MLA Style

Hey Evelyn, can you fill in the blanks? MLA stands for ______ ________ ___________

Hey students! James and Nora are having a debate about MLA citations. Can you help them out by marking all the correct reasons why proper MLA citations are important?

• help curious readers retrace your research steps

• help you build credibility and be more likely to win your argument

• give credit to the people who have done the work you are talking about

• allow you to avoid a charge of plagiarism

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1B

Hey there, trivia buffs! Samuel and Abigail are having a debate. Can you help them out? What is another way of saying parenthetical notation?

• bibliography

• reference note

• in-text citation

• highlighting note

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.W.6.8

Imagine you're writing an essay about a magical adventure. Anything that does not come from your own imagination, like Avery's or Lily's ideas, must be cited. Is this true or false?

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.1B

Ava and Aiden are debating where the works cited page belongs in an essay. Ava insists it's always in the middle. Is she right?

• True

• False

Can you spot what's off with this citation? (Choose all that apply)

"I like girls, girls..." (Bieber, p. 185).

• the period is in the wrong place

• the comma should not be included

• the p. is not needed

• quotation marks are not needed

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Hey there! (a)   is the go-to font style for Benjamin's creative projects, and (b)   is the perfect font size for Maya's presentations. What do you think?

• Times New Roman

• 12 pt