General
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
How wide should the margins of your essay be?
One inch
In the "best case scenario," what information should be included in your in-text citations?
The author's last name and page number
How should an author's name be written in a Works Cited page?
Last name, First name
@
Possible answers:
What information belongs in the heading (in the top left corner of the first page only)?
Your name, the instructor’s name, the course, and the date
True or false: you can omit the author's last name from an in-text citation if you mention it in the sentence.
True.
True or False: a hanging indent is when the first line of a works cited entry is indented, and all following lines begin at the left margin.
False
What button should you use to indent?
TAB
What is the purpose of including in-text citations and works cited pages in our essays?
To give credit to the sources of our information
How should you format the date in your essay's heading?
Day Month Year (i.e., 8 September 2026)
True or false: you can omit the page number from an in-text citation if you mention it in the sentence.
False.
If the text of your essay ends on page 5, what page should your works cited begin on?
Page 6
True or false: the title of your essay should be bold and underlined
False.
The order they appeared in the original source.
True or False: You must double space all Works Cited entries, but should not add additional spaces between them.
True
What information should be contained in your essay's header (i.e., upper right hand corner of every page)?
Your last name and the page number
What Latin abbreviation is used to indicate that a text has three or more authors?
Et al.
In what order should your Works Cited entries appear?
Alphabetical order based on the first word of the entry