Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1 Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
2 Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
3 We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Thomas is using this text in his research paper. His teacher insists on the MLA format. He is working on the final draft. Each of these statements describes appropriate conventions of the Modern Language Association Handbook (MLA) EXCEPT
A) Double-space the text of your paper, and use a legible 12 pt. font like Times Roman.
B) Use only boldfaced fonts for the titles of longer works and for providing emphasis.
C) Type your paper on a computer and print it out on standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper.
D) Set the margins to 1 inch on all sides. Indent the first line of a paragraph one half-inch from the left margin.