MLA Format
What type of spacing, font, and font size does MLA use?
Double spaced, Times New Roman, and 12 point font
Name three elements of the rhetorical situation.
Writer, audience, purpose, exigence, genre, subject, context
What kind of spacing do you use for the Works Cited page?
Where does your thesis go in your paper?
At the end of your introduction
True or False: If I state the author name in the sentence, I don't need to include the author name in the in-text citation.
Where are page numbers located in your document?
Upper-right corner along with your last name
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
Logos, pathos, ethos
What kind of indent does a Works Cited use?
Hanging indent
Daily Double! How many of your points would you like to wager?
What does the A stand for in the MEAL Plan acronym?
What is the in-text citation for page 89 of a source written by Javi Garcia?
(Garcia 89).
How would today's date be written in the MLA heading?
Varies based on day of the week
What is the rhetorical situation?
How are your Works Cited entries arranged?
Alphabetically
What is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?
What is the in-text citation for a source with these two authors on page 93: Patricia O'Neill and Jose Martinez?
(O'Neill and Martinez 93).
What information goes in the MLA heading? What order does that information go in?
Student Name, Instructor Name, Class, Date
What is it called when you misrepresent someone else's argument in order to make it easier to refute?
Straw man fallacy
Daily Double! How many of your points would you like to wager?
What is the in-text citation for this Works Cited entry?
"Financial Aid." CSN, csn.edu/financial+aid. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
What is "I Can't Find the Stupid Link"?
In-text citation does not match up with Works Cited entry
What is the in-text citation for a source on page 42 by these authors: Jadyn Grady, Michelle Barnosky, and Marcel Lamont?
(Grady et al. 42).
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
What is exigence?
The perceived need for the text
What errors are in this following Works Cited entry?
Callapa, D. "Guide to Culinary Theory." Universal Food University, 28 Sept. 2021, https://www.universalfooduni.edu/guidetoculinarytheory.
Author, Italics, URL
Callapa, David. "Guide to Culinary Theory." Universal Food University, 28 Sept. 2021, www.universalfooduni.edu/guidetoculinarytheory.
What is "I Swear I Did Some Research"?
Dropping in a citation without making it clear what information came from that source
Fill in the blanks for this paraphrased sentence taken from page 312 of this book chapter from an edited book:
It is important to consider all perspectives when representing history because, according to ________, students’ ancestry, experiences, and ethnic identity influence how they understand and construct historical thinking (__________).
Peck, Carla. "Ethnicity and Students' Historical Understandings." New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark, UBC P, 2011, pp. 305-324.
Carla Peck or Peck
(312).