Paper Formatting Basics
Name a font that you can use when writing a paper following MLA format.
Times New Roman or Arial
Sources are listed in what order on a Works Cited page?
Alphabetical
Your works cited page always appears on a separate page. True or false?
True
If you are paraphrasing information from page 56 of the book Corporate Greed in America written by Shelby Smith, what will your parenthetical citation look like?
( )
(Smith 56)
You should quote all your sources and not put the information into your own words.
False---if all a writer does is quote without paraphrasing, then the writer has not demonstrated the ability to place outside sources into their own words.
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
Double-Spacing
What kind of source is this?
Lundman, Susan. “How to Make Vegetarian Chili.”
eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-
vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.
A page on a website
Double spacing
If you are paraphrasing information found on page 765 in a book written by Gordon Gekko and Budd Fox entitled Why Greed Is Good, what would the parenthetical citation look like?
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(Gekko and Fox 765)
As long as you place information into your own words and place the source of the information on your works cited page, you do not also need to include an in-text citation. True or False?
False---when you paraphrase information, you must also include an in-text citation
8 October 2019
Yes! Invert the date so that the day comes first and then the month
What type of source is this?
The Little Mermaid. Directed by Ron Clements and
John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures, 17 Nov. 1989.
A film
Italics or Quotation Marks?
The page on a website
Quotation Marks
You are reading an online article (with no page numbers) by Susan Jones in the Wall Street Journal about greed on Wall Street. In her article, she quotes Mayor Blomberg. You want to include what the Mayor said in your paper. What will the in-text citation look like?
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(qtd. in Jones)
If you are writing a paper and use two books by the same author, do you list the author's name twice?
No. Use three dashes to indicate that the same author has written the second book>
Haynes, Stephen R. Noah's Curse. Oxford
University Press, 2007.
---. The Last Hour. Oxford University Press, 2012.
What two items of information appear in the upper-right hand header of each page?
Last name and page number
What kind of source is this?
"Mission Statement." SUNY New Paltz,
A page on a website
Italics or quotation marks?
The name of a database or the name of a website
Italics
You are quoting from page 448 of this source below:
"Outsourcing." Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, 7th ed., Gale, 2017, pp. 447-451. Gale eBook, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/.
What will your in-text citation look like?
( )
("Outsourcing 448)
False. Never place an URL in an in-text citation
What items of information appear in the header (on the left-hand side of the first page of your paper, before the title)?
Your name, teacher's name, course name, and date
What type of source is this?
Schroth, Stephen T., and Christian D. Mahone.
"Enron." The Social History of Crime and
Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia,
edited by Wilbur R. Miller, vol. 2, SAGE
Reference, 2012, pp. 539-542. Gale
eBooks, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/
CX4196000231/G.
An encyclopedia article
If a newspaper article does not have an author listed, what appears first in the works cited entry for that source?
The title of the newspaper article
You are paraphrasing information from page 75 of this source:
"Wealth." American Eras: Primary Sources, edited by Rebecca Parks, vol. 1: Development of the Industrial United States, 1878-1899, Gale, 2013, pp. 70-76. Gale eBooks, https://link.gale.com/apps.
What will your in-text citations look like?
("Wealth" 75)
What type of source is this?
Lo, Andrew W. “The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry.” Economic Policy Review (19320426), vol. 22, no. 1, Aug. 2016, pp. 17–42. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx.
An article in a periodical, specifically a scholarly journal