Student Writing Handbook Fifth+Edition

326 / Types of Writing

SAMPLE MLA ENDNoTE STYLE PAPER

This excerpt illustrates another widely accepted style. The documentation appears in
the text as raised numbers that refer to a list of notes at the end of the paper.

Commens 1

Ann Commens

Instructor A. Kamp

Senior English II

15 January 20—

Mother Goose: A Devoted Teacher

Mother Goose has survived generations of critics. Perhaps the most trying test of all for Mother

Goose has been through the honest and often unrestrained criticism of children.^1 These

rhymes have survived because of their ageless quality of rhythm, rhyme, and motion.^2 They

have been passed from parent to child for generations,^3 becoming such a part of the English-

speaking world that it is a handicap for a child not to know them.^4 The nursery rhymes of

Mother Goose, loved and recited by generations of children, help introduce children to good

literature, create fantasy friends, provide contentment, stimulate imagination, and promote

learning.