MLA Review Answer Key PDF

1. **Where should I put the page number?** - Top right corner 2. **Where should I put the heading?** - Top left corner 3. **Starting at the top, which is the correct order for information in the heading?** - Student name, teacher name, period, date 4. **Which version...

1. **Where should I put the page number?** - Top right corner 2. **Where should I put the heading?** - Top left corner 3. **Starting at the top, which is the correct order for information in the heading?** - Student name, teacher name, period, date 4. **Which version of date should go in the heading?** - 13 November 2015 5. **The title should be both centered and bolded True or False?.** - False 6. **Parenthetical citations should be included where?** - Before the period 7. **If I include the author's last name in the sentence, I do NOT need to include it in the in-text citation. True or False?** - False 8. **If no author is given, one should use an abbreviated form of the title for an in-text citation. True or False?** - True 9. **On a works cited pages, sources should be listed how?** - Alphabetically 10. **Works Cited pages should have what elements?** - Include all sources used in the essay - Be listed alphabetically - Have hanging indents 11. **Book titles should be** - Italicized 12. **MLA style calls for what sized font?** - 12-pt. font 13. **The most commonly accepted font for MLA is** - Times New Roman 14. **I ONLY need to cite a source if I use a direct quote. True or False?** - False 15. **It is NOT plagiarism if it is an accident. True or False?** - False 16. **What is a Works Cited?** - An alphabetized list of the resources you used for a project 17. **If you use someone else's words or ideas without crediting them, what are you guilty of?** - Plagiarism 18. **Where does a Works Cited appear in a written project?** - On a separate page at the end of your project 19. **What are the preferred margins for a Works Cited?** - Top, bottom = 1 inch; Left, right = 1 inch 20. **How is a Works Cited spaced?** - Double-spaced (2.0) 21. **Is a Works Cited ever numbered?** - No 22. **What words are ignored when you are arranging a Works Cited?** - In, At, On, Of, To, By, A, An, The 23. **How are authors names listed in a Works Cited?** - Last name, First name 24. **What can you put if your citation has more than three authors?** - et al. 25. **In a citation title, what words should be capitalized?** - All important words 26. **Does a period go before or after a closing quotation mark of a title?** - Before 27. **When would you use a block quotation?** - When the quoted evidence is more than 4 lines long. 28. **Why do we NOT need quotation marks when using block quotations?** - By offsetting the quote, you tell the reader that the words belong to someone else. 29. **The use of brackets \[ \] allow you to primarily do what to a quotation?** - Change, Modify, add to, or Clarify a quotation. 30. **The use of ellipses... allow you to primarily do what to a quotation?** - Shorten or Omit Words 31. **What is a thesis statement?** - A sentence that expresses the main point of the paper. 32. **What is paraphrasing?** - Putting a passage into your own words. 33. **What is a hanging Indent?** - Leaving the first line and indenting all lines after