Chapter 305. Exercise MLA 2-1

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student’s sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

Smartphone games are built on a very different model [from traditional video games]. The iPhone’s screen is roughly the size of a playing card; it responds not to the fast-twitch button combos of a controller but to more intuitive and intimate motions: poking, pinching, tapping, tickling. This has encouraged a very different kind of game: Tetris-like little puzzles, broken into discrete bits, designed to be played anywhere, in any context, without a manual, by any level of player. (Charles Pratt, a researcher in New York University’s Game Center, refers to such games as “knitting games.”) You could argue that these are pure games: perfectly designed minisystems engineered to take us directly to the core of gaming pleasure without the distraction of narrative.

From Anderson, Sam. "Just One More Game..."The New York Times Magazine, 4 Apr. 2012, nyti.ms/1AZ2pys.

Excerpt from “Just One More Game . . .” New York Times Magazine. New York Times, April 4, 2012. Reprinted by permission.

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