EXERCISE 56–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources
Answer each question using information in the source provided. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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SOURCE: A Web Site
Source: Screenshot of Shakespeare’s World. Courtesy of Harry Rusche and Emory University.
Whom would you list as the author of this Web site in a works cited entry?
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SOURCE: A Web site
Source: Screenshot of Shakespeare’s World. Courtesy of Harry Rusche and Emory University.
In your paper, you quote from the internal page “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” The update date on the internal page is 2003; assume that your date of access was March 3, 2013. How would you cite that internal page of the site?
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SOURCE: An article accessed through a database
Source: From na. Gale Expanded Academic ASAP Infotrac. Copyright © 2013, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions.
How would you cite the publication information for the journal article in this database record? (The article is more than one page long.)
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SOURCE: An article accessed through a database
Source: From na. Gale Expanded Academic ASAP Infotrac. Copyright © 2013, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions.
What information would you include after the page number in the works cited entry? (Assume that you accessed the article on March 29, 2013.)
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SOURCE: A print book
Source: Title page and copyright page from The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us by James W. Pennebaker, published by Bloomsbury Press. Copyright © 2011 by James W. Pennebaker. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
How would you begin the works cited entry for this book?
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SOURCE: A print book
Source: Title page and copyright page from The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us by James W. Pennebaker, published by Bloomsbury Press. Copyright © 2011 by James W. Pennebaker. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
How would you cite the place of publication for this book in an MLA works cited entry?
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SOURCE: A print book
Source: Title page and copyright page from The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us by James W. Pennebaker, published by Bloomsbury Press. Copyright © 2011 by James W. Pennebaker. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
How would you end the MLA works cited entry for this book?
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SOURCE: An online podcast
Source: From Slate, 3/22/11. Copyright © The Slate Group. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited. www.slate.com.
How would you begin a works cited entry for the first podcast listed on this page?
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SOURCE: A work in an anthology
Source: Title page from The Consumer Society Reader. Ed. Juliet B. Shor and Douglas B. Holt. The New Press, 2000. Reprinted by permission. First page of “The Ideological Genesis of Needs” as it appears in The Consumer Society Reader. From For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard. Trans. Charles Levin. Copyright © 1981 Telos Press Publishing. Reprinted by permission.
You have used the essay on the right from the anthology whose title page is on the left. What information would come first in your MLA works cited entry?
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SOURCE: A work in an anthology
Source: Title page from The Consumer Society Reader. Ed. Juliet B. Shor and Douglas B. Holt. The New Press, 2000. Reprinted by permission. First page of “The Ideological Genesis of Needs” as it appears in The Consumer Society Reader. From For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard. Trans. Charles Levin. Copyright © 1981 Telos Press Publishing. Reprinted by permission.
What information shown on these two pages do you not need in an MLA works cited entry for the essay?
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