MLA Format
These five details belong on the cover page
What are student's name, teacher name, class, date and title?
When using a source word-for-word, you need these pieces of punctuation - at the beginning and at the end.
What are quotation marks?
Even if you put a fact in your own words, you still need to do this.
What is cite your source?
This is the correct location for end punctuation in a sentence that contains a citation.
What is after the citation?
This portion of the research paper lists the sources cited in the essay.
What is the Works Cited page?
The header containing the student's last name and page number belongs here.
What is the top right corner of the page?
Before you use a quote in your research, you need to do this.
What is introduce your quote?
When you do this, you restate the original text in similar words and in a shorter way.
What is summarize?
This type of fact does not require a citation.
What is common knowledge?
Assuming that all information for a source is available, an entry on a Works Cited page starts with this.
What is the author's last name?
The entire research paper should use this font, size, and spacing?
What is Times New Roman, 12pt font, double spaced?
If you use an author's name to introduce a quote, you only need to include this in your citation.
What is the page number?
If all you do is modify a quotation with synonyms here and there, it is still considered this.
What is plagiarism?
A proper MLA in-text citation includes these items.
What are the author's last name and page number OR the title of the article.
Works cited entries needs to be in this order
What is alphabetical
This is the correct way to format the title of a novel, movie, or magazine.
What is italics (or italicized)?
If you want to remove words from a quote in order to shorten it, you use this.
What is and ellipsis (or 3 dots)?
This is the best way to paraphrase.
What is make sure you understand the original source, look away, and explain the idea in your own words?
This is another name for in-text citations.
What is parenthetical citations or internal citations?
(will accept one or both)
True or False: It is acceptable to have source listed in your Works Cited that you do not cite in your paper.
What is False?
These types of words are not formal enough for research writing and should be avoided.
What are 1st and 2nd pronouns and contractions?
Avoid I, me, we, our, us, and you. Write out contractions.
After a direct quote, you need to do this.
What is explain or interpret how the information relates to the thesis.
If you have several quotes that are all related, what can you do to combine them and avoid having quote after quote?
What is paraphrase?
This is the proper way to format an in-text citation for a direct quote from page 119 of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Please write your response on your dry erase board.
What is (Lee 119). ?
Works cited entries are formatted in this special way.
What is the first line of each source should be flush against the left side, while the second line (if any) should be indented one-half inch. The entire page should be double spaced.