1. OWL MLA Exercise Answers

2. Two benefits of using MLA Style Build credibility Protect against plagiarism

3. What font and size? 12 point Times New Roman

4. Margins 1 inch on all sides

5. Italics use for book titles

6. Upper left corner of page your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date

7. Information required in parenthetical citations Source medium Source entry in the works cited page

8. Two choices for placement of the author’s name In the sentence In a parenthetical citation

9. Page number Always goes in the parenthetical citation

10. Point of in-text citations/how does it help the reader The reader can look in the works cited for the corresponding entry to find more information

11. If there’s no known author Use a shortened title of the work to refer to the work in the citation

12. Quotation of four lines or less Takes quotation marks around it

13. Quotation of four lines or less Include the author name and page number The information in the text should correspond to the entry in the works cited

14. Add a word to a quotation Put [brackets] around the word or words to indicate that they weren’t part of the original

15. If you omit words Put three periods with extra space . . .

16. Margins on works cited page 1 inch all the way around

17. Top of the works cited page The phrase Works Cited center, no italics, no bold, no special treatment

18. Works cited entries Double space, but do not skip extra lines between entries

19. Indent on works cited page Hanging indent – the first line is out 5 spaces from the second and subsequent lines

20. Popular mediums of publication Print or web

21. Book titles and other long works Should be in italics, not underlined or bold

22. Format for titles of shorter works In italics

23. Names on the works cited page Should be listed alphabetically

24. If there’s no known author Alphabetize the work by the title

25. If you don’t have all the information required Include as much information as you do have

26. Listing a date for a website The web changes often. Things may move.

27. Citing an image? Yes, sometimes you must.

28. For questions Google OWL Purdue for a wealth of information