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What does the acronym MLA stand for?
Medium Language Alert
Modern Language Association
Modern Learner's Association
Modified Language Alert
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MLA style requires documentation in the text of an essay for every quotation, paraphrase, and summary as well as other material requiring documentation.
True
False
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In MLA style, in-text citations, or parenthetical references, usually include which of the following?
Author's last name, title of book or article, page number of reference
Author's first and last name, year of publication, page number
Title of article if no author is listed, page number of reference
Title of article if no author is listed, year of publication, page number of reference.
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A(n) _________ often includes the author's name and introduces the material you are going to quote.
summary phrase
lead in, or signal phrase
expository phrase
ending phrase
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Which of the following is not one of the guidelines for preparing a Works Cited list?
List sources alphabetically by authors (or editor's) last name.
Start each entry flush with the left margin and indent subsequent lines five spaces.
Place the Works Cited list on a separate page.
Double-space the entire list.
All of the above are guidelines for creating a Works Cited list.
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For the following questions, read the original passage, and then read the questions that follow. Indicate whether the example statement, taken from the original, presents an acceptable MLA in-text citation.
Original
From Toby Fulwiler and Alan R. Hayakawa's The College Writer's Reference, pages 152-153:
The MLA guidelines for submitting college papers are fairly conservative and do not reflect the wealth of visually interesting fonts, type sizes, graphics, and other options available with most modern word processing programs. . . . The MLA system provides a simple, concise, and thorough way for writers to acknowledge their research sources.
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Example: According to the authors of The College Writer's Reference, "The MLA system provides a simple, concise, and thorough way for writers to acknowledge their research sources" (153).
Acceptable MLA format
Unacceptable MLA format
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Example: Fulwiler and Hayakawa explain that research writers should not experiment with fancy fonts since MLA guidelines are "conservative" (152).
Acceptable MLA format
Unacceptable MLA format
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Original
From page 1 of Marcia Clemmitt's article, "Saving the Oceans," as published in The CQ Researcher Online database on 4 November 2005.
The world's oceans are under extreme pressure from overfishing, pollution and coastal development, two major commissions have warned. Global fish catches have declined in recent years, despite the use of increasingly sophisticated equipment - including satellite tracking. Moreover, some scientists say 90 percent of the world's large predator fish - such as swordfish and tuna - have disappeared. Scores of proposals on oceans have been introduced in Congress this year, but none has passed. While 3,600 Americans a day move to coastal communities - bringing new development that eats up fish-breeding wetlands and increases runoff pollution from motor oil, fertilizer and lawn chemicals - no single public agency is responsible for coordinating onshore development with ocean health.
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Example: According to Clemmitt, "3600 Americans a day move to the coastal communities bringing new development that eats up fish-breeding wetlands" ("Saving the Oceans" 1).
Acceptable MLA format
Unacceptable MLA format
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Using the original passage listed above as reference, which of the following is a correct MLA in-text citation?
Pollution, overfishing and housing development are causing severe problems for the world's oceans according to two recent studies (Clemmitt, 2005).
Pollution, overfishing and housing development are causing severe problems for the world's oceans according to two recent studies (Clemmitt, "Saving the Oceans," 2005, 1).
Pollution, overfishing and housing development are causing severe problems for the world's oceans according to two recent studies (Clemmitt 1).
Pollution, overfishing and housing development are causing severe problems for the world's oceans according to two recent studies (Clemmitt, CQ Researcher, 1).
None of the above. This material is paraphrased and, therefore, does not need an in-text citation.
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Using the original passage listed above as reference, which of the following is a correct MLA in-text citation?
According to Clemmitt, "Some scientists say 90 percent of the world's large predator fish - such as swordfish and tuna - have disappeared" (1).
According to Clemmitt, "Some scientists say 90 percent of the world's large predator fish - such as swordfish and tuna - have disappeared" ("Saving the Oceans" 2005).
According to Clemmitt, "Some scientists say 90 percent of the world's large predator fish - such as swordfish and tuna - have disappeared" (Clemmitt 1).
According to Clemmitt, "Some scientists say 90 percent of the world's large predator fish - such as swordfish and tuna - have disappeared" (Clemmitt, "Saving the Oceans" CQ Researcher, 1).
None of the above. The author's name is provided in the sentence and the material is placed in quotation marks, so no citation is needed.
