Paper Formatting Basics
What font do you need to use for MLA format?
What is Times New Roman?
This is what is found on a running header.
What is your last name and page number?
This is the order used for listing the sources used in your Works Cited.
What is alphabetical order?
This is what you use when referring to the works of others in your text.
What is a parenthetical citation? Or, What is an in-text citation?
What spacing is needed for MLA format?
What is double spacing?
When writing a complete entry of a website for the Works Cited page, this is the information that immediately follows the title of the web page.
What is the publisher of the web page?
This is where your Works Cited page begins.
What is a separate page at the end of the research paper?
When a student copies text from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, this is the first piece of information inside the parentheses.
What is Covey? (or, What is the author's last name?)
What margins are needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page?
What is one inch margins?
This is the last piece of information provided on the Works Cited page for a website article.
What is Date Accessed?
This is the font style used for a book title.
What is italics?
When a student copies text from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, this follows the author's last name inside the parentheses.
What is page number?
When indenting a paragraph, this is the number of spaces indented in MLA format.
What is 5 spaces?
When citing a YouTube video in your Works Cited page, this is the piece of information that follows the italicized YouTube.
What is uploaded by?
When writing your complete entry for an article found on a website, this is what surrounds the name of the article.
What are quotation marks?
When a source has no known author, and a student references information from that source (such as a YouTube video), this goes inside the parentheses instead of the author's last name.
What is a shortened title of the work?
These are the four pieces of information that come before the title of your paper.
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date (number first, month second)?
This is the University that created an OWL, or Online Writing Lab website that students should visit when needing answers to these jeopardy questions.
What is Purdue?
This is the part of the Works Cited entry that is italicized for a website article.
What is the title of the web page, or website?
This is what to use when you want to use an indirect source, a quote from someone who is quoted in the source you're using in your works cited.
What is qtd. in?