Essay Format
This is the appropriate margin size that your paper should be set to.
What is one inch?
This refers to the works of others and provides relevant source information in parenthesis.
What is a parenthetical citation?
This is the font type and size necessary for a properly formatted MLA essay.
What is Times New Roman and 12pt?
Citing sources properly is important in order to avoid this.
What is plagiarism?
This type of punctuation is needed at the end of every citation.
What is a period?
This is the proper spacing option for your essay.
What is double spacing?
This is the method of citations followed by MLA format.
What is author-page style?
These are not required, but may be used to help separate ideas within an MLA essay.
What are headings?
MLA is the acronym for these three words.
What is the Modern Language Association?
The Works Cited page needs to be its own __________ __________.
What is separate page?
These components must be included in your essay's heading.
What is...
Your Name, Instructor's Name, Course, and Date?
This is the component needed to correspond (match) an in-text citation to the works cited page.
What is the author's last name (if provided) otherwise a signal word or phrase?
This component of a paper is not required, UNLESS specifically requested by your instructor.
What is a title page?
This is the main reason that we should evaluate our sources.
What is to make sure they are credible and reliable?
This is the order in which your sources should be listed on your Works Cited Page.
What is alphabetical order?
This is the amount of spacing required between each paragraph.
What is double spacing with no extra spaces?
If the author of a text is known, these TWO items must be included in your in-text citation.
What is the author's last name and page number?
This is not a direct quote, but should still be cited even if though the words are in a different order than the original text.
What is a paraphrase?
This is what is included in a parenthetical citation if a source has TWO authors.
What are (both last names and page #)
This is the type of indentation needed for the second line of a citation on your Works Cited page.
What is a hanging indentation?
This component of your essay is located in the top right hand corner and includes your last name and page number.
What is the running header?
If the author of a source is unknown, these TWO items should be provided in your in-text citation.
What are a shortened title of the work and the page number?
If credit is not given to an author in the quote's introduction sentence, this needs to be included in the parenthetical citation along with the page number.
What is the (author's last name)?
This is what a parenthetical citation looks like if the author is unknown.
What is (shortened title of the work and page #)?
This is the name of the online location where all sources can be found. This needs to be included for all electronic citations.
What is the URL or DOI?
This is the proper procedure when including titles of other works in your essay.
What is to italicize or place them in quotes?
What is the author's last name?
What are the source medium (print, web) & the source's entry on the Works Cited page?
This what an indirect print source starts with in a parenthetical citation.
What is (qtd.)?
These pieces do not need to be capitalized in the name of a title of an article or a book.
What are articles and prepositions?