MLA Round-Up
A traditional MLA in-text citation contains the author's last name, and the _____.
What is page number?
This is the full name of the author of the article that mentions "MVP Mookie Betts" from the in-class essay reading packet.
Who is Daniel Drezner?
Unity is one of the four bases of writing, according to Langan and Albright. These are the other three.
What are coherence, support, and sentence skills?
What is exemplification?
Book and magazine titles should be written in _____ in academic writing.
What are Italics?
If you are citing Diane Urbina's article about fast food in your own writing, this is how you would write the article title on your Works Cited page.
What is "'Extra Large,' Please"?
In a New Yorker cartoon in the in-class essay reading packet, a hiker is cautioned not to mistake someone's _____ for leadership.
What is confidence?
In the "My Job in an Apple Plant" paragraph (Langan and Albright 4), the author says that the work was physically difficult. What are the other two main points (supporting details) that he writes about?
What are a) the pay, and b) the working conditions?
What is cause and effect?
Proper nouns, such as MassBay Community College, should always be _____ in academic writing.
What is capitalized?
The _____ in a sentence traditionally comes after an in-text citation.
What is a period?
This is the name of the publication to which Daniel Drezner, one of the writers showcased in the in-class essay reading packet, regularly contributes.
What is PostEverything?
This is how you would write the name of the author of "My Job in an Apple Plant" (Langan and Albright 4) on a Works Cited page if you cited the paragraph in your own writing.
What is Hert, Gene?
This is the part of an essay that connects the hook to the thesis statement.
What is background information?
I, II, III, etc. are examples of this numbering system used in traditional essay outlines.
What are Roman numerals?
Consider the following sentence:
According to Dr. Lewis, empathy is "'someone responding to you in such a way that you feel deeply understood'" (Curran 573). This is the author of the article from which Dr. Lewis' quote originates.
Who is Curran?
This famous historical figure is referred to as a "non-victim" in an article from the in-class essay reading packet.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
These are the types of information that come after/support the supporting details in a piece of academic writing.
What are examples?
This is a type of prewriting where you write down ideas for an essay or paragraph and try to organize them for the first time.
A blockquote is used when a quotation in a piece of academic writing takes up at least _____ lines.
What is four?
Write the full, correct Works Cited page citation for Dolores Curran's "What Good Families are Doing Right" from the Langan and Albright text.
What is:
Curran, Dolores. "What Good Families are Doing Right." English Skills with Readings. Ninth edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Print. 569-78.
This is the organization from which Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in 1939 following its barring of African-American singer Marian Anderson from performing at Constitution Hall. (Hint: Check the in-class essay reading packet!)
What is the Daughters of the American Revolution?
These are the five techniques Langan and Albright suggest for prewriting.
What are freewriting, questioning, making a list, clustering, and summarizing?
"However" is a type of _____.
What is a transition?
Correct the following sentence to make all the verbs parallel (the same format/tense):
Making a big dinner is a lot more fun than to clean up after it.
What is:
Making a big dinner is a lot more fun than cleaning up after it.