Paper Formatting Basics
The font required for MLA format
What is Times New Roman?
Included in the running header on the top right of each page.
What is your last name and page number?
Difference(s) between Works Cited page and Annotated Bibliography
What is the Works Cited page only lists works used in the paper, but a Bibliography contains works consulted but not directly used in the paper?
These must surround the exact words from a source
What is quotation marks?
The line spacing required in MLA format
What is double spacing?
The format for the date in the heading and how it is punctuated
What is the day, the month, and the year with no commas in between?
The spacing required for all elements on the Works Cited page
What is double spacing?
Citations should follow direct quotes and this form of information
What is paraphrasing?
The width of the margins needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page
What is one-inch margins?
The alignment/position of the title
What is centered?
In a title, these types of words are not capitalized
What is articles (the, a, an)?
The reason a citation may use a title instead of the author's name
What is when the author's name is unknown?
The action or number of spaces needed to indent a paragraph
What is using the tab button? OR What is 5 spaces?
Where the works cited page must be
What is at the end of the paper on its own separate page?
Format used for longer works published under their own title and not contained in other works (books, magazines, movies, etc.),
What is italics?
The position of the period at the end of quoted and cited material.
What is after the parentheses?
In order from top to bottom, the information in the heading on the top left of your paper.
What is student name, teacher's name, course number, and due date?
The selection needed to make sure there is no extra space between paragraphs.
What is "Remove Extra Space After Paragraph"?
The kind of punctuation used to identify the titles of shorter works that are usually published inside other works (songs, poems, short stories, TV episodes, etc.)
What is quotation marks?
The location of the final punctuation when quoted material ends with a question mark or an exclamation point
What is inside the quotation marks, before the citation?