How do I style headings and subheadings in a research paper?
Headings and subheadings can help organize and structure your writing. In general, longer and more complex works warrant more of them than shorter ones. Avoid… Read More
Headings and subheadings can help organize and structure your writing. In general, longer and more complex works warrant more of them than shorter ones. Avoid… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
In an index or sortable list of titles, MLA style follows the The Chicago Manual of Style, which recommends placing initial articles at the end of the… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
The language that you use to describe elements in your works-cited list should be the language that your paper is written in, which should also… Read More
The MLA Handbook explains that you should “[i]dentify an omission within a sentence by using three periods with a space before each and a space… Read More
Epigraphs establish tone, highlight allusions, provide commentary, and mark transitions between parts of a work. Primarily ornamental, they are not discussed subsequently in the text. … Read More
The MLA Handbook does not provide guidelines for formatting a thesis or dissertation—or for preparing the parts of such a project, like a preface, dedication,… Read More