General MLA
The three words that MLA abbreviates
What is Modern Language Association?
Using someone else's idea and pretending that it is your own
What is plagiarism?
The size of the margins for a MLA paper
What is one inch margins on the top, bottom, left, and right?
The two elements you required in any in-text citation
What is the page number and the author's last name
The spacing of the works cited page
What is double spaced?
How you should indent in a MLA paper
What is hit the TAB key once
Name a penalty that will happen to you if you are caught plagiarizing.
What is having to write the paper again, getting a zero on the paper, getting no credit for the college course, or being expelled from college.
Is it ever ok to omit the page number in an in-text citation?
Yes. When the source is electronic and therefore doesn't have page numbers.
A page at the end of an academic paper of the sources you cited in the paper itself
What is a Works Cited page?
Name one kind of person or place that uses MLA format.
What are schools, academic departments, and instructors?
Putting the author's ideas into your own words
What is paraphrasing?
The four pieces of information in the heading (in order)
What are full name, teacher's name, class, and date?
Nowhere. MLA doesn't use this element in an in-text citation.
Where does the word "page" or "p" go in the in-text citation?
The name of the paper at the end of an academic paper of all the sources you read regardless if you cited them in the paper or not.
What is a bibliography?
What is it called when you switch the order of the author's phrases within a sentence and do not use quotation marks?
What is plagiarism? Switching the order does not equal saying it your own words.
Telling the overall meaning for the entire article in your own words
What is summarizing?
The name and size of the font in a MLA paper
What is Times New Roman, 12 point?
Placed at the very end of a quote or paraphrase after the last parenthesis.
What is a period?
The order of the citations on the works cited page
What is alphabetical order?
What is it called when you use the author's exact words and include an in-text citation?
Plagiarism. You also need to use quotation marks.
Name a way that your teacher can find out that you plagiarized
What is Google search, plagiarizing software, plagiarizing checker websites, etc.?
If you use this in the sentence itself, you don't have to also include it in the in-text citation.
What is the author's last name?