Basic mla 10 things to check for before you submit your essay1.

1. Basic MLA: 10 things to check for before you submit your
essay
1. Set the spacing to “double,” with no extra spaces between
lines and paragraphs.
2. Set the margins to 1-inch.
3. Left-justify the paper, meaning, the left margin is straight
and the right margin is jagged (see below for an example).
4. Use 12-point, Times New Roman font.
5. Include a heading that is located at the left margin—here is
how it should look:
John Doe
Prof. Kolkmeyer
English 30
21 May 2020
6. Your title should be centered and it should be original
Indent to show the start of a new paragraph. Then continue all
the way to the left margin and it will go to the next line
automatically. Only hit the “return” key when starting you are
starting a new paragraph.
Like this. The indentation here indicates the start of a new
paragraph. Now, like in the prior paragraph, you continue to
type until the end of the line and automatically drops to the next
line when it reaches the end, and so on…

2. 7. Use “quotation marks” for article, essay, chapter, interview
titles titles (see the sample paragraph below).
8. In-text quoting and citations should not clutter up the paper.
Here’s an example of a paragraph that might appear in the body
of the essay. Notice that page number references are in
(parenthesis), not used in the signal phrase. The latter should
indicate the context and/or speaker. All quotes should have
signal phrases, but there are options:
Imagine education today without a computer. Initially, it seems
this will create an unfair advantage, with those who have access
to computers having more advantage over those who do not
have access. Neil Postman, in 1992, points out this future in
“The Judgment of Thamus,” an argument for being skeptical
about how quick we are to embrace new innovations. Postman
claims that the printed word and orality had reached a workable
compromise in the four centuries that followed the invention of
the printing press. However, at the onset of computers in the
classroom becoming the norm when he wrote this piece,
Postman asks, “Now comes the computer, carrying anew the
banner of private learning and individual problem-solving. Will
the widespread use of computers in the classroom defeat once
and for all the claims of communal speech? Will the computer
raise egocentrism to the status of a virtue?” (11). On the
surface, yes; what Postman predicts in 1992 has happened, but
“communal speech,” is different today, and if this is
understood, a new compromise can be reached.

3. 9. Here’s what a Works Cited page should look like with three
sources from the class materials cited in a paper:
Works Cited
Chaplin, Charlie, director. Modern Times. United Artists, 1936.
Kelly, Kevin. Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale. “Interview with
the Luddite.” Wired, 6 Jan. 1995,
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/saleskelly/. Accessed 23 June
2020.
Postman, Neil. “The Judgment of Thamus.” Technopoly: The
Surrender of Culture to
Technology, Knopf, 1992, pp. 1-12,
https://rws511.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/68739355/Postman_t ha
mus.pdf. Accessed 16
Aug. 2020.
10. If you have questions, go to the Purdue OWL website’s
“MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” The “MLA In-text
Citations: The Basics,” “MLA Formatting Quotations,” and the
“Sample MLA Paper” are useful to check out. Here’s the link to
the page with the drop-down menu that includes the latter:

4. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla
_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.h
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Surveillance and privacy on the
internet
by Wisline Fontilus
Submission date: 05-Feb-2021 07:25PM (UTC-0500)
Submission ID: 1502755777
File name: essay2_draft_2.docx (22.41K)
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FINAL GRADE
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Surveillance and privacy on the internet
GRADEMARK REPORT
GENERAL COMMENTS
Instructor
Hi, Wisline. You've made changes in the essay and the
Chen article seems like a useful addition. And it is still
apparent that you are making the point that our privacy
is becoming more and more compromised with the new
technologies in use and the fact that old data never

6. seems to die. However, as noted here and on the prior
draft, work is still needed to introduce and integrate
sources effectively. You give Tolentino's chapter title
and her full name, but do not do this with the other
sources. And, there is a brief attempt to tell the reader
what her chapter covers, but this doesn't happen with
the other authors. If we can somehow discuss this this
week, it might help. Otherwise, please see the
examples I give in the "Basic MLA" handout and other
handouts in Course Information in BB and the Purdue
OWL website for help with this going into the 3rd draft,
which will be the final draft of this essay in your
portfolio.
PAGE 1
Comment 1
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Comment 2
See the comments on the prior draft. This could still change.
They are 2 issues, or surveillance has
raised the issue of privacy invasion.
Comment 3
Are you asking a question here? The sentence it is in didn't start
this way. Use a period after
"platforms" and then a question mark after "data" here.
Comment 4
You ask 2 questions, it seems. Perhaps change is needed to ask
only one.

7. Comment 5
but rather
Comment 6
This still needs work to be introduced and integrated
effectively. See the comments on draft 1 still.
Tolentino is quoting Darcy DiNucci, so this should be
represented accurately. You'll need more
sentences to both introduce the text well and set up the
quotations that you want to use here.
PAGE 2
Comment 7
But what exactly is in Herrman's piece that this is a reference
to? His text still needs to be introduced
and integrated effectively as well.
Comment 8
This is still the wrong word to use.
Comment 9
The quotation given does not illustrate what you say Tolenti no
does. In addition to handing her text
better here, Herrman is also mentioned again at the end, but the
reader has no sense of who this is--
what the title is of his article and what it is about. The reader
needs this to be able to follow what you

8. give in the paper easier.
Comment 10
This should be "MySpace." Also, is this discussion of what is in
Herrman's piece?
Comment 11
Whose words are these? Chen's? They need to be in quotation
marks. Also, as with Tolentino and
Herrman, his text needs to be introduced to the reader: Title,
author's name, and what his piece is
about , briefly.
Comment 12
But this, then, would be a good thing, no? If the "user" is the
one for whom this "operates on behalf
of," then what is the issue now? Do you mean to say that it
"supposedly" does this?
Comment 13
What do you mean here? Does Chen say that the military or
medical personnel use this for security
reasons?
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Comment 14

9. This is better, but attention to detail is needed with punctuation
and other things here. For example:
Herrman, John. "What ... MySpace?" snd
His last name comes first on this page and be accurate with the
spelling of it. Also, "MySpace" is one
word with capitalized letters in it and there is a question mark
in the title. In the text of your essay,
this needs to change too.
There are other things to change with each of the texts you list,
so see the examples given in
multiple handouts in Course Information for what to look for
and fix here.
Surveillance and privacy on the internetby Wisline
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REPORTFINAL GRADEGENERAL COMMENTSInstructor