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Your Own, Original Title Goes Here: Don’t Forget to Remove the HighlightIt would likely be a good idea for your research paper, that after you create a topic/thesis here, and possibly a brief working introduction of your intentions, that you begin an outline on the next page. This should be something that you continually tweak as you work on your draft below. Feel free to use whatever format that you want, but the one below is a standard MLA format.
This is a standard paragraph that is indented. If you hit the return, you will create a new paragraph that will also be indented.
When you have a long direct quote that is more than three lines, instead of using quotations around the quote, most writers use
a BLOCK quote, used for long direct quotes from outside sources. Use sparingly and only when the original quote exceeds three lines of text in your paper; this is not a good example because it is really only three lines of text. Delete this if you are not using it!
A new paragraph requires an indent. Following this paragraph will be a page break that is used to separate the main essay from supplemental material, usually a works cited page. Make sure that when incorporating outside sources into your paper that you properly cite the work in text as well, ideally through the use of signal phrases.
Working Outline
I. Initial Proposal
A. Supporting argument (hit tab to indent, or shft+tab to decrease indent/or use menu above)
1. Supportive reference
a. Specific quote etc.
b. Follow-up argument
2. Support
3. Support
B. Main Argument
II. Background Information
A. Support
1. Sub-support
a. Detail
b. Detail
(1) Quote
(2) Follow-up
2. Sub-support
B. Support
C. Support
D. Support
III. Theoretical Argument etc.
A. Hill sample quote, paraphrase, and integration about female heroes
1. Elizabeth Hills complains that although “these powerfully transgressive characters open up interesting questions about the fluidity of gendered identities and changing popular cinematic representations of women, action heroines are often described within feminist film theory as ‘pseudo males’ or as being not ‘really’ women.” (qtd. in Brown 51)
a. Brown, Jeffrey. “Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books.” Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, edited by Sherrie A. Inness, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 47-74.
2. Hills goes on to argue that “one of the reasons why action heroines have been difficult to conceptualize as heroic female characters is the binaristic logic of the theoretical models on which a number of feminist theorists have relied. For example, feminists working within the dominant model of psychoanalysis have had extremely limited spaces within which to discuss the transformative and transgressive potential of the action heroine. This is because psychoanalytic accounts, which theorize sexual difference within the framework of linked binary oppositions (active male/passive female), necessarily position normative female subjectivity as passive or in terms of lack. From this perspective, active and aggressive women in the cinema can only be seen as phallic, unnatural or ‘figuratively male.'”
a. Hills, Elizabeth. “From ‘Figurative Males’ to Action Heroines: Further Thoughts on Active Women in the Cinema.” Screen, vol. 40, no. 1, 1 Mar. 1999, pp. 38-50. Oxford Academic, doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1093/screen/40.1.38. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018.
(1) Or
b. Hills, Elizabeth. “From ‘Figurative Males’ to Action Heroines: Further Thoughts on Active Women in the Cinema.” Screen, vol. 40, no. 1, 1 Mar. 1999, pp. 38-50. Semantic Scholar, pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2f8e/c75aef3594adb659954180653 c83caf33172.pdf. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018.
IV. Sample formal analysis
V. Cultural context
VI. Historical context
VII. Audience expectation
VIII. Genre
IX. Film History etc.
Works Cited
Ace, Bob. This is an example of a hanging indent used mostly for works cited or bibliography entries.
Casey, Donna. This is an example of a second works cited or bibliography entry that is in alphabetical order (the word “second” comes after the word “hanging”). Usually you are organizing works cited by the last name of the authors.
Hills, Elizabeth. “From ‘Figurative Males’ to Action Heroines: Further Thoughts on Active Women in the Cinema.” Screen, vol. 40, no. 1, 1 Mar. 1999, pp. 38-50. Oxford Academic, doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1093/screen/40.1.38. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018.
If you have inadvertently messed up formatting of “hanging indents,” do NOT try to fix this by hitting spaces and tabs. It will never format correctly in Turnitin. Instead, format in Word using the paragraph settings.
In Word Online, which is by far the easiest, 1) Place your cursor before any text where you want to have a hanging indent, 2) In the “Home” menu, click on the arrow in the “Paragraph” section to expand the menu, 3) Under Indentation, use the Special pull-down menu to select hanging indent, and 5) Make sure you select 0.5″ in the By menu (this is the default setting). This process should more or less work on a Windows computer in Word as well.
In Word on your computer, you can also turn on the “Ruler” under the View menu, then drag the lower box with arrow over .5” and then drag the top arrow back .5” to give you a hanging indent.
Or using your mouse you can 1) Place your cursor at the beginning of your second line, before any text, 2) Right click your mouse, 3) Select Paragraph from the resulting pop up menu, 4) Under Indentation, use the Special pull-down menu to select hanging indent, and 5) Use the By menu to select 0.5″
Or on Word for Mac you can 1) Place your cursor before any text where you want to have a hanging indent, 2) Click on the “Format” menu at the top of the screen, 3) Select “Paragraph” from the resulting drop-down menu, 4) Under Indentation, use the Special pull-down menu to select hanging indent, and 5) Use the By menu to select 0.5″
Finally, you CAN format and use the “References” menu to insert citations, but managing this feature is beyond the scope of this class, so you are on your own for figuring this out. Do NOT use the MLA format feature because it uses the OLD version of MLA.