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Paper Formatting Basics
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Works Cited
In-Text Quote Citations
100

What font is traditionally used for MLA format?

What is Times New Roman?

100

What is the correct format for dates in the heading and works cited page?

day month year (no commas

100
What is the works cited on?
What is a separate piece of paper from your paper?
100

This should NOT start a sentence. 

What is a quotation?

200
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
What is double spacing?
200
Where and how far from the top margin should your page numbers be?
What is right side of the page at 1/2 and inch from top margin
200

How your works cited should be spaced. 

What is double spacing?

200

If there is a pause between quotes, if someone is speaking, what must you do?

What is add a comma at the end of the first part of the quote along with the end quote, add a comma after he or she said (for example), then pick up the quote where it stopped.

300
What margins are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page?
What is one inch margins?
300
Is a title page used?
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
300
What must be capitalized, but also, what must not be capitalized?
What is titles must be capitalized, but articles (the, a, an) must not?
300

How must you cite the quote if you are using something from that author for the first time?

What is use the author's last name and page number in parentheses?

400
When indenting a paragraph, what is mandatory for MLA format? (two options)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces?
400
This is used to identify longer works that you talk about in the paper.
What is italics?
400

What is wrong with this entry?

Behbahani, Kayla, and Amber Thompson. "Why Doctors Fear Seeking Mental Health Treatment." Washington Post, 17 May 2020. SIRS Issues Researcher, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsissuesresearcher/document/2409387608?accountid=3194.


What is hanging indent and italicize SIRS Issues Researcher? 

400
Correct this: She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
500

What information do you need in the heading? (state in order)

What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?

500

What must you do to shorter works (poems, article, etc.)?

What is use quotation marks?

500

What should you do to 2nd and subsequent lines of works cited entries?

What is handing indent?

500
Correct this: I was walking along the street she said when I saw a cat and a dog chasing each other Smith 24
What is: "I was walking along the street," she said, "when I saw a cat and dog chasing each other" (Smith 24).