Paper Format
The proper font formatting is this size and style.
What is the size 12 and Times New Roman or Arial?
In MLA format, this information is included in the header in the top right corner.
What is the student's last name and page number?
This determines whether the title of works cited is singular (Work Cited) or plural or (Works Cited).
What is the number of sources on the page?
Short, direct quotes must always be introduced by this punctuation mark when the signal phrase ends with a verb. It is not needed when a quote is introduced with the word "that."
What is a comma?
The length of a long quote as defined by MLA format.
What is 5 or more lines of text in the paper?
This margin measurement is needed above the header in each paper.
What is 1/2 inch?
This punctuation is used to identify titles of short works that you refer to in a paper.
What are quotation marks? (articles, sections, chapters, short stories, poems)
This date is only needed for an entry on the works cited page when the source has no published date.
What is an accessed date?
When a student does not use the entire sentence of the quote, they must use this punctuation mark to indicate that words have been omitted.
What are ellipses or the three dots...?
Citations must be present when incorporating these three forms of research/evidence from sources.
What are quotes, paraphrases, and summaries?
These margin measurements are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of each page.
What are one-inch margins?
This goes outside the parentheses for a direct quote.
What is the period? "Sharks are scary" (Smith).
If a source has no page numbers, then students must use this instead but only if they are preprinted in the text.
What are section numbers, chapter numbers, or paragraph numbers?
This type of information does not require a citation.
What is common knowledge?
In MLA format, it is necessary to indent new paragraphs by this much.
What is 1/2 inch? What is hitting the Tab key once?
This font style is used to identify titles of longer works that you refer to in a paper.
What is italics? (books, databases, journals, magazines)
In titles of works cited entries, these words should not be capitalized unless they are the first of last word of the title (must tell all three types of words).
What are prepositions, articles, and conjunctions?
Long quotes receive these 4 special treatments in an MLA-formatted paper (must name all 4).
What are 1/2 inch indents for each line of the quote, no quotation marks, introduce with colons, and period goes before citations?
Students must use this as their in-text citation when the source has no author and it was not written by an organization or a group.
What is the title of the text?
Students must include these pieces of information on the first page left-side heading before he tittle in a correctly MLA-formatted paper.
What is student's name, teacher's name, course name, and date (day, month, year)?
The original title of a student's essay should not contain these items (must name at least 4 things).
What are quotation marks, italics, all capital letters, colored font, larger font, and different font than the essay?
This type of indentation is used on entries in a MLA-formatted works cited page and also any direct quote that is longer than 4 lines.
What is are hanging indents?
This is how a student indicates that someone other than the author is talking inside of the quote (must tell both ways).
What is use a single apostrophe to mark the beginning and end of the other person's speech AND have citations that say (qtd. in author's last name) or make it clear the author is quoting someone else when introducing the quote.
When a source has 3 or more authors, and the source has already been introduced to the readers, this is how you must write their names.
What is last name of the first author and the words et al.?