MLA
MLA stands for this organization, which developed a common style for writing and documenting sources.
Modern Language Association
This goes inside the parenthesis when you have a direct quote from a book.
What is last name and page number?
The three parts of an introduction paragraph.
What is a hook, background/context, and thesis statement?
Th three rhetorical domains.
This is the act of using another persons word or ideas without giving proper credit -- a serious offense in academic writing.
What is plagiarism?
In MLA format, the list of sources at the end of your paper is titled this.
What is a works cited page?
If the source has two or more authors, this is how you list them in a parenthesis.
The four parts of an analysis or evaluation essay.
What is an introduction paragraph, summary paragraph, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
The use of tools and strategies to convey a message or persuade.
What is rhetoric?
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What is the Writing Center?
MLA format requires this specific font and size for the entire paper.
Times New Roman, size 12.
For a source with three or more authors, this abbreviation can be used in parentheses.
What is et al.?
The four parts of a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence, evidence, analysis, and final sentence?
The three essential elements of a rhetorical situation.
What is writer, audience, and message?
The thing you select in writing as a means for making judgement.
What is criteria?
In the Works Cited, long titles of books, films or websites should be styled this way.
What is italicized?
If you’re summarizing or paraphrasing instead of quoting, this is still required.
The three-step method for peer reviewing.
What is praise, question, suggest?
The writing process of going back to an earlier state and making changes.
What is the recursive writing process?
The year OCCC was founded.
1972.
The current edition the MLA Handbook is on.
Parenthetical citations should always appear at this point in the sentence.
What is at the end of the sentence, before the period?
This type of statement does not present the idea that will be in the body paragraph but does give a general idea of what the essay will cover.
Open thesis statement
The five stages of the writing process.
What is planning, drafting, rivising, editing, and formatting?
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