Paper Formatting Basics
A short phrase, typically including the author's name and a verb, that introduces a quote.
What is a signal phrase?
The line spacing of your works cited page.
What is double spaced?
In a narrative essay, this is when action in the story starts to wind down.
What is falling action?
When you use someone else's exact words in your writing.
What are quotes?
a flaw in reasoning or a flawed structure that weakens an argument.
What is a logical fallacy?
The line spacing for MLA format.
What is double spaced?
These two items are listed in the header and right side of each page.
What is your last name and page number?
A critical thinking skill that includes the process of methodically breaking something down to gain a better understanding of it.
What is analysis?
What is the author's name and page number in parentheses?
A collection of items stored electronically such as articles, videos, audio files, pictures or ebooks.
What is a database?
This is the font used in MLA format. (size and type)
What is 12 pt. Times New Roman?
This information goes in the heading of your essay only on the first page. (List in order)
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date?
It contains your topic and your specific claim or perspective on that topic.
What is an argumentative thesis?
This information is included in parentheses after a direct quotes when the source doesn't have
an author's name.
What is the first few words of the title?
When you put the author's information in your own words and condense
important information from the source.
What is paraphrasing and summarizing?
Sources are listed in this order on the work cited page.
What is alphabetical?
The special indentation on your works cited page where all lines after the first are indented.
What is a hanging indention?
A source that has is evaluated by other experts in the same field before publication to ensure quality, validity, accuracy, and originality.
What is a peer-reviewed scholarly source?
This abbreviation is used in MLA format when the source has three or more authors.
What is et. al. ?
circular argument because the premise is the same as the claim that you are trying to prove.
What is begging the question?
This is centered and located on this first page under the heading and before the first paragraph.
What is the title of the essay?
Author's name are formatted this way for each citation on the works cited page.
What is Author's last name, Author's first name or inverted?
This type of thesis statement is revealed through key ideas and repeated themes throughout the text. The reader must infer the writer's main point based on the overall content.
What is an implied thesis statement?
“Everyone is getting tattoos in college, so you might as well do it too", is an example of this
type of fallacy.
What is bandwagon?
This is the unabbreviated meaning of MLA.
What is Modern Language Association?