Paper Formatting Basics
What font do you need to use for MLA format?
What is Times New Roman?
When numbering your pages of a paper, what is needed for MLA format?
What is your last name and page number? DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
What page is the works cited on?
What is the top of the last page your paper?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate that you are using the word for word language of a source in your essay.
What are quotation marks?
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
What is double spacing?
This is the type of indentation used on the works cited page.
What is hanging indentation?
What spacing is still used on your works cited page?
What is double spacing?
True or False--Your essay should have MORE sources on your works cited page than are cited in your in-text citations.
What is False
What margins are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page?
What is one inch margins?
Is a title page used?
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
This is the order in which your sources should be on your works cited page.
What is alphabetical order?
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? (three options)
What is 1/2 an inch? What is 5 spaces? What is one tab stroke?
This font formatting is used to identify longer works that you reference in the paper.
What is italics?
When available, this is the first piece of information for each source listed on your works cited page.
What is the author's last name?
Using outside sources in these two ways require in-text citations.
What are paraphrasing and quoting?
What information do you need to put in the heading of your paper?
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
These are used to format the titles of shorter works (poems, songs, article titles) you discuss in your paper.
What are quotation marks?
When a source has no author listed, this is the first piece of information given in the citation on the works cited page.
What is the title?
Correct this: The study demonstrates that cats are superior to dogs Smith page 24
What is: The study demonstrates that cats are superior to dogs (Smith 24).