Essay Guidelines

When you begin your essay, you must use MLA format.  Follow these steps if you weren't in class today:

1. Open Word on your computer.

2.  Set margins at 1".  Go to "layout" and click it.  Choose the first icon to click.  It says 1".

3. Double space your paper.  One the "home" tab you will see lines with a blue line going up and down.  Click that and choose 2.0.

4. Make the font Times New Roman.  This is on the home tab again. 

5. Next to Times New Roman you will see numbers, change it to 12.

Do not do anything until you have set the MLA items above.

6. Next you will type your heading.  This does NOT go in the header, but is on the actual page.  Make sure to type it correctly:
You name: First and last name, if you have a double last name you mus use it.
Ms. Coffey
English III, ___ (the blank is where you put your class period without the line under it)
25 September 2019

7. On the next line choose the center button under "home" and center your title.  If you don't know your title yet (it isn't your word) then write the word "title" to hold the centered space.

8. Hit enter again, and click back to the left margin for beginning your paragraph.  Once there hit the "TAB" key and it will give you your indent.

Start typing.  You must indent every paragraph.

**This essay is due end of day Thursday.   You must staple your 1 page rough draft to the back of your essay.