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/125/>.
“National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010).” China.org.cn. 2009. Web. 15 Oct.
2009.
Olds, Sharon. “The One Girl at the Boys Party.” Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed.
Kirszner and Mandell. Compact 5th ed. U. S.: Thomson Heinle, 2004. 899. Print.
Piercy, Marge. “Barbie Doll.” Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Kirszner and Mandell.
Compact 5th ed. U. S.: Thomson Heinle, 2004. 902-3. Print.
Schaefer, Bradley E. "Meteors That Changed the World." Sky and Telescope 98.6 (2005): 68-75.
ProQuest. Web. 2 Oct. 2008.
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” UN.org.United Nations, 2009. Web. 15 Oct.
2009.
Walter, Jess. Citizen Vince. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Print.