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Metzen, Chris, and James Waugh, writers. StarCraft II: Legacy of the
Void. Blizzard Entertainment, 2015. OS X.
FORMATTING A RESEARCH PAPER
Name, course, title. MLA does not require a separate title page. In the
upper left-hand corner of your first page, include your name, your professor’s
name, the name of the course, and the date. Center the title of your paper
on the line after the date; capitalize it as you would a book title.
Page numbers. In the upper right-hand corner of each page, one-half
inch below the top of the page, include your last name and the page num-
ber. Number pages consecutively throughout your paper.
Font, spacing, margins, and indents. Choose a font that is easy to read
(such as Times New Roman) and that provides a clear contrast between regu-
lar and italic text. Double-space the entire paper, including your works
cited list. Set one-inch margins at the top, bottom, and sides of your text;
do not justify your text. The first line of each paragraph should be indented
one-half inch from the left margin.
Long quotations. When quoting more than three lines of poetry, more
than four lines of prose, or dialogue between characters in a drama, set
off the quotation from the rest of your text, indenting it one-half inch (or
five spaces) from the left margin. Do not use quotation marks, and put
any parenthetical documentation after the final punctuation.
In Eastward to Tartary , Kaplan captures ancient and contemporary
Antioch for us:
At the height of its glory in the Roman-Byzantine age, when it
had an amphitheater, public baths, aqueducts, and sewage pipes,
half a million people lived in Antioch. Today the population is
only 125,000. With sour relations between Turkey and Syria, and
unstable politics throughout the Middle East, Antioch is now a
backwater — seedy and tumbledown, with relatively few tourists.
I found it altogether charming. (123)
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