MLA format

Multiple Choice

According to MLA guidelines, what information should be included in the heading?

• Your name, course title and the date

• Your name and the date

• The course title, instructor's name, and date

• Your name, the instructor's name, course title, and date

Multiple Choice

According to MLA Guidelines, what should the spacing of the paper be?

• Single Spaced

• 1.5 spacing

• Double Spaced

• It doesn't matter

Multiple Choice

According to MLA guidelines, what should the font size be?

• 10 point font

• 12 point font

• 14 point font

• 20 point font

Multiple Choice

According to MLA guidelines, what should the font style be?

• Times New Roman

• Calligraphy

• Gothic Bold

• Comic Sans

Match

Match the following

• Paraphrase

• Direct Plagiarism

• In-Text Citation

• Works Cited

Putting someone else's thoughts and ideas into your own words

Using someone's work without proper attribution

Cited information from a source in your work.

Full alphabetized list of all sources cited in-text

• Putting someone else's thoughts and ideas into your own words

• Using someone's work without proper attribution

• Cited information from a source in your work.

• Full alphabetized list of all sources cited in-text

Multiple Choice

How do you show a new paragraph is starting?

• Indent using tab

• Indent using the space bar

• Put an extra space using the enter key

• Intend using tab AND using an extra space with the enter key

Multiple Choice

What must be included in an in-text citation?

• Author's full name and page number

• Author's last name and page number

• Page number

• Hyperlink to the source

Multiple Choice

Which in-text citation is correct?

• (Ashley Renick)

• (Ashley Renick 3)

• (Renick pg 3)

• (Renick 3)

Multiple Choice

Which in-text citation is correct?

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Tommy Orange 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Orange 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Orange pg 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (118)

Multiple Choice

MLA requires a separate title page. 

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Why should students use MLA Format?

• To avoid plagiarism
• Because teachers say they should
• To make a paper harder
• Students shouldn't use it

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the page where you give credit to authors whose work you used in a paper?

• Reference Page
• Works Cited
• Bibliography 
• Sources

Multiple Choice

How is the Works Cited page arranged?

• Alphabetically, by title of the work
• Alphabetically, by the author's first name
• Alphabetically, by the author's last name
• By publication year

Multiple Choice

You do not need to include in-text citations when summarizing or paraphrasing information from an outside source. 

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Direct quotations MUST be put in between..

• (Parenthesis)

• "Quotation Marks"

• [Brackets]

• ...ellipses...

Multiple Choice

Citations MUST be put in between..

• (Parenthesis)

• "Quotation Marks"

• [Brackets]

• ...ellipses...

Multiple Choice

In a Works Cited page, when you site a website, is the URL included?

• YES

• NO

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the proper way to use parenthetical citation?

• "This point has been argued before" (Frye).

• "This point has been argued before." (Frye)

• "This point has been argued before." (Frye).

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is correct?

• Fry argues, "this is the main problem" (Frye).

• Fry argues, "this is the main problem."

• Fry argues, "this is the main problem." (Frye)

Multiple Choice

You should not put the author's name in parentheses if you state it in your sentence.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

In your essay itself, titles of novels, films, and television shows should be:

• in italics

• underlined.

• in quotes.

Multiple Choice

What's the correct order for your paper heading?

• Your name, teacher name, class, date

• Your name, date, class, teacher

• Your name, date, teacher, class

Multiple Choice

In your essay, the titles of shorter works like songs, poems, short stories, and short films should be:

• in quotes

• in italics

• underlined

MLA Formatting

Modern Language Association

Multiple Choice

The font you use does not matter as long as it's professional.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

When a line break appears in a song or poem you're quoting, you indicate the line break with:

• a comma

• the enter key

• a slash

MLA Formatting

Humanities

MLA Formatting is generally used in the following disciplines:

• English-Language and Literature

• Foreign Languages and Literature

• Literary Criticism

• Comparative Literature

• Cultural Studies​

Paper Formatting

• Font: 12 point, Times New Roman

• Spacing: Double

• Margins: 1 inch

• Name and Title: Centered and Title Case

• Heading

  • Your name

  • Instructor's Name

  • Course

  • Date

Paraphrase: Putting someone else's thoughts and ideas into your own words

Direct ​Plagiarism: Using another's work without attribution

In-Text Citation​: Internal documentation of source information

Works Cited: Full alphabetized list of all​ sources cited within your paper

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​Important Terms

Citing Sources

When do I cite?

