English

When should et al. be used in MLA style?

when the source has 3 or more authors

Counterclaim

Acknowledging the other side of the argument; must include opposite position and one piece of evidence to support it

thesis statement

Informs the reader of your position and reasons for taking that position

MLA format

Name, Teacher's Name, Class, Date

Consider the following direct quotation from page one of Sullivan's Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama and then identify which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style:

Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" evinces an early modern preoccupation with the relationship between memory and changing standards in behavior (Sullivan 1).

Introduction

Tells the reader what your essay is about

Conclusion

Wraps up your essay with a restatement of your position and claims

In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be

double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks

evidence

Reasons why you take your position; paragraphs for claim include statement of the claim, evidence, commentary and a concluding sentence

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).

What does a MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the source is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text?

Author and page number without intervening punctuation (Doe 25)

Rebuttal

Probes the counterclaim wrong; is written with the same steps as a claim

Bias

Subjective statements, wording, examples used by the author that make their argument unreliable

Each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the text.

True

If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.

True

Multiple parenthetical references are

separated by a semicolon

To cite an anonymous source in-text, what information should be included in parentheses?

the shortened form of the title (appropriately formatted) and the page number: (Wonderful World 25)

Indirect sources are cited by

using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number: (qtd. in Doe 25)