Works Cited
The title on this page should appear how?
What is centered?
If author's name is used with the paragraph, only this is needed in parentheses.
What is the page number?
True or false-
Not citing correctly is considered a form of plagiarism whether done intentionally or unintentionally.
What is true?
This is what the acronym MLA stands for...
What is Modern Language Association?
This includes your last name and page number in the upper right hand corner of each page.
What is the header?
These words appear centered at the top of the last page.
What are Works Cited?
When introducing a quote, always use this before the first quotation mark.
What is a comma?
True or false -
If someone's ideas are summarized within the paper, they do not have to cited or mentioned in the paper.
What is false?
This is the edition of MLA currently used.
What is 8th edition?
These items make up the first four lines of page one of an essay.
What are your name, instructor's name, course and section number and date?
All entries should be listed this way by author's last name first.
What is alphabetized?
These are not needed for a paraphrase of an author's words.
What are quotation marks?
This is another name for an in-text citation.
What is a parenthetical citation?
This should be created by you and centered on line 5 of page one.
What is the title?
The spacing for page 1 line four should be what for before and after.
What is 0?
This is how a title of a book is punctuated when typing it as part of an entry.
What is italics?
If quoted material comes at the end of the sentence, this goes after the last parenthesis mark.
What is a period or the end punctuation?
The author's name is needed within parentheses when...
What is when the author's name is not mentioned in the paragraph?
This should be included when creating entries for the Works Cited page for online sources.
What is the url?
This is the suggested type of font and size of font used for essays.
What are Times New Roman and 12?
This is used for second and subsequent lines of entries.
What is a hanging indent?
If not all of the quote is used, these can be used to denote that you omitted some of the quotation.
What are ellipses marks? (...)
Generally speaking, you can regard something as this if you find the same information undocumented in at least five credible sources which means there is no reason to cite it.
What is common knowledge?
These are the larger wholes in which a source is located.
What is a container?
The margins should be this for all sides of the page.
What is 1 inch?