The Basics
The act of giving another speaker credit for his or her ideas.
What is citation?
These are the two typographic styles/punctuation that indicate a title.
What are italics and quotation marks?
This is the CENTERED title of a citation page in MLA style citation.
What is "Works Cited" ?
Create an MLA in-text citation for a quote from “Black and Blue.” (2 minutes)
Example: “My love for walking started in childhood, out of necessity” (Cadogan 71).
** Note the period on the OUTSIDE of the quote and citation, no comma.
This law, which Congress passed in 1993, is also known as the Motor Voter Law. (One Person, No Vote)
What is the National Voter Registration Act or NVRA? (p. 73)
These are the two primary types of citation that we use in this class.
What are MLA and APA?
You use this format to indicate the title of a book, film, or major publication.
What are italics?
This is the CENTERED title of a citation page in APA style citation.
What is "References" ?
Create an APA in-text citation for a quote from “Hope and Home.” (2 minutes)
Examples:
“I was unprepared” (Alameddine, 2018, p. 12).
Alameddine (2018) says, “I was unprepared” (p. 12).
Garnette Cadogan, the author of "Black and Blue", left his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica to attend university in this city.
What is New Orleans?
The two types of citations that occur in a paper; the first is located within the paper, and the second comes at the end.
What are in-text citations and a final references page?
You use this format to indicate an essay, article, or episode.
What are quotations?
This is the order in which you arrange entries in a final citation page.
What is alphabetical order?
Create an MLA Works Cited citation for One Person, No Vote using VCU Writes!
Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
President James Monroe ordered the execution of this man, who led an attempted slave insurrection in Richmond and is interred in the city's oldest African American burial grounds. ("Buried in the Unremissive Ground: Reading Richmond's Subterranean Signs")
Who is Gabriel?
VCU's guide to locating information about citation styles.
What is "VCU Writes!" ?
In MLA formatting, every word in the title except prepositions and articles begins with one of these.
What is an uppercase letter?
This is the paragraph formatting you use in all final citation pages.
What is hanging indentation?
Create an APA References citation for the Seattle Times' “Under Our Skin” project (hint: it’s a website). (3 minutes)
The Seattle Times. (2017). Under Our Skin. [Website]. Retrieved from http://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/under-our-skin/#
A Syrian refugee in Rabin Alameddine's "Hope and Home" decorated the pantry in her tent with these.
What are sequins?
MLA and APA stand for these “Associations”.
What are the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association?
In APA formatting, every word in the title, except for the first word and the first word after a colon, starts with one of these.
What is a lowercase letter?
This is where you use bullet points, em-dashes, or numbers to indicate entries in a citation page.
Where is "nowhere" ?
Create an APA References citation for "The New Meaning of Mobility". (3 minutes)
Rosen, Christine. The new meaning of mobility. Space and place: Focused Inquiry I & II 2020-2021 Edition, 318-322. Hayden-McNeil, LLC/Macmillian Learning.
Spanish conquistadors found this pre-Columbian city in present-day Oaxaca, Mexico already deserted.
What is Monte Albán?