MLA
These are the standard font and text size for proper MLA formatting.
12pt. Times New Roman
True or false: Your annotated bibliography should include a page number at the top right of the page
True
This is the full title of the video game that the author spent his plague year inside of.
Fallout 76
This is a set of inquiries that help guide your exploration of a topic.
Research questions
This is the number of scholarly sources you must include in your research for this essay.
2
This goes in the top right-hand corner of each page in your essay.
Last name and page number.
This information appears first in each of your annotated bibliography entries.
Author's name (last name first!)
This is the location where the author's uncle built his house—also the setting for the video game discussed in the essay.
West Virginia
Not all research questions are created equal. This is one of the most common problems with a research question.
Too broad, general, or unspecific to lend itself to directed research; too narrow to have any useful research on the topic.
This is the page requirement for your Research Narrative essay (excluding annotated bibliography)
5-7 pages
This type of indentation is used in formatting entries in your annotated bibliography.
Hanging indent
This information appears last in each of your annotated bibliography entries.
Annotation; a summary, evaluation, analysis of the source and how it pertains to your paper.
"But, more significantly, my uncle built a house. Alone." The previous quotation illustrates this recurring theme in the essay.
Self-reliance/self-sufficiency
You encounter an article titled "Mental Health in 2025." Based on this title, we can assume the article comes from this academic field/discipline.
Psychology
Kelly Hsu's essay "Good Soup" provides a cultural history of this dish.
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
According to MLA guidelines, which of these in-text citations is correct?
A. (DuBois 23).
B. (DuBois, 23).
C. (DuBois 23.)
D. (DuBois, 23.)
A
This is a helpful online tool that can help you sequence and format bibliography entries.
Citation Machine
The author cites a 2011 study into the "doorway effect," a phenomenon that causes this.
Using a database for research can be pretty frustrating if you don't have a strong set of these.
Your Research Narrative essay is worth this percentage of your final grade.
30%
According to MLA guidelines, a book title should be written using this special punctuation or formatting.
Italics
The text "College Football in 2025" sports quotation marks, meaning we can assume it is this.
Article title, book chapter, or some text that is part of a larger publication.
According to the author, it is perpetually this holiday in Fallout 76.
Halloween
This appears at the start of many scholarly articles you may encounter during your research, offering a skimmable summary of the material covered in the full text.
Abstract
In "Good Soup," author Kelly Hsu looks at photos of "my village, my city, and the people living in it, going to the spots that I used to frequent" and feels this this emotion, first referred to as such in 1700s.
Homesick