Works Cited
Where the works cited is in your essay
What is a separate piece of paper from your paper?
Copying the exact words and punctuation from a source; requiring quotation marks
What is a direct quote?
Format around the quote when citing it from a book, article, etc.
What is quotation marks?
Font and size used in MLA Format
What is Times New Roman and size 12?
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?
Format of a title of longer works (books, magazines, etc.)
What is italicize it?
Putting the ideas of others into your own words, not requiring quotations marks.
What is paraphrasing?
The way you cite a quote from an author for the first time
What is use the author's last name and page number in parentheses?
Spacing needed for MLA format
What is double spacing?
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?
Format for shorter works (poems, article, etc.)
What is put quotes around it?
Taking the key ideas from another source and shortening them, using your own words.
What is summarizing?
Correct this: She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
Margins needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page
What is one inch margins?
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?
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 ("---.")?
How might you introduce a quote?
Use your own text to lead into the quote
Words used in-text citation when there is no author given
What is the title of the work or a shortened version of the title?
Mandatory for MLA format when indenting a paragraph (two options)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces?
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?
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?
What do brackets within a quote signify?
You replaced or added words within the quote
Name two things that make citing a long quote different from a short quote
Period goes BEFORE citation, quote gets put in block form (indented 10 spaces from left margin), no quotes around it
Information you need to put before you put the title to your paper
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
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?