Creating+Your+MLA+Guide

Create Your Own MLA Style Guide ==**Directions: Answer the following questions and prompts.** DO NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM THE SUGGESTED WEBSITES. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT IF YOU DO NOT PUT THE INFORMATION INTO YOUR OWN WORDS. == ==**Note: All of the following questions/notes should be** recorded in Google Docs and SHARED **with your teacher (johnson.lasure9@gmail.com). Copy and paste everything on this page into the Google Doc, then answer the questions/take the notes.** ==

**Part 1: MLA Overview**
•What is the MLA? ([]) •What is MLA style? ([]) •In what classes would you use MLA style? ([])

**Part 2: MLA Basics**
•What font does MLA recommend? ([]) •Why do you need only one space after end punctuation? •What does MLA recommend for indenting? How will you do this in Google Docs?([]) •What should go in the "header" on your documents? ([]) How will you adjust this for Google Docs? **Including page numbers in GDocs is weird... To do the header, click Insert > Header, and put your last name on the right, like always. Now, put 2-3 spaces after your name. Next, click File > Print settings, then Include page numbers > Top right. (The page numbers won't appear while you're looking at/working on your essay.) To make sure you did it right, click File > Print preview.** •Underline or Italicize? ([]) •Recreate the heading of the first page of an MLA style essay ([])

**Part 3: In-Text Citations/Parenthetical Citations**
•What is an in-text parenthetical citation? ([]) •Summarize the OWL's general guidelines for in-text citations: ([]) •To what does the citation refer? ([]) •When is a citation __**not**__ needed? ([]) •When is a citation needed? ([])
 * ====**•Create a citation for the following information:**====
 * •(Author: Lasure Johnson; Title: Avoiding Senioritis; Publisher: Bearcat Press; City: Cleveland; Year: 2013; Page: 23)**
 * •Make up your own example of a citation. (just the citation)**

**Part 4: Works Cited Page**
•Where does the Works Cited page go in your paper? ([]) •What happens if your Works Cited entry goes beyond one line? ([]) •What do you do to titles of longer works (books, magazines, DVDs, #|TV shows, titles of websites) ([]) •How should author names be listed? ([])

**Choose one: John Smith. or Smith, John.**
•What information goes into a Works Cited entry for a book? **(Make a list)** ([]) •What information goes into a Works Cited entry for an article within a book? **(Make a list)** ([]) •What information goes into a Works Cited entry for a magazine? **(Make a list)** ([]) •What information goes into a Works Cited entry for a newspaper? **(Make a list)** ([]) •What information has **CHANGED**in citing a website with the 2009 edition of the MLA style guide? ([]) •What information goes into a Works Cited entry for a website? **(Make a list)** ([|http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/0**8/**])