Content/Formatting

[story645]

Going by the poll results, the essays will be dealing with the Harry Potter books. You can write about anything you want: characterization, tone, mechanics of the verse, symbolism, structure, plot, any aspect of the books is fair game.

Format:1. Standard academic essay- you have to have an introduction, thesis, supporting paragraphs, and a

Comments

[lunar_endeavor]

All this sounds fine; I might still have MLA format memorized. (Sheesh.) So, sounds good!

[redcoast]

Footnoting or endnoting?

[story645]

Endnoting is cleaner for an online posting.

[redcoast]

True. I've never done MLA formatting with HTML before. It sounds like a fun challenge.

[kaskait]

Well, I haven't completed an essay in MLA format in years. It takes a long time to even complete the scribblings I do. I don't think I want to relearn the MLA on top of it all.

I will pull out and watch for while. Then I will see what I can do.

[story645]

You don't need to do the whole essay in MLA, just the citations. That's pure copy and replace, author's name first, then title, then publishers. Real easy.

[kaskait]

Okay. That sounds good.

I was having nightmare flashbacks to my AP English class and its witchy, bitchy teacher. That was bad times, bad times. Even though I got a 5 score on the test. It got me out of English in Brooklyn College but it was sheer hell. She was always complaining about my bad formatting.

[story645]

*lol* No I promise not to be that evil. Just what #1 says. Your thesis can even be anywhere you want in the essay.

[story645]

*lol* Most people intuitively do this stuff, and if you're not sure, run it by a beta. Don't worry, this is just so that we have real essays, it really isn't as formal as it sounds.
(As the maintainer for this com, I volunteer myself for the job for anyone who needs it.)

Yeah, I'm just saying MLA for citation, so it's basically a template to follow if you use outside sources or quote from the books.

*don't worry, really not that scary*