In-Text
The punctuation mark used to signal referring to the works of others in your text
What are parentheses?
The location of the Works Cited Page
What is the end of your paper?
True or False: You do not need to cite a film, only print texts.
False
The unabbreviated full government name of "MLA"
What is Modern Language Association?
The name of the totally unacceptable, very bad thing that you could be at fault for if you do not cite your sources
What is plargerism?
The type of indentation used in your Works Cited Page
What is a hanging indent?
The numbers that you find in parentheses for an in-text citation referencing a film
What is Run Time?
Ex. (Opus 12:54-16:37)
The academic field of study that most commonly uses MLA Formatting
What is the Humanities?
The method of MLA In-Text Citations
What is the author-page method? The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.
Ex. (Smith 132). Or Smith states..... (132).
The order in which entries on the Works Cited Page should appear
What is alphabetical order?
Entries are alphabetized by the first item in the citation (usually the author's last name).
True or False: The name of the director should appear first on a Works Cited citation of a film.
True
Ex. Peele, Jordan. Get Out. Universal Pictures, 2017.
The current edition of MLA Formatting
What is the 9th edition?
The Latin phrase used in a citation to reference three or more authors
What is "et al?"
For a source with three or more authors, list only the first author’s last name, and replace the additional names with et al.
Ex. (Johnson et al. 327).
True or False: "Works Cited" should be centered and italicized at the top of the Works Cited page?
False: Works Cited is NOT italicized.
True or False: If you watched the film on a streaming service, you need to list the streaming service's name in the Works Cited entry.
True
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What is the Purdue Owl? OR What is the MLA Style Center?
True or False: If a print source has no known author, you do not need to cite it.
False:
When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name, following these guidelines.
Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number if it is available.
True or False: You should double-space the citations on the Works Cited Page?
True
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The main differences between MLA and APA Formatting
MLA (Modern Language Association) is common in the humanities (like English and literature), while APA (American Psychological Association) is standard in social sciences (like psychology and sociology), health sciences, and education. MLA uses the author's name and page number for in-text citations (e.g., Smith 89), while APA includes the author's name, publication year, and page number (e.g., Smith, 2021, p. 89)