MLA Style Powerpoint
- Year levels
- Years 6–9
- File type
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Use
- Digital activity
- Subject
- Writing, English
- Topic
- Research, MLA
- Resource types
- Presentations
- Use
- Digital activity
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About this resource
This power point is useful before assigning any research papers or projects to your students. It goes through in-text citations, how to construct a works cited page, digital sources, print sources, and media source. Useful as an introduction to MLA formatting.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students format an in-text parenthetical citation using author last name and page number for a print source.
Students construct a properly ordered Works Cited entry for a book, periodical, or electronic source.
Students distinguish between summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation when incorporating source material.
Teaching tips
Project the deck as a guided lecture before students begin drafting citations for a research paper, since it is built as sequential instruction rather than a student worksheet.
Pause on the worked book, journal, and website examples to have students identify each citation element (author, title, publication details, date, format descriptor) before moving to the next slide.
Direct students to the Purdue OWL and EasyBib links on the final slides for citation practice beyond the examples shown.
Skills covered
MLA in-text citation — students format parenthetical citations using author last name and page number for print sources.
Works Cited formatting — students learn the element order and punctuation for book, periodical, and electronic Works Cited entries.
Source integration — students distinguish direct quotation, paraphrase, and summary as methods of using another author's material.
Electronic and media citation — students learn to cite websites, online periodicals, television, film, and sound recordings under MLA conventions.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
How does the presentation say students should cite two different sources in the same parenthetical reference?
Cite each source as normal and separate them with a semicolon, for example (Taylor 54; Thomas 327).
How does the deck say to format a second Works Cited entry by the same author?
Replace the author's name with three hyphens and a period for the second and later entries by that author.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
MLA style
In-text citation
Works Cited
Plagiarism avoidance
Paraphrase vs. quotation
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