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MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

Answer each question using information in the source provided.

For help with this exercise, see MLA works cited.

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SOURCE: A Web Site

Question

undefined. Whom would you list as the author of this Web site in a works cited entry?

◯	Shakespeare
◯	Harry Rusche

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SOURCE: A Web site

Question

undefined. 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?

◯	“Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” Shakespeare’s World at Emory University. 2003. Web. 3 Mar. 2013. <http://shakespeare.emory.edu/introduction.cfm>.
◯	Rusche, Harry. “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” Shakespeare’s World at Emory University. English Dept., Emory Coll., 2003. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.

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SOURCE: An article accessed through a database

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undefined. How would you cite the publication information for the journal article in this database record? (The article is more than one page long.)

◯	Comparative Drama 46.4 (Winter 2012): 451.
◯	Comparative Drama 46.4 (2012): 451+.

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SOURCE: An article accessed through a database

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undefined. What information would you include after the page number in the works cited entry? (Assume that you accessed the article on March 29, 2013.)

◯	Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 29 Mar. 2013.
◯	Web. 29 Mar. 2013.

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SOURCE: A print book

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undefined. How would you begin the works cited entry for this book?

◯	Pennebaker, James W. THE SECRET LIFE OF PRONOUNS: WHAT OUR WORDS SAY ABOUT US.
◯	Pennebaker, James W. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us.

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SOURCE: A print book

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undefined. How would you cite the place of publication for this book in an MLA works cited entry?

◯	New York and Berlin:
◯	New York:

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SOURCE: A print book

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undefined. How would you end the MLA works cited entry for this book?

◯	Bloomsbury, 2011. Print.
◯	Bloomsbury P, 2011.

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SOURCE: An online podcast

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undefined. How would you begin a works cited entry for the first podcast listed on this page?

◯	Ridge, Lola. “Manhattan.” Narr. Robert Pinsky. The Slate Poetry Podcast.
◯	Pinsky, Robert, narr. “Manhattan.” The Slate Poetry Podcast.

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SOURCE: A work in an anthology

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undefined. 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?

◯	Schor, Juliet B., and Douglas B. Holt
◯	Baudrillard, Jean

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SOURCE: A work in an anthology

Question

undefined. What information shown on these two pages do you not need in an MLA works cited entry for the essay?

◯	Edited by Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt
◯	1969

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