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Formatting

Assignment Name:

• Formatting

Purpose:

• To learn the correct format of a paper.
• To follow the course rules for submitting assignments.

Process:

1. Open Word
   • As an EFSC student, you have free access to download the whole Office suite, including Word
   • You can find directions on downloading Office here
2. Open, copy, and paste the following text into Word.
• Fall 2025 comp 1 215
• The text is called Lorem Ipsum, a fake Latin text used to populate websites during development.
3. Follow the MLA Criteria, listed below, to format the paper.
4. Scrutinize every word, style, and punctuation in the Works Cited page to make sure yours is exactly like the example below.
• See below for images of what a formatted paper should look like.
5. Once the paper is formatted, submit the paper following the protocols for submitting assignments.

MLA Format Criteria:

• Font-type: Times New Roman
• Font-Size: only 12 point
• Indents: first line of each paragraph of the body indents 1/2" (not five space bar clicks)
• Spacing: Double space every line in the paper (no more, no less).
• Word sets extra spacing after paragraphs; highlight all, right click, choose paragraphs,and set Spacing after Paragraphs to zero.
• Margins: 1" from all sides
• No Bold
• No Underlines
• No exclamation marks--EVER!!!!!!!!

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How to format the Works Cited page