Freshman Comp II

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The margins for an MLA paper are..?

1 inch all around

In MLA style, long quotations--longer than 4 lines should be?

Indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks

What does MLA stand for?

Modern Language Association

How should a source with more than three authors be cited in the Works Cited page?

Only the first author's name should be listed followed by: et al

Write an example of what should be written in the upper left-hand corner of an MLA-style research paper

Regan Hammer ENC 1102 Dr. Harrell 8 April 2016

To cite an anonymous source in a text, what information should be included in parenthesis?

The shortened form of the title and the page number

An MLA Works Cited page list appears at the ned of the paper on a separate numbered page and contains all "works cited" in a paper

True

If the authors last name is mentioned in the text, then it doesn't need to be included in parentheses

True

URL's of electronic sources in a Works Cited page are enclosed in angle brackets

True

When an entry in a works cited page in longer than one line, all subsequent lines must be indented half an inch

True

Multiple parenthetical references...

are not separated by a semicolon

If there are two or more books by the same author present in a Works Cited page, how should they be recorded?

Alphabetized by title. Name of the author only appears in the first entry nad any subsequent entries start with three dashes followed by a period, the title, and publishing information

In MLA style, what would you include in parenthesis for a directly quoted in-text citation?

Author and page number (Doe, 25)

A works cited page os not required if all in text citations have the author(s) and the page number(s) of the source

False

An MLA format Works Cited page is alphabetized based upon the title of the sourse

False

I should end my sentence with a period before my in-text citation?

False

In MLA style, underlining is preferred to italics

False

MLA format requires a cover page

False


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