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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise MLA 3-2
Integrating sources in MLA papers
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Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student has quoted correctly, click on OK.
Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)
In 1827 two brothers from Switzerland named Giovanni and Pietro Del-Monico—the one a wine importer, the other a pastry chef—opened a shop on William Street [in New York City] with a half-dozen pine tables where customers could sample fine French pastries, coffee, chocolate, wine, and liquor. Three years later, the Delmonicos (as John and Peter now called themselves) opened a “Restaurant Français” next door that was among the first in town to let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables. This was a sharp break from the fixed fare and simultaneous seatings at common hotel tables—so crowded (one guidebook warned) that your elbows were “pinned down to your sides like the wings of a trussed fowl.” New Yorkers were a bit unsure about fancy foreign customs at first, and the earliest patrons tended to be resident European agents of export houses, who felt themselves marooned among a people with barbarous eating habits. The idea soon caught on, however; more restaurants appeared, and harried businessmen abandoned the ancient practice of going home for lunch.
From Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford UP, 1999.
[The source passage is from pages 436-37. Page 436 ends after the first dash in the first sentence.]
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Correct. The sentence is unacceptable. The student has failed to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks and to introduce the quoted words with a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: Burrows and Wallace note that the Delmonico brothers’ French restaurant was among the first eating establishments “to let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. The sentence is unacceptable. The student has failed to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks and to introduce the quoted words with a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: Burrows and Wallace note that the Delmonico brothers’ French restaurant was among the first eating establishments “to let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This sentence is acceptable. Quoted words appear in quotation marks, and the student has provided a context for the quotation and named the authors in a signal phrase. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. Quoted words appear in quotation marks, and the student has provided a context for the quotation and named the authors in a signal phrase. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This passage is acceptable. The student has enclosed exact words from the source in quotation marks and has introduced the quotation with a signal phrase naming the authors. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This passage is acceptable. The student has enclosed exact words from the source in quotation marks and has introduced the quotation with a signal phrase naming the authors. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This is a dropped quotation. The student has failed to provide a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: In 1830, the Delmonico brothers opened one of the first restaurants in New York City. “This was a sharp break,” according to Burrows and Wallace, “from the fixed fare and simultaneous seatings at common hotel tables—so crowded (one guidebook warned) that your elbows were ‘pinned down to your sides like the wings of a trussed fowl’ ” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This is a dropped quotation. The student has failed to provide a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: In 1830, the Delmonico brothers opened one of the first restaurants in New York City. “This was a sharp break,” according to Burrows and Wallace, “from the fixed fare and simultaneous seatings at common hotel tables—so crowded (one guidebook warned) that your elbows were ‘pinned down to your sides like the wings of a trussed fowl’ ” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This sentence is unacceptable. The words enclosed in quotation marks are not word-for-word accurate. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This sentence is unacceptable. The words enclosed in quotation marks are not word-for-word accurate. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This passage is acceptable. The student has enclosed words from the source in quotation marks, and the word such (added to make the student’s sentence grammatical) appears in brackets to indicate that it does not appear in the original source. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This passage is acceptable. The student has enclosed words from the source in quotation marks, and the word such (added to make the student’s sentence grammatical) appears in brackets to indicate that it does not appear in the original source. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This passage is unacceptable. The student has borrowed words from the source without enclosing them in quotation marks. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This passage is unacceptable. The student has borrowed words from the source without enclosing them in quotation marks. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed exact language from the source in quotation marks and has introduced the quotation with a signal phrase naming the authors. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed exact language from the source in quotation marks and has introduced the quotation with a signal phrase naming the authors. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed words from the source in quotation marks and indicated changes in the original with brackets and an ellipsis mark. For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed words from the source in quotation marks and indicated changes in the original with brackets and an ellipsis mark. For more help, see section MLA-3.
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Correct. This is a dropped quotation. The student has failed to provide a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: Native New Yorkers were at first suspicious of the concept of a restaurant. But as Burrows and Wallace note, “The idea soon caught on, . . . more restaurants appeared, and harried businessmen abandoned the ancient practice of going home for lunch” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
Sorry. This is a dropped quotation. The student has failed to provide a signal phrase naming the authors. The following is an acceptable revision: Native New Yorkers were at first suspicious of the concept of a restaurant. But as Burrows and Wallace note, “The idea soon caught on, . . . more restaurants appeared, and harried businessmen abandoned the ancient practice of going home for lunch” (437). For more help, see section MLA-3.
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