Thursday, September 3, 2015

MLA and Parenthetical Doc Video Clips and Questions


MLA Format:
1.       What is the first step?
2.       What is the appropriate font?
3.       Why are we going to the paragraph icon?
4.       What “little box” are you to click?
5.       What all do we include in the header?
6.       What is the order of information that goes in the top left corner of your page?
7.       What must you do with the title?
8.       What do you include for Reader Responses and for Essays?
9.       Why do you press the TAB key?
10.   What is the first sentence in the paragraphs of essays?
11.   Where should the title be for the Work Cited Page?
12.   How do you create a hanging indention?


Questions to accompany the video
1.       What do you put around a direct quotation?
2.       Why do you do the aforementioned?
3.       What goes in parenthesis at the end of the quote?
4.       Why do you do the aforementioned?
5.       Where does the punctuation go?
6.       What is an indirect quotation?
7.       What are examples of indirect quotation?
8.       What don’t you need with an indirect quotation? Why?
9.       When writing an indirect quotation, where do you put the punctuation?
10.   How do you site a book? What information do you include in the citation?
11.   What should be included in your research notes?
12.   Can you combine direct and indirect quotations?
13.   How does a reader fine your research?

 Create Citations
1.       Book

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.

2.       Text Book: Choose a story

Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

3.       Magazine: Choose an article.
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication.


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