Images charts graphs and illustrations are not a required part of your essay but they can help present evidence to your reader in a persuasive way If you choose to use images in your essay you must follow correct MLA format and cite the image in your works cited page ID: 647879
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Inserting Images into Your Research Paper
Images, charts, graphs, and illustrations are not a required part of your essay, but they can help present evidence to your reader in a persuasive way. If you choose to use images in your essay, you must follow correct MLA format and cite the image in your works cited page.
*using images can help you make your essay a bit longer, but don’t overdo it – keep your images relatively small and don’t use more than 2 or 3* Slide2
First, find a useful image online;
Find extra help for this in your textbook on page 72, and pages 219-225.
Use OWL Purdue’s rules for figures, tables, and examples when inserting images:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/14/
Make sure any images you include add meaningful content to your argument: don’t use images as illustrations (for example, if your topic legalization of marijuana, inserting an image of a pot leaf is not going to help your argument, but a map that shows which states have legalized medical marijuana could).Slide3
Here’s how to insert an image:
Find an appropriate place for your image; basically, put the image close to a part of your essay that addresses the ideas that your image illustrates.
In this case, I’ll be using a chart to help illustrate how employment in manufacturing has changed since the 1970s, so I’ll put the chart near my paragraph about the same concept. Slide4
Right-click on the image you’ve found, and select “Copy image.”
Then, right-click again on your Word Document;Slide5
When you’re done, it will look like this:
The image is “text-wrapped” using the “tight” setting
Below the image, a citation appears, giving a brief description of the image and a citation.Slide6
It will be a bit weird the first time you try it out, but keep messing around until it looks professional.
For your works cited
page,
follow this basic format:
Author/Creator
. “Title of Image”
Container
.
Publishing Organization, Day Month Year; table 1a.