First Page of the MLA Paper:
"a research paper does not need a title page"
--MLA Handbook Sect 3.5

But you do need:
*a nice, simple, plain 12 point font
*a header on the top right corner of EVERY page (click here if you need help doing headers)
* double line spacing throughout the paper: for all lines including heading
* a title with no boldface, underlining or all-caps, no quotation marks
*to indent: 1/2" at 1st line of each paragraph
* no blank lines: you may NOT have extra blank lines between the paragraphs