Mla Format Answers – Flashcards
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What does "MLA" stand for?
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Modern Language Association
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What is the proper format for an MLA heading?
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Name Teachers name The course name (For us section color) Due date (Day- month-year)
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Should your heading be single-spaced or double-spaced?
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Double spaced
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What belongs in the upper right-hand corner of your paper?
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Last name followed by a single space and your page number.
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What font(s) are allowed in MLA format?
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Legible font that have italics and regular font that look different from one another. (In this class times new roman)
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What size must your font be?
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12
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How wide must your margins be?
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1 inch on all sides
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What size paper must you use if you are printing your paper?
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8'5 x 11 inch
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Where does the title of your paper belong?
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Below your heading, centered, before the main portion of your heading.
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How should the title of your paper be formatted?
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Center the title. Do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks. Also write in Title Case
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When you directly quote from, summarize, or paraphrase an outside source, what must you do?
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In text citation
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What is the format for an in-text (parenthetical) citation that does not name the author in a signal phrase?
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Last name and page number example: (Vreeland 8).
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What is the format for an in-text (parenthetical) citation that does name the author in a signal phrase?
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Page number Example: (8).
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What is a signal phrase?
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A phrase, clause or sentence that introduces a quotation. Example: Susan Vreeland writes that Magdalena "loves looking out at the sea" (8). Example 2: Magdalena is a pensive girl who longs "to sit for a painting" like her sister (Vreeland 8).
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If there is no author given in a work that you are quoting in your paper, how do you cite this work in the in-text (parenthetical) citation?
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Use shortened version of title in quotation marks Example: ("Magdalena" 8).
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If there are no page numbers given in a work that you are quoting in your paper, how do you cite this work in the in-text (parenthetical) citation?
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Cite Paragraph number Example: (par.4). Lower case p
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What spacing should you use for your paper?
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Double Spacing
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In MLA format, can you have additional space in between each paragraph of your essay since this is the way that newer versions of Microsoft Word automatically format your paper?
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No you should fix it.
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How should titles of short works, such as poems, articles, and short stories, be formatted?
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Put them in quotation marks
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How should titles of long works, such as novels and plays be formatted?
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Italicize longer works
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If your teacher's directions for formatting vary slightly from the official MLA guidelines, which should you follow?
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Your teacher's direction's
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Does every page require a title page?
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Yes
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What is the citation method used in the research method?
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Parenthetical citation (Name,7)
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After you finished with your paper, what is the last name of the paper where you place your sources?
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Works cited
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How do you position "Works cited" on the page?
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Center it
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How are the sources arranged on the works cited page?
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According the authors last name
