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- Got any good reading suggestions?
- What does MLA format heading look like?
- How do I insert page numbers in MLA format?
- How do I include page numbers with quotes?
- Any movie suggestions to enhance my learning?
- I'm confused about how to format literature titles in my paper.
- Should quotations be indented in my essay?
- What do you mean when you say, 'introduce quotes'?
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Got any good reading suggestions?
Night by Elie Wiesel
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Twilight and New Moon Stephenie Meyer
Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, This Lullaby, Just Listen all by Sarah Dessen
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Susanne Strempek Shea
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Where the Heart Is, and The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, both by Billie
Letts
The Rules of Survival, Nancy Werlin (A good one to read after A Child Called
It)
King Dork by Frank Portman is the anti-Catcher in the Rye
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What does MLA format heading look like?
Your Name
Mrs. Capaldi
English Course
Date
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How do I insert page numbers in MLA format?
This is how I do it in Microsoft Word:
Insert page numbers
Top right
Back to document
Double click on number at top of page
A box will appear
Type in your name and shift text to meet number
Number is also movable.
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How do I include page numbers with quotes?
(333).
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Any movie suggestions to enhance my learning?
The film, Saved, is a good modern interpretation of themes in The Scarlet
Letter
Osama, the first film to come out of Afghanistan after the Taliban lost
control, will help you to understand the country Amir returns to in The Kite
Runner. (This film is in Pashtu with English subtitles)
Hotel Rwanda and Schindler's List are both gripping accounts of genocide
that you may want to view after reading Night, by Elie Wiesel.
There is only one To Kill A Mockingbird, with Gregory Peck as Atticus. See
it after reading the novel; you won't be disappointed.
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I'm confused about how to format literature titles in my paper.
Basically, longer works such as books, plays, and films are either
underlined or italicized. Shorter works like song lyrics, poetry, short
stories, essays, news articles and TV programs should be placed between
quotation marks.
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Should quotations be indented in my essay?
Only quotations 4 lines or more should be indented. They should be indented
10 spaces, and should have no quotation marks. Quotations 1-3 lines long
should be in the paragraph with quotation marks around them.
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What do you mean when you say, 'introduce quotes'?
Don't leave quotes 'floating' in the middle of your essay. The simplest way
is to provide an example in support of your thesis, explain it fully using
details, then use a quotation from the book. Introduce the quote by
identifying the speaker. For example, 'Dimmesdale says,' or 'Wiesel
writes,' prior to the quote.
Check out this example:
One example of loss of innocence found in Night is when Wiesel first sees
his father cry. Wiesel’s family is moved into a cramped ghetto, many of
their possessions already taken from them. Then, the Jews are gathered for
deportation. He watches in horror as his father is forced out of his home.
Wiesel writes, “My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him
weep. I had never imagined that he could” (16).
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