Paper Formatting Basics
Paper Formatting Basics (2)
Works Cited
Parenthetical 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

Where should a Works Cited page be located in your paper?

On the very last page at the end.

100

When writing a direct quote in your own paper you must always remember to use which punctuation mark around the copied content?

What is quotation marks?

200
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
What is double spacing?
200

What goes in a heading? Write the elements in the correct order.

Student's Name

Teacher's Name

Class Name

Date written as the day, month, and year.

200

What kind of spacing should you use for your works cited page?

What is double spacing?

200

Given the following Works Cited entry, what information should be written in the parenthetical citation?

Bedford, Laurie. “Rebuilding from the Rubble.” Successful Farming, October 2019, pp. 34-39.


 (Bedford 34-9)

300
What 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 must be capitalized, but also, what must not be capitalized?
What is titles must be capitalized, but articles (the, a, an) must not?
300

How should you cite a direct quote? 

What is use the author's last name and page number in parentheses?

400
When indenting a paragraph, what is mandatory for MLA format? (two options)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces?
400

True or False: MLA formatting allows you to make the title larger, while using different fonts. 

What is false.

400
When identifying longer works (books, magazines, etc.), what must you do to the title?
What is italicize it?
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

Given the following Works Cited entry, what information will be written in the parenthetical citation? 

Cook, Claire Kehrwald. Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing. Houghton Mifflin, 1985. 

(Cook)

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