MLA In Text Citations

What do you include in an in-text citation?

• author's last name and page number

• book title and page number

• author's last name and book title

• author's first and last name

You put your in-text citation inside of...

• "quotation marks"

• (parentheses)

• [brackets]

• $dollar signs$

Which of these in-text citations is formatted correctly?

• (Roth 179)

• (Oats, 35)

• "To Kill a Mockingbird 23"

• [Romeo and Juliet 125]

Which of of these in-text citations is formatted correctly?

• (Cisneros 23)

• (Harry Potter 73)

• (Donald Trump 45)

• (Miller, 4)

Why do we cite our sources?

• To get an A on our assignment

• To show our reader where we got our information

• To use quotation marks

• To write our topic sentence

When do you use "quotion marks?"

• When you copy a direct quote from the author.

• When you write the author's idea but use your own words.

• When you write your own idea.

• When you aren't sure who wrote it.

You don't have to use an in-text citation when you write the author's idea in your own words.

• true

• false

You don't have to write an in-text citation when you copy the author and use "quotation marks."

• true

• false

You don't have to use an in-text citation when you write your own idea about the author's work.

• true

• false

You do not have to put the author's last name in (parentheses) if you use it in your sentence.

• true

• false