MLA Formatting

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

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

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TEKS.ELA.E1.5A

TEKS.ELA.E1.5E

TEKS.ELA.E2.11H

TEKS.ELA.E2.5E

TEKS.ELA.E3.5E

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

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

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TEKS.ELA.D.6A

TEKS.ELA.E1.5E

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

TEKS.ELA.J.3F

TEKS.ELA.RI.6B

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

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

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TEKS.ELA.E1.11E

TEKS.ELA.E1.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E1.5E

TEKS.ELA.E2.11E

TEKS.ELA.E4.11F

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

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TEKS.ELA.CR.1A

TEKS.ELA.E2.5E

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

TEKS.ELA.ISJ.1C

TEKS.ELA.J.3C

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

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

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TEKS.ELA.E1.5A

TEKS.ELA.E2.5A

TEKS.ELA.E3.4I

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

TEKS.ELA.E4.11F

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.

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TEKS.ELA.E2.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.11E

TEKS.ELA.E3.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.5A

TEKS.ELA.E4.11F

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.

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TEKS.ELA.CA.4C

TEKS.ELA.E2.11F

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

TEKS.ELA.E4.5E

TEKS.ELA.RTW.3B

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

• Title of container (magazine, publication).

• Title of book

• Author's Last Name

• Version

• Other contributors

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TEKS.ELA.E2.5E

TEKS.ELA.E3.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.4I

TEKS.ELA.E4.11F

TEKS.ELA.E4.4I

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)

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TEKS.ELA.D.6A

TEKS.ELA.E2.11E

TEKS.ELA.E3.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.5E

TEKS.ELA.J.3F

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

• FALSE
• True

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TEKS.ELA.E1.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E2.11F

TEKS.ELA.E2.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.11E

TEKS.ELA.E4.11G.II