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Last Minute Checks 1.Correct MLA Format (Header, Citations) 2.No slang or informal language 3.NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS 4.No Contractions 5.Typed and Double Spaced 6.Titles of novels/plays are in italics 7.Titles of chapters are in “quotation marks” 8.Written in present tense

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Page 1: Last Minute Checks 1.Correct MLA Format (Header, Citations) 2.No slang or informal language 3.NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS 4.No Contractions 5.Typed and Double

Last Minute Checks

1. Correct MLA Format (Header, Citations)2. No slang or informal language3. NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS4. No Contractions5. Typed and Double Spaced6. Titles of novels/plays are in italics7. Titles of chapters are in “quotation marks”8. Written in present tense

Page 2: Last Minute Checks 1.Correct MLA Format (Header, Citations) 2.No slang or informal language 3.NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS 4.No Contractions 5.Typed and Double

Citations

Sophocles. Antigone. Ed. Stanley Appelbaum.

New York: Dover Publications Inc., 2013.

--. “Antigone.” Holt McDougal Literature Grade 10. 1st

ed. Ed. Janet Allen, et al. Orlando:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company,

2012. 1068-1106.

Page 3: Last Minute Checks 1.Correct MLA Format (Header, Citations) 2.No slang or informal language 3.NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS 4.No Contractions 5.Typed and Double

Which Citation(s) do I need?1. Quotes are only from the small Antigone book:

Use the top citation.

2. Quotes are only from the modern version of Antigone: Use the bottom citation. Put Sophocles in place of

the dashes.

3. Some quotes are from the small book AND some are from the modern version: Use both citations, with the second using dashes for

the name In-text citations should use the title and have a page

number: (Antigone 44) or (“Antigone” 1100)