The PK6 exam will primarily cover the following. There will be a selection of questions from which to select (for example, there may be 12 questions from which 10 should be chosen). Answers may be in either MLA-modern 'book specification' or English Section 'house style' format (bearing in mind that one cannot easily produce boldface or italics with a pencil). In preparing for the exam, pay particular attention to citations for:

1. A single book by a single author
2. A single book by two or more authors
3. Two or more books by the same author in the same Works Cited
4. An edited (single or multiple editors) or translated book
5. An article from an anthology
6. Interviews (personal, telephone, e-mailed, televised, etc.)
7. E-mail messages
8. Web pages, including those in 'frames' and those with no 'author' identified
9. An image (whether scanned, taken from the web, self-created, etc.)
   Also the need for an image caption as well as source credit
10. The ideas of "Smith" as reported in a source by "Jones"
11. In-text citations for sources listed in your Works Cited, including when you have used more than one source by the same author(s).
12. Radio and television productions
13. Films, videos and DVDs
14. Newspaper and periodical articles
15. Proper punctuation and placement for regular in-text (parenthetical) citations, and for 'indented long quotations'
16. The alphabetical ordering of the Works Cited, including procedure for listing sources whose titles begin with "A", "An" or "The" (assuming a Works Cited entry with the title first if no author credit is available)
17. How and why an MLA citation would differ from an APA or SFS-5342 citation (you will not need to produce any APA or SFS-5342 citations).
18. What a 'house style' is, and how the English Section 'house style' differs from MLA 'book style'.

You should also know the principles of Academic Fair Use and Common Knowledge; how and in what cases to use Author Notes; the variables of citing multimedia sources such as films or TV programs (e.g. the different options available in these formats for whose 'intellectual contribution' most concerns your paper).

Grading on the exam (and for the course) is Pass-Fail, with a score of 70% required to pass. Students passing will receive a mark of "HYV."

See this past exam (PDF) for an idea of how questions will be presented.