Fun with Formatting
The standard margin for all MLA papers.
What is 1"?
Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. Fleet, 2021.
What is a book?
This typically appears first in a citation.
What is the author's name?
This is what you should normally do with a source, as opposed to directly quoting it.
What is paraphrasing or restating?
This is centered on the first page of an MLA paper.
What is the title?
These two things are included in most MLA in text citations of books.
What is the author and page number?
Most often, this denotes a title.
What are quotation marks?
This is one of the main purposes of paraphrasing.
What is condensing information, demonstrating knowledge of a topic, and giving the audience only the information that they need for your purposes? (Any of these three are acceptable)
The location of the page number on an MLA paper.
What is the upper right-hand corner?
Nelson, Cary, and Bartholomew Brinkman, eds. Modern American Poetry. Dept. of English, U of Illinois, 2014, www.uofm.edu, 26 May 2015.
What is a website?
This typography denotes a book title.
What is italic?
This does not qualify as paraphrasing.
What is rearranging the words from the source?
These four things appear in the upper left-hand corner of the first page of a paper, in order.
What are Name, Instructor, Course Number, Date?
LaFollette, Mark C. "The Politics of Research Misconduct, Congressional Oversight, Universities, and Science." Journal of Higher Education, vol. 65 (1994):pp. 261-85
What is a journal article?
This typically appears last in a citation.
What is date of publishing OR a period?
The time that only a page number is acceptable at the end of a paraphrased paragraph.
When the author's name is included in the paraphrasing?
This is the page number of your works cited page.
What is the last page?
"At least one author thinks it is difficult to think rigorously about our obligations to people yet unconceived" (Landsburg et. al 8).
A citation whose source has more than two authors.
These are the two extra things that must be included when citing a journal article (as opposed to a book).
What are volume number and page range?
This is the number of consecutive words from a source that are unacceptable in a paraphrased paragraph.
What is four?