MLA and Sentence Structure AP Seminar

How are entries organized on a Works Cited page?

• Alphabetically
• In the order they appear in the paper.
• By length
• Randomly

One purpose of a Works Cited page is to

• Show readers from where your information came.
• To add length to a paper.
• To stress out students
• To prove information in the paper is true.

A citation entry should be alphabetized by:

• Title
• Author's first name
• Author's last name
• Publisher

When documenting one author in reference in a text, which is correct?

• This point has been argued before (Frye 197).

• This point has been argued before. (Glenn Frye, 197)

• This point has been argued before. (Frye 197)

• This point has been argued before. (Frye 197)

When documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct?

• Frye has argued this point before (Frye 197).

• Frye has argued this point before. (197).

• Frye has argued this point before. (Frye, 197).

• Frye has argued this point before (197).

If a source does not have an author, what typically is listed first in the Works Cited entry and placed (abbreviated) in the in-text citation?

• Publisher

• Title of the Article or Source

• Year of Publication

If the source is part of a larger work, a title is placed in

• quotation marks 

• italics

If the source is self-contained and independent, for example, a book is a whole unto itself, the title is put in

• italics

• quotation marks

The use of ellipses . . . allow you to primarily do what to a quotation?

• A

  Change a quotation

• Shorten or Omit words

• Add to a quotation

• Clarify a quotation

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