MLA - Books
MLA - Online
MLA - Elements
In-text Citations
Potpourri
100

Last name, first name.

What is how the author's name should be written on the works cited page?

100

This is usually the first thing you should write when creating any citation.

What is the author's name?

100

This is the format in which you write dates in MLA Style.

What is day month year?

100

Generally, these are the TWO pieces of information you must include in parenthetical citations.

What are the author's last name and the page number?

100

This is the proper punctuation if you have a complete sentence and then a quote.

What is a colon?

200

This is the second entry in a book's MLA citation.

What is the title?

200

This is no longer required on a citation, but if you put it, you should put it on all similar citations.

What is the accessed on date?

200

This is how you punctuate a smaller work, or a part of the whole work.

What is in quotation marks?

200

This is the punctuation that comes between the author's last name and the page number.

What is NONE!?!

200

receive a zero for the assignment

What is this is what can happen at TJC if you plagiarize.

300

Add et al. 

What is how to list authors names when there are three or more?

300

What is the date you must include in the webpage's citation.

What is the date the webpage was published/updated.

300

This is what you start an article citation with if there is no author.

What is the title of the article?

300

This is what you use in the parenthetical citation if there was not an author.

What is a shortened title of the work?

300

(Fitzgerald, pg. 123).

What is an incorrectly formatted in-text citation?

Correct it!

400

The way one types the title of a book.

What is italics?

400

What is wrong with this citation: 

Brown, Jennifer. "The Art of Bread Making." Dayton Daily News, 11 July 2022, p. 798, www.daytondailynews.com/breadrecipe.

What is the newspaper title is not italized?

400

This is the most credible place to find sources.

What is a database?

400

This is where the period for the sentence goes when using an in-text citation.

Where is after the parenthesis?

400

These are the two things you must do if you copy someone's material word-for-word.

What is 1) use quotation marks and 2) provide a citation.

500

This is the very last thing you put on the citation for a book.

What is the publication date?

500

You can get "kicked out" of the college?

What is the worst consequence for plagiarism?

500

This is the last thing in an online works cited page entry before the period.

What is the URL?

500

You do not have to put the author's name in the parenthesis if you do this.

What is mention the author in your lead in sentence?

500

This is the best English teacher in the WORLD!

Who is Mrs. Brown?

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