Cite any and all outside information that is not considered common knowledge

• Author Page Style: (Smith 78)

• 2 Authors: ​(Johnson and Smith 36)

• 3+ Authors: (Johnson et al.​ 196)

• ​No Author: Title in quotation marks (shorter selections)/italicized for longer pieces

  • ("Reading Comprehension" ​3) or (Philosophy of Education 19)

Multiple Choice

Why do we use MLA format in academic papers?

• To give the paper a makeover and make it a visual treat

• To bring a sense of uniformity, making it a breeze for readers to navigate through

• To sneakily bump up the word count

• Just to keep up with the global writing trends

Multiple Choice

What does MLA actually stand for?

• Modern Language Association

• Modern Linguistic Application

• Multiple Language Association

• Modern Learning Association

Multiple Choice

📚✨📚 Where should the magical 'works cited' page be placed in an MLA formatted paper?

• 🌟 At the beginning of the document, like a grand entrance!

• 👣 In the footer of each page, leaving little breadcrumbs.

• 🎉 On its own page at the end of the document, like a grand finale!

• 📖 Integrated within the main text, mingling with the words.

Multiple Choice

Why do we use in-text citations in MLA format?

• To provide a detailed explanation of the source

• To give the audience enough information to find the citation on the works cited page

• To interrupt the reader's flow with detailed source information

• To replace the works cited page

Multiple Choice

🌟 Where does the sneaky in-text citation love to hide in a sentence?

• At the mysterious beginning of the sentence

• Right after the quote, like a shadow

• At the very end, like the final piece of a puzzle

• In the middle, causing a little chaos

Multiple Choice

The first page of an MLA document includes:

• Student name
  Teacher Name
  Date
• Student Name
  Date
• Student Name
  Title of paper
  Date
• Student name
  Teacher name
  Course
  Date

Multiple Choice

When you quote a source word for word or include information that is not common knowledge, you must cite the source to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism probably means...

• getting the wrong information

• use of another person's ideas without giving credit

• copying the work of an expert

• copying a classmate

Multiple Choice

When you quote a source word for word or include information that is not common knowledge, you must cite the source to avoid plagiarism. What do you think they mean by "information that is not common knowledge?"

• information that is not known by most people

• information that is no longer considered to be fact

• information that is considered old fashioned

Multiple Choice

Which of the following bits of information is common knowledge and would NOT need a citation.

• “The archaeological record indicates that for millennia, starting 6,000 years ago, the country boasted 35% forest cover. Slow, gradual deforestation—likely for agriculture—reduced that number to 11% by the 1980s, even as Soviet rule brought huge monoculture plantations (tracts of a single species, usually pines) to the region” (Greenberg).

• “The cuttlefish has one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of any invertebrate, perhaps even larger than that of the octopus” (PBS).

• “leaves fall off trees when they aren’t doing their job any more” (Nunell).

A parenthetical citation gives basic information about the source of a quote immediately after the quote, in the same sentence. The information in the parenthetical citation will correspond to an entry on your works cited page, which will include more complete information about the source, such as publisher and date. (CollegeBoard 205)

To use a parenthetical citation, write the author's last name (and a page number if available) in parentheses at the end of the sentence.

“… became known collectively as Jim Crow” (Edmonds 7).

 If no author is given, use the title or (for a very long title) the first words of the title. 

“… was actually supported by Plessy v. Ferguson” (“The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow”).

 If the author's name is used to introduce the quote, give only the page number in parentheses. Place your citation outside the quotation marks, but inside the closing punctuation of the sentence.

As Rick Edmonds notes, “such diverse things as separate public facilities and laws restricting voting rights became known collectively as Jim Crow” (7).

Multiple Choice

What is the correct format for a paranthetical MLA citation?

• (Smith 5).

• .(Smith 5)

• (Smith p. 5).

• (Smith, 5).

Multiple Choice

Select which in-text citation is properly done from the options below:

• "Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately" (Smith 10).

• "Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately." (Smith 10)

• "Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately." (Smith p. 10).

• (Smith 10) "Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately."

Multiple Choice

Choose the answer choice that uses correct MLA format.

