MLA Formatting Quiz

MLA style heading on the far left

• Name

• Teacher

• Class

• Date

MLA style title

• the title is in the center and entered

MLA style spacing

• double spaced throughout with a one inch margin throughout

MLA style page numbers

• on a ½ margin at the top of the page

• last name followed by a page number

citing authors

• Name…….paraphrase…..(page number).

• Quote (author’s last name+page number).

citing a play

• Quote (name of play act.scene.line) when multiple plays

• Quote (author of play’s last name act.scene.line) when just one play

citing a poem

• (part of poem.line)

• quote (line _)….quote (line #)

When to use quotation marks and italics

• use quotation marks for titles of articles, chapters, essays, short stories, poems, songs, and episodes of television series

• use italics for books, films, newspapers, longer works, long poems, plays, films and videos, musical works and albums, radio and TV series, paintings and sculptures, dances, software, shifts and spacecrafts, and websites,and underline them if italics are not accessible.

capitalization

• proper nouns capitalized

• common nouns lowercase