Formatting and Citing Review

MLA Format

100

True or False: MLA (Modern Language Association) is often required in English courses

True

200

The header of your paper should contain these 4 elements (in this order)

student name, teacher name, Class name, Date

300

Your paper should be in this size and type font...

What is 12 point, Times New Roman?

400

This type of spacing should be between lines in your paper...

What is Double-spaced

500

the top right corner of your paper should have

student last name and page number of document

Citations

100

How would you cite this quote (in your essay)? "The only way out is up."- The Ledge, pg. 32 Authors: Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan

 (Davidson and Vaughan 32).

200

Cite this: "I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years." Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read, pg. 25

 (Douglass 25).

300

Find the error: "I had no regular teacher." (Douglass 25).

there should be No period after "teacher."

400

Find the error: She said, "because of this or that, I have no time" (Woolf 47).

capitalize the "b" in Because (dialogue quote). 

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Cite this in a Works Cited: "Shakespeare's Sister" by Virginia Woolf. pg 47-51. Reading the World: Ideas that Matter. Editor: Michael Austin. Published 2015 by W.W. Norton & Company in New York. Edition 3

Woolf, Virginia. "Shakespeare's Sister." Reading the World: Ideas that Matter. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2015. 47-51. Print.

MISC.

100

Names of essays, short stories, articles, and poems, should be... (underlined, italicized, bolded, quoted)

What is quoted?

200

Novel and book titles should be...(quoted,italicized, etc). 

What is italicized?

300

APA requires you cite the author's last name and....

the year of publication 

400

What is wrong with the example below? 

Fred was scared of spiders. "They are often venomous and you don't see them coming" (Smith 32).  

the quote is by itself; there should be a signal phrase such as: He says that, "They are often venomous and you don't seem them coming. 

500

is this a good paraphrase or plagiarism? 

Original Quote: "Wutang released its phenomenal album Enter the 36 Chambers in 1993 to commercial success." 

Student writing: In 1993, Wutang's phenomenal album Enter the 36 Chambers was released to commercial success. 

it is plagiarism because it uses exact wording from the source and does not use quotes. 

Kinda random

100

Skelly's favorite Rap Group 

The Wutang Clan

200

Asher chose this cartoon during our Wednesday lunches

The Regular Show

300

First rap duo to win a Grammy award (1989)

Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff! 

400

Henry David Thoreau spent this much time at Walden Pond...    or....he was a tutor to this acclaimed writer when she was a child...

two years, two months and two days....Louisa May Alcott

500

This movie, one of Skelly's favorites, is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary 

The Matrix!!!