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[Music] everyone Mel here with Mel B Academy comm where we help you become the student who always gets an A+ today I'm going to show you how to format your essay in MLA style using Microsoft Word to start we're gonna open Microsoft Word the first thing you want to do is set up the formatting for your actual essay now keep in mind that formatting plays a major role in your grade setting the proper formatting for your MLA style essay is the easiest part of writing an essay and it does play a major role in your final grade so you want to make sure that you're getting everything right so start off you want to make sure that you change your font style for MLA you'll always use Times New Roman so to get to this screen you want to make sure that you're on the Home tab you're gonna select this drop-down key now if you use this often you might have some recently used fonts here if you don't really use it that often you can type the font you're looking for or you can scroll using your mouse or you can scroll using the scrolling bar here so we're gonna select Times New Roman the next thing you want to do is set the size and the size and never changes it's always a size 12 all right so now we've set the font size and style we want to make sure that our margins are set correctly now this should already be set as soon as you open Microsoft Word but in case it's not we want to have one inch margins all the way around the paper now this is the amount of space that's between the edge of the page and where you're actually putting content so to get to this you can select the Layout tab select margins and you want it to be normal as you can see it says top bottom right and left is one-inch this is exactly where you want it to be it's already set to this so we're good the next thing you want to do is insert your page number so hit insert and all the way over here to the right you can select page number now when you hover over this section you'll get a pop up you don't have to click it you can just hover you want your page number to always be to the top right so you can hit three so once you've selected this you can actually hit your spacebar on the computer well you'll have to deselect that first I'll hit your spacebar on the computer and you'll just type your last name now you'll notice here that this is not Times New Roman font but if you double click it you'll get this pop-up that allows you to change the font so go ahead and change it to Times New Roman and you can change it to 12 so you can also do the same thing here with Lee number and then to get out of this screen you can just double-click anywhere on the page so now it's sort of grayed out here and it's kicked us right back to the home page it's an hour right back where we need to be the next thing we need to do is set up our spacing for the content of the document now you can do this a couple ways but this is the easiest there's a little arrow here right next to the word paragraph so remember you'll need to be on the Home tab and you'll hit this arrow and this is where we have some additional options so the first thing that you'll want to make sure is that your spacing is set to zero points on all of these sections here I always have it zero and zero because we don't want to add any additional space after each paragraph we want everything to stay consistent and even throughout and you can check this as well to make sure we're not adding any space between these paragraphs now for MLA formatting we need to have double spacing so you can do this by selecting double or you can change this to two point up and hit enter either way you're gonna get to the same space then we want to be which is double spaced so the next thing we want to do is make sure we're putting the correct title information now for most MLA style essays you're not going to need to create a cover page there are some professors who do want this but in most cases no your your title information at the top of your essay page the front essay page will actually act as your cover page so when you're creating your content on the first page this information is key and a lot of students get this wrong but keep in mind that if you can get at least of the formatting things correctly it's gonna make your content look much better overall and you're much more likely to get a better grade on your essay if you get these things correct so the first thing you want to intern is your name then you're gonna hit enter the next thing you want to enter is your professors name now this is not a place for you to get crazy I understand that there are some students who have great relationships with different professors and maybe they even have a nickname for a professor gotta remember that we need to keep things professional so when you're in college or even in high school it's time to learn how to keep everything professional as if you were in a work environment so don't add any nicknames don't add just the last name of your professor actually put their title their last name or their full name so if it's John Smith put that but also keep in mind that some professors could have Doctorate degrees some could just have graduate degrees their education varies so you also don't want to miss step here and put the wrong title you never want to start with mister this is on not a good format you never want to enter something like misters especially if it's a female professor you don't want to put Minister missus because you don't know this person's situation and you don't need to know the safest bet is to put their first and last name or you can put professor because we all know that they're a professor of some kind so professor Smith work the best safest option would just be their first and last name which you should know if you're attending the class next you're going to hit enter again notice how we are getting these double spaces between the lines this is great the next thing you want to do is enter our course information now if you're in an English class don't just type in English class okay keep in mind that this is acting as your cover page for your essay and this helps you professor keep everything organized so make sure you're actually putting the correct course name and course identifier so let's say it's a creating creative writing course and it's the course numbers for 20 sometimes your professor could be teaching two of the same level courses but at different times of the day so you might notice there's another identifier at the end of that name something like this it's a good idea to go ahead and put that there if you can because this helps the professor identify you as the student that is in not just a CR W 420 course but actually the CR W 420 course that he or she has at 4:00 p.m. that day versus the one she has at 11:00 a.m. so this is just something that really helps a professor out and it definitely goes a long way so we're gonna hit enter and now is the date this is something I see the students do incorrectly more often than anything else so for MLA format there's a very specific way to enter the date and to do that you want it hit the day first space a month space and the year so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna hit space and up here you're going to see some options for how your text is centered or aligned on the page so this one here is showing that it's Center we want to Center our title so notice when I hit this key it it shoots my cursor all the way over to the center of the page and that's where we want our title if you can't think of a title right away just put something in its place that way you'll remember that you need to enter a title next you can hit enter and then we can go back up here and we went up make sure we're aligning to the left and notice how the cursor goes all the way back to the left all right so now we're ready to start typing our essay and in order to get started here you want to make sure that we're indenting each paragraph so you can do that by hitting the tab key on your keyboard notice how that pushes me forward about a half inch so you want to make sure that every paragraph you start is indented 1/2 inch this will let your professor know and you've begun a new thoughts or a new point in your essay it just keeps things looking clean and organized so at this point we can begin typing notice once I get to the next line we have these beautiful double spacing happening in spirit which is fantastic because it keeps the professor of a lot of room to take notes while they're grading your essay just make sure I say look very clean are you two so it looks like we have everything set up for your essay and you're ready to start typing your actual content