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What is wrong with the following citation: Almost 90 percent of large predatory fish have disappeared in the world's oceans according to scientists (Clemmitt, 1).
The sentence should be in quotation marks
Punctuation should not be placed between the author's last name and the page number in any in-text citation.
The in-text citation is missing the initial of the author's first name.
The title of the article should be placed in quotation marks after the author's last name and before the page number.
None of the above. Nothing is wrong with the citation.
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Assume you are going to paraphrase information from page 25 of the following source and you are not going to use the authors' last names in the sentence. Given this information, what items would you include in your in-text citation?
Source: Jon Brandy and Evelyn Meyers. "Watch Children Closely," published in Parents Magazine, June 2005, pp. 24-28.
(Brandy 25)
(Brandy, J. & Meyers, E. 2005, p. 25)
(Brandy and Meyers 25)
(Brandy, et al., Parents 25)
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Assume you are going to paraphrase information from the following source. What information from this source would you include in an in-text citation?
Source: "No More War!" published anonymously in the New York Times, September 2005, p. D4.
(New York Times, Sept. 2005)
(No author, NYT, D4)
("No More War!" New York Times, D4)
("No More War!" D4)
None of the above.
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When citing a book by two or three authors, you need to list
Last name of authors, book title, city of publication and date.
First author presented on the title page, last name first, and then remaining authors' names in regular order.
First author's last name and first name, then the words "et al."
Title of book underlined, the words "et al." and the publication company and date.
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You should place a listing of all references you used in your Works Cited page, even if you did not reference them within your paper.
True
False
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Given the following information, which of the choices below correctly formats a works cited entry for this information?
Book Title: Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry
Date of publication: 2001
City of publication: New York
Author: Albert Dean Browning
Publisher: Authorhouse
Medium: Print
Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry by Browning, Albert. New York: Authorhouse, 2001.
Albert Browning. Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry. Authorhouse: New York, 2001.
Browning, A. Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry. Authorhouse: New York, 2001. Print.
Browning, Albert. Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry. New York: Authorhouse, 2001. Print.
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Given the following information, which of the choices below correctly formats a works cited entry for this information?
Date of publication: April 1, 2002
Author: Oliver Gillham and Alex S. Maclean
Book Title: The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate
City of publication: New York
Publisher: Island Press
Medium: Print
Gillham, O., and Maclean, A. S. (2002 April). The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. New York: Island Press.
Gillham, Oliver, and Alex S. Maclean. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. New York: Island Press, 2002. Print.
Gillham, Oliver, and Maclean, Alex S. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. Island Press: New York, April 2002.
Oliver Gillham and Alex S. Maclean. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. New York: Island Press, 2002. Print.
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Given the following information, which of the choices below correctly formats a works cited entry for this information?
Date of publication: June 1994
Journal: Electronic Green Journal
Author: Irwin Weintraub
Article Title: Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography
Website: EBSCO
Date accessed: June 14, 2005
Medium: Web
"Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography." by Irwin Weintraub. June 1994.
Weintraub, I. "Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography." Electronic Green Journal. Web. June 14, 2005.
Weintraub, Irwin. "Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography." Electronic Green Journal 1 June 1994. Web. 14 June 2005.
Weintraub, Irwin. June 1994. "Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography." Electronic Green Journal. 14 June 2005 .
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What should you assume if you saw a works cited entry for an article listed on the CQ Researcher database that looked like this:
Cooper, M. H. (1996, August 23). Cleaning up hazardous wastes. The CQ researcher, 6. Retrieved January 18, 2006, from https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1996082300. Document ID: cqresrre1996082300.
a) That I could copy this entry as is to use in my Works Cited portion of my paper.
b) If it's formatted online in this way, then it must be the correct way to cite this information.
c) That this is not MLA formatting and the information would need to be reformatted to use in my paper.
d) a and b only
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Go to the CQ Researcher database and locate the article titled "Alternative Fuels" by Mary H. Cooper. Which of the following possibilities correctly formats a works cited entry for this article? Cooper, Mary H. "Alternative Fuels." The CQ Researcher 15.8 (2005). 18 January 2006 .
Cooper, Mary H. "Alternative Fuels." 18 January. Print. .
Cooper, M. H. Alternative Fuels. The CQ Researcher 15.8 (2005) .
None of the above