Student Name
Professor’s Name
English Course#-Section
Date essay is due
Interesting Title
	The first line of your paper should start here. Do not place any extra spacing between the title and the first line of the essay. Do not use a title page. All papers should be written in Times New Roman font, size 12. Indent the first line of every paragraph. Use the Insert Header option to include your last name and the page number at the top of each page.
	Double space all papers. Do not put any extra spaces between paragraphs. Use spell-check and make corrections before submitting your essays. Find the word-counting feature in your word-processing program and make sure each essay fulfills the required number of words. In Word, each page averages roughly 250 words using Times New Roman 12 point font. If your paper is required to be 4 pages, it is roughly 1000 words. When the assignment requires in text citations, please make sure that you include a Works Cited page, properly formatted in MLA.
	For answers to any other questions about MLA formatting, please review the handbook, and Purdue’s Online Writing Lab. If you choose, you can use this file as a template by selecting File, Save-As, and saving it to your computer. 

Work/s<<WORK FOR ONE, WORKS FOR MULTIPLE Cited
Your works cited entries go here, usually starting with the last name of the writer.  Use the hanging indent to separate the entries from each other. A shortcut for this in Word is to go to the beginning of the citation (last name?) and pressing ctrl+t.  In other programs, search for “how to use hanging indent” on the web.
Note there are no extra spaces and, just as in the essay itself, there’s a header at the top of the page and everything is double spaced.
For specifics on how to format works cited entries, see your composition handbook or Purdue’s Online Writing Lab and follow the example for your particular source (Work in an Anthology; Essay from a Database; Book, etc.).