MLA Works Cited

Why should students use MLA Format?

• To avoid plagiarism

• Because teachers say they should

• To make a paper harder

• Students shouldn't use it

If you don't have an author to cite, what do you do for an in-text citation?

• Use the title of the article, and PUT IT IN ALL CAPS

• Use the title of the article instead, and put it in quotes

• Use the URL

• Just skip it and do nothing

A Work Cited page includes

• citations for any in-text citations in my essay

• only author/title information for my sources.

• citations for all sources used in the writing of my essay.

• web addresses for all citations.

Citations on a work cited page are

• numbered to show each new citation.

• are alphabetical by the source titles.

• are alphabetical by author last name/title of resource.

• are listed in order of appearance in my essay.

Citations appear in the following format:

• all lines of citation out to the left margin.

• double space between each citation.

• all lines of citation centered on page.

• first line of citation to the left margin and all others indented 5 space.

The heading for a work cited page is

• in bold.

• centered.

• centered and underlined.

• bold centered and underlined.

The header on my work cited page is

• last name, page #

• omitted. A work cited page has no header.

• last name page #

Every citation on my work cited page

• has an in-text citation in the body of my essay.

• is a resource that was used to write my essay.

Why should you create a Works Cited page?

• To avoid breaking copyright laws

• To give credit to all your sources

• To make your teacher happy

• To make your paper look more official

How should you organize your entries on a Works Cited page?

• List each entry by type of source: book, magazines, websites, etc.

• List each entry in the order you used them for research

• List each entry alphabetically by the first word in the citation

• There is no specific way to organize a Works Cited page