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Megan Robertson
English 110
4 April 2008
Title of Your Paper
MLA style is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. I know that the different disciplines
have different standards when it comes to citations, but this is an English class, and conventions
die hard in this particular discipline, so MLA it is. Having written in this style for the past eight
years, I am very familiar with it that means I will know if you play around with margins and
font sizes and such. Use a 12 point font and double space throughout. If you are citing at length
(which I do not recommend on such a short paper) make sure you do so according to the MLA
format. You can find out more information via the links on the class blog to the OWL (On-Line
Writing Lab at the University of Purdue). When you cite from a book that we have looked at, it
is fairly straightforward: author, title, place, publisher, date. If you cite from material that is in
the course package I still expect you to acknowledge you source; for the purposes of the course it
should look something like this: Author. Poem Title. UBC English 110 017 Course Package.
2008. Include all relevant punctuation and do not deviate from the examples on the OWL
website. If you cite from a book, like The Hobbit for example, and are talking about Bilbos
house, you should talk about how the tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite
straight into the side of the hill (Tolkein 11). Once you have included the authors name, you
can cite more from the same work, about goblins of instance, you should describe their yells
and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering (86). Now, if I compare the noise the goblins
make to John Dee in The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, I need to cite Gaiman as the author

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when I make mention of the fact that Dee sleeps without dreaming, but his sleep is sound and
restful (209). Because I have directly mentioned Gaiman in the sentence when I quoted from
his work, I do not need to include his name in the citation. Were I to go back to Bilbos
adventures between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage, I
need to put the authors name in citation once more (Tolkein 124).
Good luck with your essays. If you have any questions consult the various guides and if
you cannot find what you are looking for, just ask. See below for the works cited page.

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Works Cited
Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes. New York: DC Comics, 1995.
Tolkein, J.R.R. The Hobbit. London: HarperCollins, 1998.