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The International Standards Organization recommends writing dates with numerals in year-month-day format (e.g., 2018-10-24) because it is useful when people need to . . .
Published 23 January 2019
A table of contents is generally used for longer projects such as theses or dissertations, but if you are required to include a table of contents for . . .
There are many possible ways to format an appendix. A rule of thumb is to let the content guide the choice of format. Types of appendix content . . .
Published 20 December 2018
Formatting essays can be tedious work. Even though there is no substitute for careful reading, there are some ways to streamline the process. Mistakes in formatting can . . .
Published 19 December 2018
An abstract of a work, usually of an essay, is a concise summary of its main points. It is meant to concentrate the argument of a work, . . .
Published 5 December 2018
The first page of an essay should be numbered 1. Therefore, if you are preparing an essay that includes a title page, do not number the title . . .
The MLA has never offered guidance on formatting outlines. The seventh edition of the handbook notes that there are many types of outlines and that if you . . .
In an index or sortable list of titles, MLA style follows the The Chicago Manual of Style, which recommends placing initial articles at . . .
When you refer to the names of headers or titled sections in a work, you may style them with or without quotation marks as long as you . . .
It is not standard to place an appendix after a works-cited list, but if you need to do so, and the appendix cites many sources, create . . .
