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MLA style does not require a

Last name 1

title page or outline, but

some professors require one

Student X. Name

or both. An outline sample

is at the end of this paper. If

Professor Smith

required, format a title page

according to the instructions

English 101

you teacher has given.

29 September 2015

Note each page will have

your last name followed by a

The Asian Longhorned Beetle:

space and page number,

right-justified.

Another Alien Among Us

Type your name, instructor’s

The latest “alien” to invade the United States is an inch-long, shiny,

name, course number, and

the date on separate lines,

black beetle with white (or yellow) spots on its back. It is called the “starry

double-spacing.

sky beetle” in its native China, and the Asian longhorned beetle here in the

Center the title but do not

underline, italicize, use all

United States, and it has, according to entomologists quoted in The New

capitals, or quotation marks.

York Times, the potential for creating the “worst ecological disaster North

For an informative paper,

use the introduction to

American forests have ever seen” (Woodsen 7). An article by Milius in

emphasize the

newsworthiness and

Science News also quotes Richard Hoebeke, an entomologist and assistant

importance of the topic.

curator of Cornell University’s insect collection, as saying that this

Observe that the source of

this information is given both

infestation of the beetle could “easily be on the same level as the gypsy

in a signal phrase (quoted in

The New York Times) and

moth and the Mediterranean fruit fly.” Already 5,000 hardwood trees in the

in parentheses at the end

(Woodsen). Note also that

New York City area, and nearly 1,500 in the Chicago environs, have been

the period comes after the

parenthesis.

destroyed since the beetle was first identified in this country in 1996, and

If you give the author’s name

beetles have been found in over 20 other cities in the United States

in the signal phrase (An

article by Milius), you don’t

(Woodsen 7). With no natural enemies here in this country, and no known

need to give it again at the

end of the sentence.

legal pesticide to curb its spread, the beetle and many scientists are engaged

This paragraph begins with

in biological warfare.

a topic sentence that reveals

the paragraph’s subject—the

To understand why the beetle is causing so much concern requires

biology of the beetle.

understanding its biology. The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) belongs to

To introduce abbreviations,

use the term in full and then

the family of longhorned beetle, Cerambycidae, and derives its names from

put the abbreviation in

capitals enclosed in

the exceptionally long antennae. Its life begins as a small egg, the size of a

parentheses.

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