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MLA Potpourri
100
Generally, the first component of a works cited entry.
What is an author's last name?
100

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, shorter edition in 2 volumes, Norton, 1998, pp. 1106-1217.

What is a play in an anthology?

100
For some, reading is, "[…] just half of literacy. The other half is writing" (Baron 194).
What is correct?
100
The order of sources in a works cited list.
What is Alphabetical?
100
MLA does not require this page unless your instructor requires it.
What is a title page?
200
The title of a magazine article is punctuated with these marks.
What are quotation marks?
200
Spicer, Richard. "Gobsmacked: The Tragic Rise and Fall of Punk Rock." Spin, vol. 28, Iss. 5, Jan. 2014, pp. 56-58, 105.
What is an article in a magazine?
200

According to noted linguist James Keller on page 74 of his article "Exposing Language," information literacy is, "[…] the single most important thing to learn in the modern era."

What is wrong?

200

The location of the works cited list.

What is on the last page of the paper?

200
An outline is paginated using the proper case of these numerals.
What is small case Roman numerals?
300

The title of a book is rendered with this typeface.

What are italics or underlined?

300
de Montaigne, Michel. Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Essays. Edited by M. A. Screech, translated by M. A. Screech, Penguin, 1991.
What is a book?
300
While reading may be the core of literacy, literacy can be complete only when reading is accompanied by writing (Baron 194; Keller 74).
What is right (two sources make the same point)?
300
The terms used to describe the formatting of a works cited list entry.
What is "hanging indent?"
300

It is the first item in an MLA outline.

What is thesis or an attention grabber?

400

MLA uses this general term to describe a larger source that "houses" more than one specific source.

What is "container" or database?

400
The Walt Whitman Archive. Edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, U Nebraska–Lincoln, http://www.whitmanarchive.org
What is a website?
400
While reading may be the core of literacy, Naomi Baron argues that literacy can be complete only when reading is accompanied by writing (194).
What is right?
400

These characters replace an author's name when there is more than one source from the same author.

What are three hyphens and a period ("---.")?

400
The first three levels of an MLA outline are identified using these characters.
What are upper case Roman numerals, upper case Roman alphabet, and Arabic numerals.
500

The last element of a works cited entry.

What is location or page number?

500
Jeffries, Mark, and Bill Withers. "Graphic Design in the 22nd Century." Art Space, Vol. 12, Iss. 9, May/June 2002, pp. 28-31. Academic Search Complete, DOI: 34.1000/483.
What is a magazine article located on an electronic database?
500
WebMD's "Athlete's Foot" page describes it as a fungal infection.
What is right?
500
When there is more than one author of a source, this is the order of the author's names listed in the work cited list entry.
What is according to the order listed by the source itself?
500
MLA is an acronym for this organization.
What is Modern Languages Association?