Mla guide 1 Your name the professor ? s name the course number and the date of the paper are doublespaced in -point Times New Roman font Dates in MLA are written in this order day month and year The introductory paragraph or introduction should set the co

Your name the professor ? s name the course number and the date of the paper are doublespaced in -point Times New Roman font Dates in MLA are written in this order day month and year The introductory paragraph or introduction should set the context for the rest of the paper Tell your readers why you are writing and why your topic is important If your paper is long you may want to write about how your paper is organized This will help your readers follow your ideas Angeli Elizabeth L Angeli Professor Patricia Sullivan English February Green text boxes contain explanations of MLA style guidelines Blue boxes contain directions for writing and citing in MLA style Page numbers begin on and with page Type your name next to the page number so that it appears on every page Toward a Recovery of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks While researching texts written about nineteenth century farming I found a few authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming particularly agricultural journals newspapers pamphlets and brochures These authors often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by Titles are centered and written in -point Times New Roman font The title is not bolded underlined or italicized discussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was published see Demaree for example However while these authors discuss journals newspapers pamphlets and brochures I could not ?nd much discussion about another important source of farming knowledge farming handbooks My goal in this paper is to The thesis statement usually is the last sentence of the introduction bring this source into the agricultural literature discussion by connecting three agricultural handbooks from the nineteenth century with nineteenth century agricultural history To achieve this goal I have organized my paper into four main sections two of which have sub-sections In the ?rst section I provide an account of three important events in nineteenth century agricultural history population and technological changes The thesis is a clear position that you will support and develop throughout your paper This sentence guides or controls your paper the distribution of scienti ?c new knowledge and farming ? s in uence on education In the second section I discuss three nineteenth century farming handbooks in connection with the important events described in the ?rst section I end my paper with a third section that o ?ers research questions that could be answered in future versions of this paper and MLA requires double-spacing throughout a document do not single-space any part of the document CAngeli The paragraph after the Blevel headers start ush left after the headings conclude with a fourth section that discusses the importance of expanding this particular project I also include an appendix after the Works Cited that contains images of the three handbooks I examined Before I can begin the examination of the three handbooks however I need to provide an historical context in which the books were written

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