Paper Formatting Basics 1
This is the correct font required for MLA format.
These are what go in the top right corner of each page. HINT - there are 2 things
What are your last name and the page number?
This is the first thing that goes at the very top of the Works Cited page.
In-text citations are contained within what type of punctuation?
What are parentheses?
This is a set of formatting and citation guidelines for writing within the humanities fields.
What is the MLA style guide (often shortened to just MLA)?
This is the line spacing required for MLA format.
What is double-spacing?
This is where the Works Cited page must be.
At the end of the paper.
This is the spacing required for all elements on an MLA Works Cited page.
What is double-spacing? (Just like the rest of the document text).
This is where an in-text citation should go in relation to a period or other closing punctuation mark. Example: "The poet Sylvia Plath wrote a lot about the difficulties of motherhood."
If you were citing this, where would the in-text citation go?
What is after the period?
The major professional organization for publications, resources, and networks within the humanities.
What is the Modern Language Association?
What are one-inch margins?
This is how the title should be aligned in an MLA-formatted document.
What is center alignment?
This is the type of punctuation used to identify shorter works that are contained within a larger collection, journal, or source. These shorter works may be articles within a magazine, essays within an anthology, individual podcast episodes within a larger podcast series, etc.
What are quotation marks?
This citation is formatted ____. (Correctly or incorrectly?)
Anime Studies scholar Ally McTeague found that "TikTok helped create a boom in the anime fandom" (46).
What is "correctly"?
A set of academic disciplines that study culture, society, human nature, and the ways that people create.
What are the humanities?
This is the proper way to indicate the start of a new paragraph in MLA format.
What is using the "Tab" key to indent?
This is the side of the paper that the document (minus the title) should be located on.
This should be the first piece of listed information in a single Works Cited citation.
What is the author's name? OR, more specifically, what is the author's last name, followed by the author's first name?
Example: Smith, Joe.
These are the components that make up an in-text citation. HINT - there are 2.
The author's last name and the page number where the quote or information was found. Example: (Smith 102).
This is something that might feel like cheating, but you are actually allowed to do it.
What is use MLA resources, citation generators, and citation guides?
In order from top to bottom, this is the information that should be in the heading on the top of your paper.
What is your name, your teacher's name, the course name, and the assignment due date? Example:
Joey Joe
Professor Smith
English 1102
27 September, 2026
This is the way the due date should be formatted in MLA headings.
What is day first, then month, then year?
Example: 15 September, 2026
This is a special type of indent that should be used to differentiate between citations on the Works Cited page.
What is a hanging indent?
Another name for in-text citations.
What are parenthetical citations?
This is one of the reasons that it's beneficial to adhere to the MLA style guide.
Uniformity and clarity helps keep things from becoming confusing.
You look more professional and credible (ethos) when you can format correctly within the field you're writing for.
Your readers will benefit from your ability to use clear and correct citations and formatting (audience awareness) because this makes communication more effective.