This infernal noise is awful I wish they'd stop it.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
The line spacing required in the body of your essay and the Works Cited page.
What is double spacing?
100
I didn't need to use a citation because I summarized the material and put it all my own words.
What is plagiarism?
100
(Siegel 666) or (Siegel, 666)
What is (Siegel 666)?
100
The name of the word used in the in-text citation (or within the sentence) and which also is the first word in the Works Cited page reference.
What is the signal word?
200
My favorites times of the year are: winter and baseball.
What is incorrect punctuation? A colon can only be used after a COMPLETE statement.
200
The top, bottom, left, and right margins should be at this amount on all pages.
What is one inch?
200
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. "When the plain reaches maximum saturation, floods usually begin in mid-March."
What is a dropped quotation? This is NO-NO. Always use signal phrases to provide context. Example: Richard Benjamin asserts that "When the plain reaches maximum...
200
What I use for my in-text citation if there is no author.
What is an abbreviated form of the title?
200
How I would indicate that there is no publisher listed.
What is N.p.?
300
The boy that was in our class and annoyed everyone.
What is a fragment?
300
A title page.
What is NOT needed in MLA, version 2009?
300
I used synonyms to change the words in the source I used, and I provided a citation.
What is plagiarism? Paraphrasing too closely is considered plagiarism.
300
How I format my citation when there are more than four authors.
What is the last name of the first author followed by "et al." Example: (Siegel et al.).
300
When I would include the URL in the Works Cited page.
What is NEVER, unless the source would be absolutely unclear without it?
Be careful, though, if an online source has this little information, it may not be a good source.
400
Benjamin Franklin wrote that "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead".
What is incorrect punctuation. Remember, it is PERIOD, then QUOTATION!!!!!
400
When you need to use an indented quotation and how much the quotation should be indented from the left-hand margin.
What is when you used over 4 lines of typed lines of prose? What is one inch from the left margin?
400
I used these to show that I omitted some words from the quotation. I was careful not to omit words that would change the meaning of the quotation.
What is an ellipsis?
400
The citation I'd use if the author was named in the sentence, and the source was a web article with no page numbers.
What is no citation?
400
What my signal word would be if I were quoting from a magazine and didn't have the name of the author or the title of the article.
What is the name of the magazine?
500
This is needed whenever you join two sentences with a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so).
What is a comma?
500
Where the title of your paper is placed and how it is formatted.
What is the top center of the page (but below your name, class title, etc.) and no formatting? The title is not bolded, italicized, or enclosed in quotation marks.
500
I used this because I needed to add a couple words to make the quotation clearer for the reader.
What are brackets?
500
How I would indicate that the quote I'm using is in a source written by someone else.
What is I would clarify whose words are being quoted in my sentence and then use a citation like this: (qtd. in Irving).
EXAMPLE: Jennifer Low claims that "girls like sprinkles" (qtd. in Irving).
500
The order in which the Works Cited references are arranged.
What is alphabetical? Remember, though, that "a," "an," and "the" are ignored when the title is the signal word(s).