What's in a Name?
Formatting Frenzy
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This association gives MLA its name.
What is the Modern Language Association.
100
This is the preferred margin size for papers formatting in MLA.
What is 1" (one inch).
100

These two pieces of information make up a standard parenthetical citation for a book source with a named author.

What is the author’s last name and page number

100

This is the order that bibliographic entries should be listed.

What is alphabetical by the first word

100

This is the preferred line spacing for papers formatted in MLA.

What is double spaced.

200

This page appears at the end of a research paper formatted in MLA style.

What is Works Cited page.

200

This is the order of the date in MLA heading.

What is Day Month Year

200

This is used if no author is available for in-text citation

What is an "Abbreviated Version of the Title"

200

This is the difference between the first line of a bibliographic citation and any subsequent lines.

What is a hanging indent

200

This is a list of sources for all works referenced AND used for research for an MLA formatted paper.

What is a bibliography

300
Names of self-contained works—book titles, films, television series, website titles, etc.—should be formatted in this way.
What is italicized.
300
This is the information that should be located in the upper right corner of each page in an MLA formatted paper.
What is the author's last name and the page number.
300
This is the location of the period for a sentence requiring an in-text citation.
What is outside the parentheses.
300
When citing book, this piece of information should be listed last in the citation.
What is date of publication.
300

This is what you are guilty of when you do not include the proper citation for information you got from someone else's ideas.

What is plagiarism

400

Names of works contained within other works—chapters, individual articles, individual web pages, songs, etc.—should be formatted in this way.

What is in quotation marks.

400

This is the second-line in an MLA heading.

What is Professor's Name

400
This is the latin phrase used in citations to indicate a source written by three or more authors.
What is "et al.".
400
This piece of information should be used in a bibliographic citation for a website when the date of publication is not available.
What is date of access.
400

Which is the current edition of MLA in use?

What is 9th edition

500

This is the punctuation that follows each part of the entry in an MLA bibliographic citation.

What is a period.

500

These three elements are required formatting for a block quote.

What is set off with a block indent, no quotation marks used, and must be longer than four typed lines

500
Use this phrase to cite an indirect source (i.e., a source cited by another source) in a parenthetical citation.
What is "qtd. in".
500

True or False - Everything in a Works Cited must be used in the essay with in-text citation.

What is TRUE.

500

The year when MLA was established.

What is 1883

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