Alinear4-nodequadrilateralquasi-conformingplaneelementwithinternalparametersisproposed.Theelementpreservesadvantagesofthequasi-conformingtechnique,includinganexplicitstiffnessmatrix,whichcanbeappliedtononlinearproblems.Theweakpatchtestguaranteestheconvergenceoftheelement.ThenthelinearelementisextendedtothegeometricallynonlinearanalysisintheframeworkofTotalLagrangian(TL)formulation.Thenumericaltestsindicatethatthepresentelementisaccurateandinsensitivetomeshdistortion.