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MLA Basics
APA Basics
MLA or APA?
Works Cited Page Basics
In-Text Citation Basics
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This information (list in the correct order) goes in the upper left hand corner of the first page.
What is the students name, professors name, class, and date.
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An abstract (the brief summary of your paper) should be roughly this long.
What is 150-250 words
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A title page is created in this format.
What is APA?
100
Works cited page sources should be indented in this manner
What is a hanging indent
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True or False: Within a sentence, the period comes AFTER an in-text citation
What is TRUE (BONUS: What is the one exception to this rule?)
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This is what MLA stands for
What is Modern Language Association
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This is what APA stands for
What is American Psychological Association
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This format prioritizes authors and dates above all else.
What is APA
200
A works cited page is always arranged in this order.
What is alphabetical
200
This simple rule of thumb lets you know what to begin your in-text citation with.
What is: whatever your works cited page citation begins, that's what needs to begin your in-text citation (they need to match up)
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This information is the highest priority in MLA in-text citations.
What is: authors last name and page number (BONUS: what if you don't have the authors name?)
300
APA prioritizes dates because of this.
What is: Dates are more relevant in the sciences. WHEN something is published can affect ethos (credibility) of the work if new information has been found.
300
In this format, the running header is your last name and page number.
What is MLA
300
'Scholarly sources' refer to which kind of sources
What are sources that have gone through an expert peer reviewed process.
300
Use this phrase when using a source written by more than four authors
What is et al.
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PRACTICE: What goes at the end of the sentence? Website Article entitled "Hand-Eye Development". Sentence: Early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year.
What is: ("Hand Eye Development")
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Within APA papers, this is the way to separate one section from another.
What is: use headers, centered.
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In this format, last names take priority when building both in text citations and works cited page.
What is both MLA and APA.
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Name two places online where you can find peer reviewed articles
What is Academic Onefile, JSTOR, other library databases, or Google Scholar
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Complete the citation in MLA Style: Author: William Wordsworth, Page #263, Sentence: Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings".
What is: Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
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PRACTICE: (Indirect Source) Author: Arthur Weisman, Page: 259 Sentence: Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well".
What is: (qtd. in Weisman 259).
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This is what a good title does in APA
What is: foreshadows topic and theme
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This format is for humanities based subjects.
What is MLA
500
If you don't have an author, this is the 2nd highest priority for beginning MOST sources in MLA and APA
What is the article or document title
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Complete the sentence in APA Authors: John Smith, Thomas Yang, and Bob Moore. Year published: 2008. Sentence: [The authors] state that "tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights".
What is: Smith, Yang, & Moore (2008) state that "tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights".