MLA Format Lesson

Why should students use MLA Format?

• To avoid plagiarism
• Because teachers say they should
• To make a paper harder
• Students shouldn't use it

MLA style is NOT widely used by many high schools, colleges, or universities.

• True
• False

What is the font size for most MLA documents?

• 8
• 10
• 12
• 14

What is the title of the page where you give credit to authors whose work you used in a paper?

• Reference Page
• Works Cited
• Citations
• Sources

The first page of an MLA document includes:

• Student name
  Teacher Name
  Date
• Student Name
  Date
• Student Name
  Title of paper
  Date
• Student name
  Teacher name
  Course
  Date

How large should the margins be for each side of the document?

• 1/4 inch
• 1/2 inch
• 1 inch
• 2 inches

Each paragraph should be indented by 1/2 inch. This can often be accomplished using which key?

• Space bar
• Tab
• Enter
• Shift

MLA documents often include a header in which corner of the page?

• Left
• Right

The header includes:

• Last name and page number
• Page number only

A proper, in-text, citation for a direct quote would look like this, "Friday is white dress for males and black dress for females for Homecoming week" (Cooper, 2016).

• False
• True