MLA Format Sample Paper, with Cover Page and Outline

by Stephen on October 2, 2012 · 23 comments

Here is a sample paper in MLA format that has both the cover page and the outline pages. This paper has 10 pages so if you are under a slow Internet connection, please wait a few seconds for all of the pages to load. This paper is current with the latest MLA manual.

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Title Page

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Outline Page 1

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Outline Page 2

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Page 1

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Page 2

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Page 3

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Page 4

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Page 5

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MLA Format Sample Paper, Works Cited

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MLA Format Sample Paper, End of Sample Paper.

Source:

– Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

MLA Format Guidelines:
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1 Lebrooks April 15, 2013 at 10:00 am

Thanks for the mla sample paper.

2 Angie Pan May 1, 2013 at 11:45 pm

I was trying to format my cover page in MLA. On the page about the cover page it says to have the university name at the top, the title 1/3 down, and the name, course/teacher/date information at the bottom. In the sample, there is no university name at the top, the title is 1/3 down, the name is in the middle of the page, and the course/teacher/date information at the bottom. The discrepancies are confusing and I suggest correcting this. Otherwise the site was very helpful.

3 Stephen May 2, 2013 at 9:56 am

Thanks, Angie! If your teacher doesn’t provide any instructions, you can use any of those two samples. Please do confirm with your teacher to make sure. Take care!

4 Tracy Asher September 15, 2013 at 10:10 pm

This was very helpful in the preperation of writing my paper for english and business classes. Thanks

5 Erik's Bae November 14, 2013 at 12:03 pm

Very helpful…

6 Erik li November 28, 2013 at 10:48 am

Thanks,
Very helpful
Got stuck with teachers guide lines

Erik li

7 Zenobia June 6, 2014 at 10:06 am

Thanks, this outline and example gave me exactly what i needed to master my essay.

8 Laura November 4, 2014 at 8:25 pm

Thank you for the easy to read and understand example.

9 Jani March 19, 2015 at 7:52 pm

Thanks! This was really helpful for my final paper in one of my classes. I really appreciate it 🙂

10 Lauri April 17, 2015 at 7:52 pm

This information was very helpful, thank you! I utilized the cover format with the university name at the top as it looks much more professional than the second. I like to have as much information on the cover page as is allowed. 🙂

11 Cristina gomez May 2, 2015 at 8:31 am

Thanks, it helps a lot. I was wondering where goes your name on the paper, because I just started to take classes by internet so I don’t really have a teacher to teach me how do this kind of papers and you did it, God bless you!

12 Tarsha September 17, 2015 at 7:50 pm

Thank You the example has been very helpful. I start classes online thursday and I have a sample paper due this weekend for my orientation credit. I have never used this style. I haven’t written a paper in over 25 yrs. I was given written instructions but to see some type of visual is awesome. Thank you again!

13 Bethania February 24, 2016 at 4:10 pm

Very helpful

14 Kendra March 21, 2016 at 4:51 pm

This was extremely helpful!

15 DOMINIQUE May 18, 2016 at 3:40 pm

helpful

16 Livi October 31, 2016 at 2:43 pm

Usefull for my reports. Its also useful for future references

17 kaitlyn November 2, 2016 at 10:54 am

this is a amazing website

18 Salina Bujosa December 15, 2016 at 10:57 am

I will recommend this website to anyone who needs help because it really does take you step-by-step. Thanks!

19 CharInCincy December 25, 2016 at 3:25 am

Thank you

20 Faith March 11, 2017 at 11:50 am

Thank you so much this soo helpful

21 Barbara Plouffe September 22, 2017 at 10:34 am

I think that this was very helpful in many ways. It is was able to give me some insight on many different issues.

22 Erik November 15, 2017 at 9:38 am

help so much appreciate

23 Jacob the leprechaun March 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm

I very much enjoyed this. This will help me with my researrch pap er

Love,
Jacob <3

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