MLA Formatting Basics
MLA utilizes this font style.
What is Times New Roman or easily readable?
MLA formatting of the page number of a paper.
What is your last name and page number in the upper right hand corner? DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
Works Cited appear on this page(s).
What is the last page(s) of the paper?
They appear before and after a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
MLA format employs this spacing.
What is double spacing?
Where and how far from the top margin should the page numbers appear.
What is right side of the page at 1/2 and inch from top margin?
Works cited has this spacing.
What is double spacing?
Before and after a paraphrase.
What is no quote marks?
MLA margins are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page.
What is one inch margins?
The use of a title page.
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
The order of the entries on the Works Cited page.
What is alphabetical order?
Cite a quote or paraphrase.
What is use the author's last name and page number in parentheses?
When indenting a paragraph, the mandatory spacing for MLA format. (two options)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces?
This is centered without italics.
What is the title?
When identifying longer works (books, magazines, etc.), what must one do to the title.
What is italicize it?
Correct this:
Dr. King explains I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood King 50
What is:
Dr. King explains “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” (King 50). ?
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A MLA heading has these four lines.
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
These function to separate sections.
What are headings?
What one must do to titles of shorter works (poems, article, etc.)
What is put quotes around it?
Correct this: ...we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics-will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last" (King 51)
What is:
"...we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics-will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last’ “ (King 51). ?