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MLA Citation Guide: Understanding the Basics, Summaries of Technical Writing

A worksheet to help students understand the basics of mla citation, including definitions, parenthetical citations, and the order of sources on a works cited page.

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MLA Guide Worksheet 1
1. What does MLA stand for? ________________________
2. What are you documenting when using MLA in your academic
writing? ___________________
3. A bibliography is also known as what? ____________________
4. What is plagiarism?
___________________________________________________
5. Plagiarism is like doing what to your reader?
_______________________________________
6. Do you need to cite common knowledge? Why or why not?
______________________________________
7. A Works Cited page is also known as what?
______________________________________
8. Where is the Works Cited page located? _________________
9. Each entry reads like what?
_________________________________________________
10. In what order are the sources listed?
_____________________________________
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Name: MLA Guide Worksheet 1

  1. What does MLA stand for? ________________________
  2. What are you documenting when using MLA in your academicwriting? ___________________
  3. A bibliography is also known as what? ____________________
  4. What is plagiarism?___________________________________________________
  5. Plagiarism is like doing what to your reader?
  6. Do you need to cite common knowledge? Why or why not?______________________________________
  7. A______________________________________ “Works Cited” page is also known as what?
  8. Where is the “Works Cited” page located? _________________
  9. Each entry reads like what?_________________________________________________
  10. In what order are the sources listed?

Name:

  1. Define a Parenthetical citation:

12.citations? ___________________________ Parenthetical citations are also known as what type of 13.quotation? __________________________ What information do you put in parenthesis after the

  1. Give an example of what you put in the parenthesis:

15._____________________________________ What punctuation comes after the parenthesis?

Define the following terms:

  1. Bibliography
  2. Citation
  3. Direct Quote
  4. Indirect Quote
  5. Works Cited