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Writing Strategies
- Writing Strategy: Getting Started
- Writing Strategy: Redundant Acronyms
- Writing Strategy: Apostrophes
- Writing Strategy: Definite/Indefinite Articles
- Writing Strategy: Audience and Purpose
- Writing Strategy: Comma Splices
- Writing Strategy: Sentence Fragments
- Writing Strategy: Homonyms (Misspelled and Misused Words)
- Writing Strategy: Idioms
- Writing Strategy: Irregular Verbs
- Writing Strategy: MLA Format
- Writing Strategy: Modifiers
- Writing Strategy: Paragraphs
- Writing Strategy: Parts of Speech
- Writing Strategy: Passive and Active Voice
- Writing Strategy: Thesis Statement
- Writing Strategy: Transitions
- Writing Strategy: Wordiness
- Writing Strategy: Writing Process
Reading Strategies
- Strategies 01: Mumble, Read, and Listen
- Strategies 02: Skimming and Key Words
- Strategies 03: Marginal Notes and Mapping
- Strategies 04: Inductive/Deductive Reading and Annotating a Text
- Strategies 05: Reading/Rereading and Rumination
- Strategies 06: Reflection Points and Talking Through a Text
- Strategies 07: Hearing or Visualizing a Text
- Strategies 08: Start at the End and Summarize
- Strategies 09: Reading on a Walk and Moving When You Read
- Strategies 10: Confidence & Focus
- Strategies 11: A Special Place, A Journal, and Reading Rewards
Reading Improvement
MLA 9th Edition - Formatting
*The following guidelines are based on the MLA Handbook Ninth Edition. Students are advised to adhere to their instructor's specific requirements.
Fig. 1: The top of the first page of an MLA formatted page.
- Page Margins
- Margins are one inch at the top and bottom and on both sides of the text.
- Running Head and Page Numbers
- Pages are numbered consecutively in the upper right-hand corner, half an inch from the top and flush with the right margin. Type your surnam(last name), followed by a space, before the page number.
- Title
- One inch from the top of the first page and flush with the left margin
- Include your name, instructor’s name, course name and number, and date on separate double-spaced lines.
- Center the title of your essay using title capitalization.
- Text Formatting
- Double-space the entire essay, including the Works Cited page.
- Indent the first line of a paragraph half an inch from the left margin.
- Indent block quotations half an inch as well.
- Leave one space after a period or other concluding punctuation mark.
- Use a readable typeface, e.g. Times New Roman, and font size between 11 and 13 points throughout your essay.
- Works Cited Page (last page)
- Center the heading, Works Cited, an inch from the top of the page.
- List entries in alphabetical order.
- Begin each citation flush with the left margin. Subsequent lines should begin half an inch from the left margin (hanging indent).
- Double-space the entire Works Cited page including the heading and each entry.
Fig. 2: The top of the first page of a works-cited list.