Owl Mla Exercise Answers

OWL MLA Exercise Answers

Two benefits of using MLA StyleBuild credibilityProtect against plagiarism

What font and size?12 point Times New Roman

Margins1 inch on all sides

Italicsuse for book titles

Upper left corner of pageyour name, your instructor's

name, the course, and the date

Information required in parenthetical citationsSource mediumSource entry in the works

cited page

Two choices for placement of the author’s nameIn the sentenceIn a parenthetical citation

Page numberAlways goes in the

parenthetical citation

Point of in-text citations/how does it help the readerThe reader can look in the

works cited for the corresponding entry to find more information

If there’s no known authorUse a shortened title of the

work to refer to the work in the citation

Quotation of four lines or lessTakes quotation marks

around it

Quotation of four lines or lessInclude the author name and

page numberThe information in the text

should correspond to the entry in the works cited

Add a word to a quotationPut [brackets] around the

word or words to indicate that they weren’t part of the original

If you omit wordsPut three periods with extra

space . . .

Margins on works cited page1 inch all the way around

Top of the works cited pageThe phrase Works Cited

center, no italics, no bold, no special treatment

Works cited entriesDouble space, but do not skip

extra lines between entries

Indent on works cited pageHanging indent – the first line

is out 5 spaces from the second and subsequent lines

Popular mediums of publicationPrint or web

Book titles and other long worksShould be in italics, not

underlined or bold

Format for titles of shorter worksIn italics

Names on the works cited pageShould be listed

alphabetically

If there’s no known authorAlphabetize the work by the

title

If you don’t have all the information requiredInclude as much information

as you do have

Listing a date for a websiteThe web changes often.

Things may move.

Citing an image?Yes, sometimes you must.

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