MLA Citations

A MLA in-text/paranthetical citation should be located:

• just after the information being cited

• just before the information being cited

• at the bottom of the page

• on the last page of the paper

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

True or false? Only direct quotes need to be cited.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the correct format for a paranthetical MLA citation?

• (Smith 5).

• (Smith p. 5).

• .(Smith 5)

• (Smith, 5).

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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 p. 10).

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

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

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:
Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture. Toronto:
        Random House, 1998.

• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen 7).
  
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (7).
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (The Argument Culture 7).
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen, p. 7).

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

MLA reports are double spaced. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Each paragraph is _____ at the beginning. 

• right aligned 
• centered 
• indented
• single spaced 

What sentence should be at the end of an introductory paragraph?

• attention-grabber
• background
• integrated quote
• thesis

How are multiple sources organized in a Works Cited?

• order of importance
• alphabetically
• order of citations
• randomly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

What is the font size for most MLA documents?

• 8
• 10
• 12
• 14

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2