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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

EXERCISE MLA 4–4MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

Answer each question using information in the source provided.

1 of 10

SOURCE: A Web Site

Source: Screenshot of Shakespeare’s World. Courtesy of Harry Rusche and Emory University.

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 1 of 10: Whom would you list as the author of this Web site in a works cited entry?

2 of 10

SOURCE: A Web site

Source: Screenshot of Shakespeare’s World. Courtesy of Harry Rusche and Emory University.

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 2 of 10: 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?

3 of 10

SOURCE: An article accessed through a database

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 3 of 10: How would you cite the publication information for the journal article in this database record? (The article is more than one page long.)

4 of 10

SOURCE: An article accessed through a database

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 4 of 10: What information would you include after the page number in the works cited entry? (Assume that you accessed the article on March 29, 2013.)

5 of 10

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.

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 5 of 10: How would you begin the works cited entry for this book?

6 of 10

SOURCE: A print book

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 6 of 10: How would you cite the place of publication for this book in an MLA works cited entry?

7 of 10

SOURCE: A print book

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 7 of 10: How would you end the MLA works cited entry for this book?

8 of 10

SOURCE: An online podcast

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 8 of 10: What is the correct works cited entry for this podcast, which is an interview with writer Vivian Gornick conducted by Gemma de Choisy? (The podcast's Web site gives no sponsor.)

9 of 10

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.

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 9 of 10: 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?

10 of 10

SOURCE: A work in an anthology

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EXERCISE MLA 4–4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources - 10 of 10: What information shown on these two pages do you not need in an MLA works cited entry for the essay?