EXERCISE 56–4MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources
Answer each question using information in the source provided.
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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, and the URL for the page is http://shakespeare.emory.edu/introduction.cfm. Assume that your date of access is 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.
How would you begin a works cited entry for this article?
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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: “#83, Vivian Gornick.” Interview by Gemma de Choisy for The Lit Show. © 2013 by The Lit Show. www.litshow.com.
What is the correct works cited entry for this podcast, which is an interview with writer Vivian Gornick conducted by Gemma de Choisy? The URL for the podcast is http://www.litshow.com/
archive/season-07/vivian-gornick, and your date of access was January 30, 2014.
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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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