Sample Mla Research Paper - "Toward A Recovery Of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks" Page 2

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conclude with a fourth section that discusses the importance of expanding this particular
Use
personal
pronouns (I,
project. I also include an appendix after the Works Cited that contains images of the three
we, us,
etc.) at
handbooks I examined. Before I can begin the examination of the three handbooks,
your
instructor’s
discretion.
however, I need to provide an historical context in which the books were written, and it is
When using headings in
The headings used here follow an A-, B-, C-
to this that I now turn.
MLA, title the main
level system to break the text into smaller
sections (B-level
sections. The different levels help organize
Headers,
headers) in a different
the paper and maintain consistency in the
though not
style font than the
paper’s organization. You may come up with
required by
paper’s title, e.g., in
your own headings as long as they are
H
C
ISTORICAL
ONTEXT
MLA style,
small caps.
consistent.
help the
The
overall
paragraph
The nineteenth century saw many changes to daily American life with an increase in
structure
after the B-
and
level
organiza-
population, improved methods of transportation, developments in technology, and the
headers
tion of a
start flush
paper. Use
left after
rise in the importance of science. These events impacted all aspects of nineteenth century
them at
the
your
headings.
instructor’s
American life, most significantly those involved in slavery and the Civil War, but a large
discretion
to help
part of American life was affected, a part that is quite often taken for granted: the life of
your reader
follow your
ideas.
the American farmer.
Population and Technological Changes. One of the biggest changes, as seen in
Use another
style, e.g.,
nineteenth century America’s census reports, is the dramatic increase in population. The
italics, to
differen-
tiate the C-
If there is a
1820 census reported that over 10 million people were living in America; of those 10
level
gramma-
headers
tical,
from the B-
million, over 2 million were engaged in agriculture. Ten years prior to that, the 1810
mechanical,
level
or spelling
headers.
error in the
census reported over 7 million people were living in the states; there was no category for
The
text you
paragraph
are citing,
continues
people engaged in agriculture. In this ten-year time span, then, agriculture experienced
type the
directly
quote as it
after the
appears.
significant improvements and changes that enhanced its importance in American life.
header.
Follow the
quote with
“[sic].”
One of these improvements was the developments of canals and steamboats,
which allowed farmers to “sell what has previously been unsalable [sic]” and resulted in a
“substantial increase in [a farmer’s] ability to earn income” (Danhof 5). This

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