Paper Formatting Basics
Paper Formatting Basics (2)
Works Cited
In-Text Quote Citations
100
What font do you need to use for MLA format?
What is Times New Roman?
100
When numbering your pages of a paper, what is needed for MLA format?
What is your last name and page number? DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
100
What is the works cited on?
What is a separate piece of paper from your paper?
100
What must the quote be in when citing it from a book, article, etc.?
What is quotation marks?
200
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
What is double spacing?
200

Were should your page numbers be located?

On the top right corner of the page

200

What size spacing do you use for your Works Cited page?

What is double spacing?

200
If there is a pause between quotes, if someone is speaking, what must you do?
What is add a comma at the end of the first part of the quote along with the end quote, add a comma after he or she said (for example), then pick up the quote where it stopped.
300

What size margins are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page?

What is one inch margins?

300
Is a title page used?
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
300

What is capitalized in your title? What parts of speech are NOT capitalized?

What is all words in the title must be capitalized except for articles (the, a, an) and prepositions (in, of, under, above, etc.)?

300
How must you cite the quote if you are using something from that author for the first time?
What is use the author's last name and page number in parentheses?
400
What are two ways that you can indent a paragraph?

What is Tab? What is 5 spaces?

400
This is used to identify longer works that you talk about in the paper.
What is italics?
400

What kind of indentions should you use?

What are hanging indentions?

400
Correct this: She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
500
What information do you need to put before you put the title to your paper?
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
500
These are used when referring to other works in the title of your paper.
What is quotes?
500
What must you do to shorter works (poems, article, etc.)?
What is put quotes around it?
500
Correct this: I was walking along the street she said when I saw a cat and a dog chasing each other Smith 24
What is: "I was walking along the street," she said, "when I saw a cat and dog chasing each other" (Smith 24).
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