Paper Formatting Basics
What font do you need to use for MLA format?
What is Times New Roman 12pt?
When numbering your pages of a paper, what is needed for MLA format?
What is your last name and page number only?
This is where you create your works cited.
What is a separate page from the rest of your paper?
This is how you punctuate text when citing it from a book, article, etc.
What is quotation marks?
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
What spacing is still applied to your works cited page?
What is double spacing?
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 quotation marks, open quotation marks for the continuation of the quote and close quotation marks at the end.
Is a title page always used?
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
This is what must be capitalized in titles, but also, this is not be capitalized?
What is titles must be capitalized, but articles (the, a, an) must not?
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?
When indenting a paragraph, what is mandatory for MLA format? (there are 3 possible answers, name at least 1)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces or tab?
This is used to punctuate longer works that you talk about in the paper.
What is italics?
This is what you do when identifying the title of longer works (books, magazines, etc.)
What is italicize it?
Correct this: She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
What information do 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)?
Or the heading
These are used when referring to text from other works in your essay.
What is quotes?
This is what you do for shorter works (poems, article, etc.)
What is put quotes around it?
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).