Research: MLA Format & Works Cited

If your article title is more than four words, how are you supposed to shorten it for your in-text citation?

• Use the first two words

• Use the first four words

• Use only the first word

• None; leave the entire title

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

What goes in a parenthetical/ in-text citation?

• The date the article was published

• The author's last name and page number (if applicable)

• Just the page number

• The name of the website

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

You are only required to use an in-text citation when:

• You directly quote from a source

• You paraphrase a source

• neither A nor B

• both A and B

The place where you record all the sources you used in your paper is called

• source list

• works cited

• parenthetical documentation

• none of these

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

CCSS.W.9-10.8

If the source doesn't list an author, what do you use for the in-text citation?

• just the page number

• no citation is required then

• the name of the article

• the name of the article in quotation marks

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

If you take a piece of text word for word from one of your sources, you indicate this by:

• enclosing the words in quotation marks

• putting the words in parentheses

• underlining the words

• you don't have to do anything special in this situation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.2B

CCSS.W.9-10.8

Where does the period go in a sentence that uses an in-text citation?

• after the sentence ends, but before the parenthesis

• after the parentheses

• inside the parenthesis

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

What is the in-text citation for the following source:

"Federal Minimum Wage: Is The Federal Minimum Wage Good For The Economy?" Issues & Controversies,

• (Issues & Controversies)

• (Federal Minimum Wage)

• ("Federal Minimum Wage")

• "Federal Minimum Wage: Is The Federal Minimum Wage Good For The Economy?"

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

CCSS.W.9-10.8

What is the in-text citation for the following source:

Smith, Patricia. “New Life For the ERA”. UpFront Magazine, Scholastic.

• (Smith)

• ("New Life for the Era")

• (Upfront)

• None of the above)

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

An MLA citation is required for each source that you used in your paper, and each is listed separately on the Works cited page.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.3A

CCSS.W.9-10.8