Is it in MLA?
All papers should be written in Size 12 Times New Roman font.
Yes!
'The problem is this... You are too implicated in Western civilization.'
Ali from "My Son the Fanatic"
"She remembered waiting outside the junior high in the bitter cold, the snow falling harder, as she counted over and over to two hundred, promising herself each time that when she reached two hundred she would begin the long walk back—"
"Puppy"
Bonus: Who is this passage referring to?
Ali to Bettina from "My Son the Fanatic":
"Who are you to ask me these questions?"
Ad Hominem
In the short story, Woman Hollering Creek, author Sandra Cisneros...
No! Short stories are placed in quotes. Novels and other full length books are written in italics.
"Did you ever notice... how nothing around here is named after a woman? Really. Unless she's the Virgin. I guess you're only famous if you're a virgin."
Felice from "Woman Hollering Creek"
"On the way home the boy sat in the back of the taxi, as if he were a customer."
"My Son the Fanatic"
Jing-mei to her mother in "Two Kinds"
"I'm not going to play anymore," I said nonchalantly. "Why should I? I'm not a genius."
Dogmatism
Either/Or
(Vonnegut Page 5)
No! "Page" is not necessary.
(Vonnegut 5)
"The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile."
Jing-mei from "Two Kinds"
"I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, and I tried each one on for size."
"Two Kinds"
Sharon to Frank in "The Rumor"
"But why would such a rumor come out of thin air? Doesn't there have to be something?"
Faulty Causality
Chopin, Kate. "Desiree's Baby." The Kate Chopin International Society, Jan. 2021, https://www.katechopin.org/desirees-baby-text/
Yes!
Last name, First name. "Short Story Title." Publisher, Mon. Year, https://
“Mom, remember when Goochie was a puppy?”
Josh from "Puppy"
"Who the hell can tell a Hiroshige from a Hokusai?"
"The Rumor"
Cleófilas to Felice in "Woman Hollering Creek"
"A pickup, mind you, but when Cleófilas asked if it was her husband's, she said she didn't have a husband."
Hasty Generalization
The header on the first page should have only the student's Last Name.
No! The header of the first page should have the student's last name and page number starting with 1.
"Everybody. Books. Proust. People aren't that simple."
Frank from "The Rumor"
"This town with its silly pride for a bronze pecan the size of a baby carriage in front of the city hall."
"Woman Hollering Creek"
From "Puppy"
"Plus, he’d been raised on a farm, or near a farm anyways, and anybody raised on a farm knew that you had to do what you had to do in terms of sick animals or extra animals—the pup being not sick, just extra."
Equivocation