MLA Formatting

According to MLA, song titles should be…​ ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• Placed in quotation marks
• Shorted to just one major word or phrase
• Italicized

According to MLA, novel titles should be…​ ​ (a)  

• Italicized
• Placed in quotation marks
• Shorted to just one major word or phrase

According to MLA, newspaper titles should be…​ ​ (a)  

• Italicized
• Placed in quotation marks
• Shorted to just one major word or phrase

When is “et al.” used in a parenthetical citation?​ ​ (a)  

• When there are three or more authors
• When there is an editor
• When there are two or more authors

What is MANDATORY to include in a novel citation?​ (a)  

• Author Last Name and Page # (Joyce 33).
• The city where it was published. (NYC).

If a writer "paraphrases" (puts a quote in her own words), she ​ (a)  

• does need a citation following the paraphrase.
• does not need to give any credit.

What date would be used on the Works Cited page if a book or source has been published multiple times?​ ​ (a)  

• The MOST recent date published.
• The oldest date published.

What are the MOST important pieces of information that you would use within your In-text Citations?

• Author's Last Name

• Title of book

• Title of container (magazine, publication).

• Other contributors

• Version

What is the correct parenthetical citation for the following passage from Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Act:  4   Scene 2 lines 29-31

• (Shakespeare 4.2.29-31)

• (Macbeth 4.2.29-31)

• (Shakespeare, 4.2.29-31)

Sources WITH authors are always considered reliable.​ (a)  

• FALSE
• True