This citation includes two dates: the publication date and the date of access.
What is a database or web source?
100
You use these to tell readers where borrowed material begins and ends in your essay.
What is a signal phrase (tag lines)?
100
This should always be double-spaced.
What is the Works Cited page?
100
Some months have 30 days, some have 31, how many have 28?
What is all of them?
200
You do this to titles of books, magazines, journals and databases in MLA format.
What is italicize?
200
If a source has no publisher or sponsor, you should use this abbreviation.
What is "N.p." for no publisher?
200
Parenthetical citations should be used in your essay when you are doing these three things.
What is summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting?
200
In the Works Cited, you should do this to all words in titles except prepositions, conjunctions and articles.
What is capitalize?
200
Why are the University of Delaware's colors Blue & Gold?
Blue and gold are also the colors of Sweden, from which Delaware's first permanent colonists came.
300
You do this if a book has four or more authors.
What is list only the first author's name and add the phrase et al.?
300
MLA requires this in all Works Cited entries, usually at the end of the entry (neither in italics nor in quotation marks).
What is the medium of publication such as Print, Web, etc.?
300
When should the title of the work be used in the parenthetical citation?
What is when the author's name is missing?
300
This should be used to indent the second and all subsequent lines of each entry on the Works Cited page.
What is a hanging indent?
300
These four words appear on each U.S. coin.
What is In God we Trust?
400
A basic citation for a book looks like this: (use "author's first name, author's last name, publisher etc.")
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of the Book. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Medium of Publication.
400
If a site has no title, you may substitute this description for the title.
What is Home Page?
400
If the author's name is in the text of the signal phrase, this should be used in the parenthetical (in text) citation?
What is the page number?
400
Your parenthetical citation must always connect with this.
What is your reader to your Works Cited page?
400
A man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home there were two masked men. Who were they?
The catcher and the umpire!
500
A basic article from journal (in print, not online) looks like this:
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Periodical
Title Volume number.Issue number (Date of
publication): Page number range. Medium of
Publication.
500
A basic journal article (from an online library database!) looks like this:
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Periodical
Title Volume number. Issue number (Date of
publication): Page number range. Database Name.
Medium of Publication. Date of Access. .
500
When a writer's words appear in a source written by someone else, the citation should include this phrase.
What is the phrase "qtd. in"?
500
In the Works Cited, all sources should be listed in this order by the last name of the first author or by the first significant word in the title.