MLA Formatting
The correct size and type of font for writing a paper in MLA format.
What is 12 pt font and easy to read?
This goes inside the parentheses of an in-text citation.
What is the author's last name and page number?
Find and correct the mistake:
Tolkien’s character Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” (Annotated Hobbit 226).
You do not need to include the title of the book in the in-text citation.
Tolkien’s character Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” (226).
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In a Works Cited page, the sources are arranged...
What is alphabetically, by the author's last name?
You need this at the top of each page.
What is your name and page number?
When you have an in-text citation, the period should go here.
What is after the in-text citation?
Find and correct the mistake:
She stated: "I'm going to try. I really am" (26).
The author's last name is missing. You must include it either before the quotation, or in the in-text citation.
Lopez stated: "I'm going to try. I really am" (26).
She stated: "I'm going to try. I really am" (Lopez 26).
If you include an in-text citation in your essay, you also need to list the source here.
What is the Works Cited page?
If you do not know the author's last name, where should you place a source in the Works Cited page?
What is alphabetically, by title? (Example below).
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter...
"Someset Tides". New York...
Tucker, Samuel. Wild Card.
The margins should be this wide.
What is one inch?
When you copy the textual evidence from the book, word for word, you need to include these punctuation marks to avoid accidental plagiarism.
What are quotation marks?
Find and correct the mistake:
"Nothing was proven." (Sanderson 23).
The period should always go on the other side of the in-text citation:
Nothing was proven (Sanderson 23).
True or false: it is possible to plagiarize unintentionally.
TRUE. Accidentally forgetting a quotation mark or leaving off a citation is still plagiarism.
If the Works Cited entry is longer than one line, what should you do?
What is indent the second line? Note: you only need to do this if the entry is LONGER than one line. If it is shorter, let it all stay on the same line.
Your Name, My Name, Your Section Number, The Date
What is the MLA header?
Whenever you refer to a book by its title, you need to use this format.
What is underlined or italicized?
Find and correct the mistake:
"I'm not going anywhere," I promised Amber (Rawl 71).
In an essay, double quotation marks indicate that everything inside the marks is directly from the source, and everything outside is in your own words. So when you are citing a piece of dialogue, you must replace the author's double-quotation marks with single ones to make your own quotation marks stand out.
" ' I'm not going anywhere,' I promised Amber" (Rawl 71).
True or false: In an in-text citation, you need to put both the author's first and last name.
FALSE. You only need the author's last name and page number.
True or false: You do not need to cite information that you take from a website.
FALSE. You must cite all sources, regardless of what type they are.
The MLA header goes here.
What is the top of the first page, on the left?
True or false: you do NOT need an in-text citation if you are paraphrasing.
FALSE. You always need to cite whenever you are taking an idea from someone else.
Find and correct the mistake:
Harrison writes: He craned his neck until he saw it (harrison 273.).
There are several mistakes here. You only need the author's name once. You must include quotation marks when you are citing word-for-word. You must capitalize the author's last name.
Harrison writes: "He craned his neck until he saw it" (773).
True or false: You should cite everything inspired by the source.
FALSE. You should cite all information taken from the source (either quoted or paraphrased), but you do not need to cite your analysis of that source.
These are three potential consequences of plagiarism, whether committed accidentally or intentionally.
1) A zero on the assignment.
2) Failing the class.
3) Expulsion.