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Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model.

From Prentice Hall, a brief guide on proofreader's marks. Note that I use abbreviated Six Traits terms to focus on a given quality of your writing (I=Ideas, ORG=Organization, WC=Word Choice, SF=Sentence Fluency, VOI=Voice, and CON=Conventions). A check mark during a passage denotes a positive writing quality and may be followed by a proofreader mark. This lets you know what you're doing well, according to my point-of-view.

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.