Essay #1 Checklist (Rough Draft)

These are some general MLA format requirements. As you write your rough draft, make sure you have done as many of these as you can.

General

q Typed

q 1” margins

q Times New Roman 12

q Double-spaced

q Last name and page number in upper right corner of each page

q Essay is left aligned (not justified)

q Beginning of each paragraph is indented (one tab)

q Only one space between sentences

Heading

 

q 4 lines long

q    left aligned

q double spaced

q 1^st line: your name

q 2^nd line: your instructor’s name (Ms. Uzzilia)

q 3^rd line: your course (ENG101.0761)

q 4^th line: the date in “day month year” format with no punctuation (15 March 2012)

Title

 q Centered

q No underline

q No bold

q No italics (except when referencing the titles of longer works in your title)

q No quotation marks (except when referencing the title of shorter works in your title)

q No period at the end

To see an example of the first page of an MLA-style paper, see the Purdue OWL website (scroll to the bottom of the page).