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Paper Formatting Basics
Paper Formatting Basics (2)
Works Cited
In-Text Quote Citations
100
Any of these fonts can be used in an MLA formatted paper.
What are Times New Roman, Ariel, or Calibri
100
This is the info you would include when numbering your pages.
What is your last name and page number? DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
100
The works cited page should go on this.
What is a separate piece of paper from your paper?
100
What must the quote be in when citing it from a book, article, etc.?
What are quotation marks?
200
This spacing should be used throughout the whole paper.
What is double spacing?
200
This is where you'll find the header if the paper is correctly formatted.
What is right side of the page at 1/2 and inch from top margin
200
The spacing to be used on a Works Cited page.
What is double spacing?
200
When citing a quote, the period goes here.
What is after the closing parenthesis?
300
The margins on all four sides should be set to this width
What is one inch?
300
Do you need a cover page?
What is no? (unless specifically told otherwise)
300
The sort of indentation used on a Works Cited page
What is a hanging indent?
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
According to MLA rules, indentations should be a half an inch. This key on the keyboard will indent the right distance automatically.
What is the tab key?
400
This is the only thing about your title that should be different from the rest of the paper.
What is centered?
400
When identifying the title of longer works (books, magazines, etc.), what must you do to the title?
What is italicize it?
400
Correct this: She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
500
All of these things can be found in the heading of your MLA formatted paper.
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date?
500
Fix this title for a full length book so that it properly formatted: Oh, the places you'll go!
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (in italics)
500
When referencing the title of shorter works (poems, articles, chapters, songs, etc.) you do this with the title.
What is put the title in quotation marks?
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).