Remember back in my Automating Paragraph and Hanging Indentation posts when I said there was a wrong way to indent? I talked about indenting, and how the use of proportional fonts made indenting things with spaces a bad idea. This is … Continue reading →
Why, When, and How to use Quotations? If you’re writing an essay in MLA format and you need to either incorporate dialogue or textual material from another source, you will need to know how to handle MLA formatted quotations. You … Continue reading →
MLA formatted running headers and block headers may seem tricky sometimes, but they’re not nearly as difficult as you might think. The big challenge is knowing what belongs in each, and how the information should be arranged. MLA Formatted Running Header: … Continue reading →
If you’re writing papers, it’s likely you need to know how to do a first line indent for every new paragraph. If you’re citing papers, you’ll need to know how to do what’s called a hanging indent. Microsoft Office’s Word gives us … Continue reading →