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    MLA Quiz

    Students will practice the mechanics of MLA citations.

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    MLA uses "References" as the title for its source page.

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    Plagiarism is defined as not giving proper credit to the source.

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    It is important to lead into a quote, to set it up.

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    Except in block quotes, the period comes after the parenthetical citation.

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    Block quotes are indented ten spaces from the left hand margin.

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    The Latin phrase “et. al” is used when there are two or more authors.

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    When using a quotation that ends with a question mark, you should place the question mark after the citation.

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    You should capitalize all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and coordinating conjunctions in the title of a piece of writing.

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    When creating your work cited page, you should arrange your list alphabetically by the author's first name.

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    Signal phrases make it easy for your readers to know where your information came from and why it’s trustworthy by including key facts about the source.