MLA Formatting
All MLA Style papers are written in this FONT and SIZE.
What is Times New Roman, 12 point?
Using another person's words or ideas in your own work, making it look like your original ideas, without acknowledgment.
What is plagiarism?
This is the word Stephen King hates the most.
What is 'zestful'?
This actor, widely known for his role of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, also appears in Avengers: Infinitiy War.
Who is Peter Dinklage?
These are the two components of page numbers (pagination) according to MLA Style.
What is Last Name space Page number?
A short, nonfiction piece of writing; also in the title of your textbook.
What is an essay?
Stephen King refers to the television like this.
What is a 'glass teat'?
In a PowerPoint presentation on the first day of class, I showed the class images of two of my favorite books, A Song of Ice and Fire, and this book series, about a fictional world of wizards.
What (who) is Harry Potter?
This is the sentence that appears at the end of the first paragraph and states the purpose of the paper.
What is a thesis statement?
The group of people a writer thinks will be reading their work.
What is an audience?
Stephen King reads approximately this many books per year.
What is between 60 and 70?
This is the criteria for applying for a Los Angeles Public Library card online.
What is living in Los Angeles?
This section of an MLA Style paper is listed alphabetically, regardless of whether author name or publication title comes first.
What is the Works Cited page?
The angle from which a writer sees and writes about their subject.
What is point of view?
Stephen King, encouraging reading at meals, describes this as the second to last of an aspiring writer's priorities.
What are manners?
The first example Adaptation Critical Analysis paper shared and read with the class examined this book and film.
What is "Planet of the Apes"?
These are the components of a CITATION for a printed book with one author.
What are Author, Title, Publisher, Publication Year?
The circumstances in which you communicate; including your audience, topic, purpose, and the context and culture in which you communicate.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Stephen King's son Owen attempts to play the saxophone, after developing a love for this band.
What is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band?
This is the one website that should never, ever be referenced in Language Arts 1.
What is Rotten Tomatoes?
A helpful website that Amanda recommends for MLA-specific tips and writing advice
What is the Purdue OWL?
The stage in the process of writing after a first draft is written when writers reexamine their work and try to improve it.
What is revision?
Editor of 50 Essays Samuel Cohen, recommends always reading with this in hand.
What is a pencil?
She is the Librarian at Gnomon.
Who is Lucy Bellamy?