2. What is the MLA Directory of Periodicals (you can consult it in the main office):

3. What is the MLA Directory of Scholarly Presses in Language and Literature:

4. What are the elements of copy editing:

1. What are the rules for plurals:

2. What is a diaresis (give an example):

3. How do we use dashes and parnentheses:

4. When should we use apostrophes:

5. When are single quotes used, when are square brackets used?

6. How do we mark foreign words in an English text:

7. What are the rules of capitalization in English titles:

8: Ho should titles be cited? What are some exceptions?

9. How do we mark quotations?

10. What are the rules of punctuation?

11. What are the rules about numbers?

1. How should we divide the text in sections?:

2. What are the rules on spacing:

This and the next chapter are the most important sections in this book and the ones that you will always come back to to look things up, so read them carefully.

1. What is Plagiarism? Can you give an example?:

2. What are the MLA rules on citations (where should they be placed and in what form)?:

3. How should two or more entries by the same co-authors be handled?

4. What does the basic entry for a book by a single author look like?

5. How do you cite an anthology?

6. How do you cite a book by two or more authors?

7. How do you cite an essay in an anthology?

8. How do you cite a translation?

9. How do you cite a previously published work in an anthology?

10. How do you cite a reprint that has a different title now?

11. How do you cite a Preface?

12. How do you cite an edition?

13. How do you cite a subsequent edition?

14. How do you cite a specific volume in a multi-volume work?

15. How do you cite a book in a series?

16. How do you cite a Government Publication?

17. How do you cite the published proceedings of a conference?

18. What if the book was published without any pagination?

19. How do you cite an unpublished dissertation?

20. How do you cite an article in a book/journal that is not printed on consecutive pages?

21. How do you cite an article in a journal that pages each issue separately?

22. How do you cite an article in a newspaper:

23. How do you cite a TV program?

24. How about a Film?

25. How do you cite an interview on the radio?

26. How do you cite an article in an electronic journal?

27. How do you cite a CD-ROM?:

1. What are the basic rules about citing sources in the text?:

2. What if you include an author's name in your text and then cite from his/her works?:

3. How do you cite sections from a multi-volume work in the text:

4. How do you cite acts and scenes in plays in the text?

5. Where is the best place to cite multiple sources?

6. What is a content vis a vis a bibliographic note?

Read through the introduction and study the common scholarly abbreviations used.

1. How do you abbreviate "anonymous" and "and others"?

2. What are the rules about abbreviating titles of literary works?

3. What is the proofreading symbol for "delete"?

1. What are the principles of the author-date system?