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This document serves as a template for formatting a research paper in MLA style, detailing requirements such as margins, font type, spacing, and alignment. It emphasizes the importance of parenthetical citations for acknowledging sources and provides guidance on their proper use. The template ensures consistency and readability throughout the paper.

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This document serves as a template for formatting a research paper in MLA style, detailing requirements such as margins, font type, spacing, and alignment. It emphasizes the importance of parenthetical citations for acknowledging sources and provides guidance on their proper use. The template ensures consistency and readability throughout the paper.

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Firstname Lastname

Instructor’s Name
Course Number
27 March 2006
Center Title, Do Not Bold or Underline
This is a template for formatting a research paper in MLA format. The paper has
one-inch margins all around. Each page has a header of last name and page number.
The paper will be double-spaced throughout, no extra space between sections or
paragraphs. The entire paper, including the heading and title, needs to be in the
same type and size of font. This template uses Ariel 12pt font. Because it is easy
to read, this font is definitely appropriate for college essays. Another font you
may use is Times New Roman. Make sure that the essay is left aligned, not fully
justified. Follow your instructor’s preference in spacing and be consistent. Hit
the enter key only once at the end of each paragraph. Indenting each paragraph will
let the reader know a new paragraph has begun.
In the MLA format, you document your research in parenthetical citations. This
allows you to “acknowledge your sources by keying brief parenthetical citations in
your
text to an alphabetical list of works that appears at the end of the paper”
(Gibaldi 142).
Notice that in this brief citation the period goes after the parenthesis. The
information in parenthesis should be as brief as possible. You will use the
author’s last name or a shortened title for unsigned works. If you used the key
information (author’s last name or the title of an unsigned work) in your text, do
not repeat it in the parenthesis. Gibaldi

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