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You can use this guide and the list below as a checklist to follow as you format your essays in Google Docs.  \nYour paper is in MLA format if it:  \n□ has 1 inch margins on all sides  \n□ is typed in a legible (easily readable) font—like Times New Roman, Calibri, or Cambria  \n□ is entirely in font size 12  \n□ is double-spaced throughout the entire document  \n□ begins every paragraph with an indentation  \n□ includes a header with your last name/surname and page numbers on the right side  \n□ begins the first page with your name, the class information & date on the left side  \n□ has a title centered on the first page before the essay begins  \n□ includes a Works Cited page at the end of the essay with alphabetized MLA citations  \nYou have two options available to you when it comes to writing an MLA formatted paper in Google Docs. One is to format your paper yourself in a blank Google Doc, using the steps you will find on this handout. The other is to use a template provided by Google Docs which has all the correct MLA formatting already set up for you. The template makes things very easy! But it’s also good to learn how to do some of the formatting yourself.  \nTo access the template from your Edmonds CC gmail account (@[edmail.edcc.edu](edmail.edcc.edu)), you need to be logged in to your Edmail account. Go to Google Docs and instead of clicking to start a Blank document, look above to where it says Template Gallery. Click on Template Gallery, make sure that General is selected, and in the Education section, find the MLA Report template. Click on that and a new Google Doc will open; the new Doc will have information already typed that you will then replace with your own text, keeping the same formatting.  \nThe first addition you will have to make is typing your own last name/surname in the header, which you can do by clicking next to the page number, placing your cursor in front of the page number, and typing your last name/surname with one space after it before the page number. When you’re finished, click anywhere outside the header and it will be set and saved.  \nThe template document has a lot of Latin text to show different formatting options for papers with sections and subsections. If your paper is meant to have sections, these will be useful. If not, ignore all of the formatting the template shows in the “body” of the paper after the first introductory paragraph. Skip down to the Works Cited and use that as a guide for your citations. You will probably still want to refer to the Hanging Indents section of this handout to format your citations properly.  \nEdmonds CC Writing Center | MUK 113 MLA Formatting: Google Docs  \n[425.640.1750 |](425.640.1750 | www.edcc.edu/lsc)[ ](425.640.1750 | www.edcc.edu/lsc)[www.edcc.edu/lsc](425.640.1750 | www.edcc.edu/lsc)  \nMargins  \nGoogle Docs defaults to setting 1 inch margins on all sides of a document. Unless you’ve changed your default settings before, every Google Doc you begin should have the correct margins. But, you can check this by clicking on File in the menu bar, and then clicking on Page setup from the menu that pops up (it’s near the bottom) . This will open a dialog box with information about the file’s margins. If you see anything other than 1 in any of the boxes under Margins, change them all to 1.  \nFont and Size  \nThe traditional font used in MLA formatted papers is Times New Roman and sometimes instructors will require this font. 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