Question 1

Copying and pasting from the internet a form of...

Accepted Answer

plagiarism

Question 2

If you put the information in your own words, do you still have to cite it?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 3

What are the correct details for MLA format?

Accepted Answer

Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced, last name and page number in upper right

Question 4

What appears in the upper left of an MLA-formatted essay?

Accepted Answer

Student Name, Teacher Name, Class, Day Month Year

Question 5

In MLA format, what is a key formatting feature of a Works Cited page?

Accepted Answer

uses a hanging indent

Question 6

MLA in-text citation for an internet source includes

Accepted Answer

the author's last name

Question 7

What is the correct MLA in-text citation for an internet article?

Accepted Answer

According to Harvard professor John Smith, "most people use meaningless statistics daily" (Jones).

Question 8

If there is no author for an article, MLA citation uses the

Accepted Answer

article title in quotation marks

Question 9

All pages in MLA (including the Works Cited page) should be...

Accepted Answer

Double-spaced

Question 10

"Works Cited" refers to a list of references that you...

Accepted Answer

you cited in your paper

Question 11

If you are citing an article that has multiple authors, whose name do you put in parentheses?

Accepted Answer

Only the last name of the author who is first in alphabetical order.

Question 12

What should an in-text citation look like?

Accepted Answer

" (Dixon 7).

Question 13

In academic writing, you always use...

Accepted Answer

Third Person

Question 14

What side font do you use?

Accepted Answer

12

Question 15

What do you center?

Accepted Answer

Title

Question 16

Each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the...

Accepted Answer

Text

Question 17

Plagiarism is...

Accepted Answer

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

Related quizzes