How to Make a Cover Page in MLA Style

Making a cover page in MLA style might be required for writing about literature, language and humanities documents during school. MLA stands for the Modern Language Association, which has developed formatting guidelines for how papers should be written within numerous types of documents, such as magazines and newspapers. The cover page includes such information as the document's title, the author's name, the teacher and course's name, as well as the date. You can create a MLA cover page that will meet the formatting guidelines that are being requested in less than five minutes.

Things You'll Need

  • Text editor
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Instructions

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      Open a text editor, such as Word, Open Office or Ability Office. Create a new document. Double-click the program's icon that is located on your computer's desktop or go to "Start," " All Programs," then choose the text-editing program from the list that appears on the left of your screen. Click "File," "New," then select "Text Document" to open a document file.

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      Enter the title of the document. Press the "Enter" key on your computer keyboard for a total of 20 times. This places the cursor on line 21. Hover your mouse over the buttons to have a dialog box pop up indicating which button is the center alignment button, then click it. The center alignment button in most text-editor programs is located on the toolbar at the top of the screen. Capitalize the first letter of each word in the title.

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      Enter your name onto the document. Hit the "Enter" button 20 more times, then click the right-alignment button that is directly next to the center-alignment button on the toolbar. This takes you to line 41 of the cover page. Type your name using the keys on the computer keyboard. Press "Enter."

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      Enter the teacher's name with the computer keyboard. Press the "Enter" key.

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      Enter the name of the course for which the document is being written, then press the "Enter" key. Each time you press the "Enter" key, the cursor automatically skips to the next line in the document.

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      Enter the current date into the document. Spell out the full month, type in the number of the day followed by a comma, then the year. For example: March 5, 2014.

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      Save the document to your hard drive. Click the "File" button in the top left corner of the screen, then select "Save As." Enter the name of the document and press "Enter."

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