Student 1
Joe Student
Mrs. Burch
Adv. English I Per. 2
23 September 2008
Irony in “The Most Dangerous Game”
(Use quotation marks around the title of a work when it referring to it in your title, but do not use quotation marks or underlining; bold, italicized, or larger font; or Word Art in your title)
Directions for MLA format :
Set your computer for 12 point, Times New Roman font.
Set the margins to 1” on all sides. Warning: the default setting is usually 1 ½” left and right
Click on “File”
Highlight “Page Setup”
Set all margins: left, right, top, bottom to 1”
Click on OK
Type your last name on the right side of the header:
If you have Microsoft Word, click on the View tab in the tool bar.
Scroll down and highlight header and footer.
Click on the right alignment icon on your tool bar (it is to the right of the centering icon).
Type your last name and push the space bar once.
Click on the icon in the tool bar that looks like a piece of paper with # on it. It says, “insert page number.” DO NOT type in a page number.
Exit “Header Footer”
Set the computer to automatically double space:
Click on the format tab on your tool bar.
Scroll down to paragraph and find where it says line spacing.
Click on the arrow that points down and highlight double spacing.
Click on OK
Type your heading:
Align left
Type your name and hit enter once
Type my name and hit enter once
Type Adv. English I per.____ and hit enter once
Type the date—day, month,year without punctuation unless you abbreviate the month (optional) and hit enter once
Type the title of your paper:
Align center
Type the title of your paper following rules for capitalization (first, last, and important words) and hit enter once
Type your essay
Align left
Indent ½” or 5-7 spaces
Begin typing.
Do not hit enter again until you reach the end of a paragraph then hit enter only once
Indent and type the second paragraph
Continue this process to the end of your paper.
Directions for parenthetical documentation:
Concrete details in response to literature—whether quotes, paraphrases, or summaries—must be followed by parenthetical documentation that cites the source of the fact you are using.
Quotes from the text:
“The menacing look in his eyes did not change. The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant were a statue” (Connell 71).
Note: punctuation goes outside of the parentheses following the parenthetical documentation.
Dialogue quoted from the text:
“In a cultivated voice marked by a slight accent that gave it added precision and deliberateness, he said: ‘It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celbrated hunter, to my home’” (Connell 71).
When you have already used the author’s name in your concrete detail:
Connell describes the jungle Rainsford faces as a “tangle of trees and underbrush” and as “an unbroken front of snarled and ragged jungle” (70).