• Orwell says "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." (Orwell 1).

• Orwell says"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell 1).

• Orwell says "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (1).

• Orwell says "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell, 1).

​As you get older the definition of academic honesty becomes more and more complex:

·       When you are little, you are told that it is wrong to copy someone else’s work on a test.

·        When you get a bit older, you learn that it is wrong to use someone else’s

words and pretend that you wrote them.

·       When you get older, you learn that it is wrong to use someone’s IDEAS without

acknowledging where they came from.

​It is important that you understand exactly what plagiarism is, because it is quite easy to plagiarize by accident.

​As you get older, the consequences of academic dishonesty also get more severe:

• If you get caught copying in elementary school and middle school, you will probably just get a zero on the test and have the teacher tell your parents.

• If you plagiarize on your IGCSE coursework, you will fail the whole course.

• If you plagiarize on your IB Diploma Coursework, you will fail the whole diploma.

• If you plagiarize in university, you will be expelled.

• If you plagiarize as an adult, you could be sued.

​1)   Never copy other people’s tests or homework assignments.

• This is dishonest. It is also counter-productive, because the purpose of tests and assignments is to help you to learn. If you don’t do the assignment yourself, you will not learn anything from it.

​What if you haven’t done the homework?

Sometimes students resort to copying when they haven’t done their homework for some reason and they are afraid the teacher will be angry. In fact, although teachers don’t LIKE late work, it is a lot better than plagiarized work. If you haven’t done the assignment, speak to your teacher about it. Make it clear that you are sorry (teachers usually understand about late work, but they don’t like it when students don’t seem to care about the fact that the work is late) and then complete the assignment and hand it as soon as possible. 

​2)   When you are doing research, never cut and paste from the internet and then go through and change a few words. It is not enough just to change a few words:

​Instead, either take notes in point form and the write up your notes in your own words, or cover up the original and summarize it in your own words. Even if your version is entirely in your own words, it is a good idea to include a reference to the original and you MUST put the original source in your bibliography Look at the example below:

​3)   Include all of the sources that you use, including pictures, in your bibliography. (See below)

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General Bibliography Tips:

• Hanging Indent

  The first word in each bibliography entry should be level with the margin. If the bibliography entry takes up two or more lines, the second and third lines should be indented slightly so that the first word sticks out to the left. This is because when you refer to the sources in the bibliography, you use the first word, so it needs to be easy to find.

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• ​Alphabetical Order

  Your sources should be listed in alphabetical order according to the first word in the bibliography entry, (unless that word is “a” or “the”). If the first word is “a” or “the”, alphabetize according to the second word. This means the following source would be alphabetized according to the word “Blessing”, not the word “The”:

• ​Use italics for the titles of long works:

  Italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, artworks, web sites (not web pages) newspapers, and films.

 

• Use quotation marks for titles of short works:

  Photographs, articles and short poems should be in quotation marks.

 

• Punctuation

  Pay attention to the punctuation between different elements of each bibliography entry.

Multiple Choice

When should you add a parenthetical in-text citation?

• Whenever you quote a source.

• Whenever you paraphrase a source.

• Whenever you use a statistic from a source.

• Whenever you use a fact that isn’t in every source.

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct format for a parenthetical in-text citation from page 24 of The Move to Global War by Keely Rogers and Jo Thomas?

• “Following China’s defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, European powers gained extraordinary economic and legal privileges on Chinese soil” (Rogers, Keely and Thomas, Jo, page 24).

• “Following China’s defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, European powers gained extraordinary economic and legal privileges on Chinese soil” (Rogers, Keely and Thomas, Jo, p. 24).

• “Following China’s defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, European powers gained extraordinary economic and legal privileges on Chinese soil” (Rogers, Keely and Thomas, Jo, 24).

• “Following China’s defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, European powers gained extraordinary economic and legal privileges on Chinese soil” (Rogers and Thomas 24).

• “Following China’s defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, European powers gained extraordinary economic and legal privileges on Chinese soil” (Rogers and Thomas, 24).

Multiple Choice

If you are writing a parenthetical in-text citation for a source that has no page numbers, what should you do?

• Count the paragraphs and use the paragraph number

• Count the lines and use the line numbers.

• Write “n. pag.” Instead of the page number.

• Just leave the page number out.