In response to some of your questions, here are some helpful tips for MLA formatting. You can find more details using some of the resources I posted in previous prompts.
Also, please check out sample papers in the dropbox folder, to use as a model of a literary criticism paper in MLA format.
Quotes of Four Lines or More
When inserting a quote of four lines or more, you need to format it differently than a regular quote.
- Introduce the quote with a colon (not quotation marks)
- Indent an inch from the left (total margin from the edge 2 inches)
- Single space the quote
- Cite as normal (author's last name page number)
- Remember that if you introduce the source in your sentence, you only need to put the page number.
It should look like this:
If you have other questions, please feel free to e-mail me or post them and I (or others) can respond!
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