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Covers naming and customizing fields such as author, professor, subject, submission date, and paper title, replacing placeholder text with the actual content. Explains key paragraph-style adjustments for long quotations and Works Cited entries, including indentation and hanging indents. 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To minimize confusion and to get the file in the right place , we’re going to enter by starting with Google Drive.  \n1. Open your Google Drive and navigate to the folder where you would like this file to land. When you open Google Docs it will put the file here by default.  \n◦ Click the “Tic-Tac-Toe” pattern in the upper right. (It’s really called a “waffle.”)  \n◦ Click the colored triangle above the word Drive.  \n◦ Double-click the name of the folder where your document should land.  \n2. Click the colored plus sign in the upper left. It’s in an oval with the word New.  \n3. Find the words Google Docs and click the right caret >  \n4. Choose From a template.  \n5. Double-click the Report MLA template.  \n6. Google has already automatically saved your document under the title “Report.” You want abetter title, so double-click the word “Report” in the upper left and choose a title that will help you find this document in the future. (You can close that advertisement.)  \n7. Double-click on the left of the page number and type your own last name , followed by a space.  \n8. Triple-click the name “Your Name” on the left and type in your own name (first and last) .  \n9. Triple-click “Professor Name” and type the name of your teacher.  \n10. Triple-click “Subject Name” and type in the name of your course (for example , English 100-A) .  \n11. Triple-click “04 September 20XX” and type the date this paper will be submitted.  \n12. Triple-click “Title of Your Report” and type the title of your paper.  \n13. Now you need to delete all that “Lorem ipsum” gibberish and begin typing your paper.  \n◦ The program will automatically figure out line endings and page endings , and will place the page number at the top of each new page.  \nDealing with paragraph styles  \nThe paragraph styles available in Google Docs are very limited , so sometimes you need to make some manual adjustments. (This is where users of MS Word and Apple Pages have a great  \nadvantage.) When Google made the “Report MLA” template, they specified Normal text , then fixed the first line indent.  \nFor our writing , almost everything will be Normal text (which means 12 point Times New Roman text, double-spaced, and a ½ inch first line indent) . Go ahead and delete all that “Lorem ipsum” gibberish, then type your paper. Google Docs will save it automatically as you go.  \nThere are two special instances when you need to modify the paragraph formatting you get with Normal text:  \n1. For a long quotation (4+ lines) , make the quote a paragraph of its own, then drop the “Format”menu down to “Align & indent,” then choose “Indentation options.”Choose Left = 0.5 , Right =  \n0 , Special indent = None. (Type this paragraph, then type the next, and go back to format it so the following paragraph doesn’t pick up the indent.)  \n2. For a Works Cited entry (see below) , choose Left = 0 , Right = 0 , Special indent = Hanging.  \nFormatting a Works Cited page  \n1. A Works Cited page needs to be a new sheet of paper. Put your cursor at the end of your text, then drop the Insert menu down to Break !Page Break  \n2. Type the words Works Cited (or if you are making an APA paper for someone else , type References) .  \n3. Type your first entry.  \n4. Go back to your title (Works Cited) and click the “center” icon.  \n5. Now click somewhere in your first Works Cited entry and follow the instructions above (item 2c) .  \nDownloadingfor Blackboard  \n1. Drop the “File”menu down, and choose Download !Microsoft Word (.docx).  \n◦ You might see two file drop-downs. You want the lower one, just below the name of this file.  \n2. The file should land in your “Downloads” folder. 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