MLA Formatting and Style Guide Questions
1. On the following lines create the format that you would use on the first page of an essay (not the cover page).
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2. How do you properly write an essay when you need to hand write instead of type?
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3. Write a sentence which contains a quote. Use proper in-text citation.
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4. Number every page of this question sheet as you would in a properly formatted essay.
5. Short story titles and book titles are shown differently in essays. One is underlined and on is put in quotation marks. Either underline or add quotation marks to the bolded phrases to show which formatting belongs to which type of writing.
6. If you were assigned an essay on ways to deal with hunger in your city what might be a good title?
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7. How wide should the page margins in an essay be? ______
8. What is in-text citation?
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9. What is the purpose of in-text citation?
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10. Which in-text citation is incorrect? Circle the correct answer.
a) This is clear when Brown says “Whaz up” (217).
b) The author clearly want to know “Whaz up” (Brown 217).
c) As Brown says on page 217, “Whaz up.”
d) They are all correct.
11. Create a proper cover page for this question sheet as if it were an essay. Staple it to the front of the package when you hand it in.
12. Create an appropriate works cited page entry for John Brown’s poem “Whaz up.” We know that it was published in the book Crazy Lizards and was published by Citadel Press in Halifax. It was published in 2007.
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13. Using the quote “Whaz up” (217) write a full sentence that blends into the quote effectively.
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14. Choose two lines from the following poem. Use them as a quote in a sentence of your own creation.
Roses are red
Grass is green
You’re the coolest person
I’ve ever seen
By Sandy Keddy
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15. Take the following quotation. Give one example of a proper addition to a quote. Give one example of a proper deletion.
“When I asked Bob Bobbity about his trip to Mars he spoke about the rivers of hot sauce and the beauty of the Martian sunsets” (Tweedle 123).
Addition: ______
Deletion: ______
16. Using song lyrics, give a proper example of a 5 line quotations from a song.
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17. Look at the following entries for a works cited page. Which order should they go in? Place numbers at the beginning of the entries to reorder them.
Patterson, Amanda. 101 Things to Throw at students. Halifax: Citadel Press, 1987.
Keddy, Sandy. Useless Facts for Dummies. Dartmouth: Darkside Inc, 1999.
Abrahms, Adam. “What I Really did on My Day Off.” Teacher Confession. Honolulu: Holiday Publishing, 2007.
18. Staple your own sample works cited page to this question sheet. Remember that you need to have a book with one author, a book with several authors, a textbook, a song, a website, an email, a poem, a movie, a magazine article, a newspaper article, and a photo.