All About MLA

MLA stands for:

• Multi Language Application

• Many Lucky Authors

• Modern Language Association

• Must Like Associations

MLA uses what size font?

• 10

• 12

• 18

• What's a font?

Text in MLA format must be double-spaced. This means:

• there are two spaces between every work

• there are two spaces between every line

• the paper can be read twice as fast as another

• I need two copies of everything

Papers must be typed in legible, professional font. Examples include: (mark all correct fonts)

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In MLA style, what do you do to the first line of each paragraph?

• Indent it 5 spaces by hitting the Tab button

• Ignore it

• What is a paragraph?

• Leave it alone and let it be

The correct format for in-text citations in MLA is:

• (Edwards) 10

• "Edwards 10"

• 10 Edwards

• (Edwards 10)

In an MLA paper, your last name and page number should be included where?

• Wherever they want to be

• Top left header of each page

• Top right header of each page

• Bottom center of each page

Where is this information found in an MLA paper?

• Every page in the top left

• Last page after the phrase, "Sincerely Yours,"

• Centered on the first page

• Top left of the first page

Margins for an MLA paper are:

• 1 inch on all sides

• What are margins?

• 1 inch on the top and bottom and .5 on the sides

• 2 inches on all sides

When required, the correct way to type the title of an MLA paper is:

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