Citations
What you place parenthetical citations inside of.
What are parentheses?
You should use this font for a paper formatted in MLA style.
What is Times New Roman?
This part of a body paragraph is quoted or paraphrased information that always requires a citation.
What is a concrete detail/evidence?
The type of spacing you need to use for an MLA essay.
What is double spacing?
This island continent is wider than the moon.
What is Australia?
You do this when there are two authors for a source.
What is listing both of their last names?
This part of your paper goes on a separate page at the end of your essay.
What is the Works Cited?
This part of your essay presents the main topic or claim of the essay and briefly hints at what each body paragraph will discuss.
Everything in your essay must relate to this element.
What is the thesis?
The only type of number you should include in a parenthetical citation.
What is the page number?
These are the only mammals that can fly.
What are bats?
You do this when you can't find the author's name for a source.
What is citing the publisher or website name?
This is how the citations in your Works Cited page should be formatted.
What is alphabetical order?
This part of your essay includes deeper analysis of evidence (EX: compare and contrast, examples, cause-and-effect, adds cultural or academic context).
What is commentary?
Is this citation correct? Why or why not?
In the book The Inner Workings of the Minds of Frogs, it states that "Most frogs have more complex hopes and dreams than one may think." (Anderson 43)
No, the period needs to go after the citation.
This fruit is considered a berry, despite its un-berry-like appearance.
What is a bannana?
This means "including everyone who worked on this paper".
What is et al?
This part of your paper includes your last name and page number.
What is the header?
This part of your essay includes a "call to action" - a lesson people should take away from your essay.
What is the conclusion paragraph?
What is the conclusion paragraph?
You do this when you need to quote a large chunk of text.
What are block quotes/elipses?
This is the correct order for an MLA heading.
Teacher's Name
Class
Date
What words can you NOT use in a traditional academic essay?
What is I, me, my, yours, we, and ours?
Each body paragraph starts with this.
This means "the fear of long words".
What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?