MLA - Books
MLA - Webpages
MLA - Elements
In-text Citations
Potpourri
100
This is how the author's name should be written.
What is last name, first name?
100
This is the first thing you should write when creating any citation.
What is the author's name?
100
This is the format in which you write dates in MLA Style.
What is day month, year?
100
Generally, these are the TWO pieces of information you must include in parenthetical citations.
What are the author's last name and the page number?
100
This is what Mrs. Rivers like to compare MLA citations to.
What is an address?
200
This is the second entry in a book's MLA citation.
What is the title?
200
These are the two types of titles that must be included when citing from a webpage.
What are the webpage and the website titles?
200
This is how you punctuate a smaller work, or a part of the whole work.
What is in quotation marks?
200
This is the punctuation that comes between the author's last name and the page number.
What is NONE!?!
200
This is what can happen in Mrs. Claiborne's class if you plagiarize.
What is receive a zero for the assignment?
300
This is how you remember if the place or the publisher comes first in a citation.
What is city comes before publisher alphabetically?
300
These are the two dates you must include in the webpage's citation.
What is the date the webpage was published/updated AND the date you accessed it.
300
This is the punctuation that comes between the city and the publisher when citing a book.
What is a colon?
300
This is what you use in the parenthetical citation if there was not an author.
What is the title of the work?
300
This is what happens in the professional world when you steal someone's ideas.
What is you get sued?
400
This is where you should get the author and title information for the citation.
What is the title page?
400
Rather than "print", this is the format of a webpage.
What is "web"?
400
When citing a webpage, this is the abbreviation if you cannot find a date.
What is n.d.?
400
This is where the period for the sentence goes when using an in-text citation.
Where is after the parenthesis?
400
These are the two things you must do if you copy someone's material word-for-word.
What is 1) use quotation marks and 2) give them credit.
500
This is the very last thing you put on the citation for a book.
What is "print"?
500
This is the one element used for a book citation, but NOT used on a webpage citation.
What is the city (or place) of publication?
500
If there is no author, this will be the first element in your citation.
What is the title?
500
You do not have to put the author's name in the parenthesis if you do this.
What is mention the author in your sentence?
500
This is the best English III teacher in the WORLD!
Who is Ms. Claiborne?
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