General Formatting
These are the 3 major aspects of an outline's organization.
What are introduction, body, and conclusion?
This is the heading of the final page in an outline using MLA style citations.
What is Works Cited?
This is the heading of the final page in an outline using APA style citations.
What is References?
This is the number of sources - and thus verbal citations - required for the persuasive speech.
What is 4?
Instead of full-sentence, this is the type of outline you should use for this class.
What is keyword or delivery outline?
When citing an article (academic and popular alike), these grammatical markings should appear around the title.
What are quotation marks?
(e.g. "This is My Article.")
When citing an article (academic and popular alike), this is how you should format the article's title.
What is italicization?
This is the author information that you should include in every verbal citation.
What is first and last name?
These should be present between your introduction/body, main point 1/2, main point 2/3, and main point 3/conclusion.
What are transition statements?
If Bruce Banner is the sole author of a source, this is the correct way to write his name in your Works Cited entry.
What is Banner, Bruce?
If J. Jonah Jameson is the sole author of a source, this is the correct way to write his name in your References list entry.
What is Jameson, J. J.?
This is the title information that you should include in every verbal citation.
What is the full title of the work?
This part of your introduction should be typed in bold font before submitting your outline.
What is the thesis statement?
When you include a website URL in a Works Cited entry, this is the first part of the URL that should be present.
What is www.?
This is the maximum number of years before the current date that APA still considers to be recent.
What is 5 years?
This is the publication date information you should include in every verbal citation.
What is the year of publication?
Both APA's and MLA's end-page list of sources includes this on every line after the first of a given source. (See PowerPoint slide.)
What is a half-inch or hanging indent?
All aspects of a Works Cited list entry have a proper order in which they should appear. This spot is where a website URL should be (assuming date of access is not applicable).
What is last?
When including the publication date of a work in your References list, this is the order in which the date's information should be written.
What is Year, Month Date?
This is when you should use verbal citations.
What is every time you use information from a source?