MLA Format
Project 1 Requirements
The Writing Process
Revision
100

This part of your essay should be centered in the essay, and not bolded, underlined, or increased in font size

What is a title?

100

This is the word count requirement for Project 1. 

What are 900 words?

100

This is the process in which you “think up” more ideas than you probably will use in the final essay. 

What is brainstorming?

100
This category of revision deals with big picture concerns that have a cascading effect on the rest of the essay. 

What is Global Revision?

200
The page numbers in your essay should be located here.

Where is the top right hand corner?

200

These should not be used in your essay, as you do not need to cite any information. 

What are outside sources?

200

This can be described as a promise that the writer makes to the reader as to what their claim on the topic at hand is. 

What is the thesis statement?

200

This category of revision focuses on paragraph-level concerns. 

What is Local Revision?

300

The margins in your essay, on all sides, should be set to this measurement.

What are 1 inch margins?

300

This part of your essay should share what you believe to be the founding principle or claim for your relationship to literacy and language.

What is your thesis statement?

300

This type of language, which is the way we talk, is guided by norms and is ‘correct’ however
it may function based off our location, culture, or abilities, but is a type of language we should largely avoid in academic essays. 

What is conversational language?
300

This category of revision is equivalent to proof-reading, and includes grammatical and spelling concerns. 

What is Surface revision?

400

This is the order in which the heading information should be completed on your page:

1. Your name

2. Instructor name 

3. ??????

4. Date

What is the course code?

i.e. Eng-111-2203 or Eng-111-2204

400

Your essay should not include any use of this 'person', which utilizes you, your, our, and we.

What is second person?

400

Writing is this sort of process, meaning it works in cycles and is a constant process of improvement
and practice. 

What is recursive?

400

This is the process of reverse-engineering an essay to its structural components to see how it develops.

What is a reverse outline?