This is the classic font used when following the MLA format.
What is Times New Roman?
100
These two pieces of information appear at the top of each page, in the right-hand corner.
What are the last name of the paper's author, a space, and the page number.
100
The works cited page is on this page.
What is the last page on a separate piece of paper from the rest of your paper?
100
These marks of punctuation are placed around words that have been directly copied from a source.
What are quotation marks?
100
As long as all the sources used in a research paper are listed on a works cited page, a student cannot be guilty of plagiarism.
What is false?
200
This spacing is used throughout a paper that is formatted according to MLA.
What is double spacing?
200
Abigail has consulted seven sources in order to write her research paper. She winds up using information from six sources. Should she list all seven sources that she read, or the six sources that she used?
The six sources that she used
200
This kind of spacing is used on the works cited page.
What is double spacing?
200
If there are words that you are leaving out of a quote, these are the marks of punctuation you must use to show you have left out words.
What are ellipses? . . . .
200
Sonja has listed all the sources she used in her research paper on a works cited page. She has also included in-text citations for every direct quote that she used. She is not guilty of plagiarism. True or False
False--- if she did not also include in-text citations for information that she placed in her own words.
300
This is the size of the margins at the top, bottom, and sides of the page.
What is one inch margins?
300
Do papers that follow MLA formatting guidelines typically have title pages?
They DO NOT have title pages - -unless a professor provides explicit instruction to include a title page, do not.
300
When writing out the titles of your sources, name types of words that should be capitalized and words that should not be capitalized.
What are nouns and verbs (should be capitalized) and articles ("the" and "a") that should not be capitalized?
300
This information is traditionally placed in parentheses when creating an in-text citation.
What are the author's last name and page number. (Smith 34)
300
While conducting research, Jeremy read an article about his topic but did not use any of the information directly in his paper. Should he list it on his works cited page?
What is No.
400
A paper that contains only direct quotes from sources and no summaries or paraphrases from sources will receive a high grade. True or false?
False -- Remember: Quotes do NOT count towards the overall length of an essay. Also, you must demonstrate that you can paraphrase sources (put them into your own words).
400
The works cited page entries are placed in this order.
What is alphabetical?
400
This formatting is used to identify longer works such as books and newspapers.
What is italics?
400
What is wrong with this citation?: According to recent studies, students at SUNY New Paltz "are growing increasingly brilliant (Samuels 64)."
The quotation mark has been placed incorrectly:
According to recent studies, students at SUNY New Paltz "are growing increasingly brilliant" (Samuels 64).
400
Susan was careful to place sources into her own words. Because she paraphrased well and listed her sources on a works cited page, she does not also need to use in-text citations.
What is False
500
When following MLA formatting, this information appears in your header, on the left-hand side of the first page. (Hint: 4 pieces of information appear.)
What is student's name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
500
When a works cited entry has no author, then the writer lists the source by this.
What is the title of the source?
500
This punctuation mark is used to identify shorter works such as newspaper or magazine articles.
What are quotation marks?
500
What is wrong with this citation?: In the World News Report, SUNY New Paltz was given a ranked the number one college on the East Coast in terms of the number of skateboards per student. (Samuels 64).
There are two periods:
In the World News Report, SUNY New Paltz was given a ranked number one college on the East Coast in terms of the number of skateboards per student (Samuels 64).
500
Clarence used only a part of sentence in his essay - - three words--and he included an in-text citation. He does not need to put quotation marks around the three words because most of the sentence is in his own words and he has included an the in-text citation. True or False?