MLA Citation Exercise:
Please decode the following entries and find information about author, medium of publication, book, or journal, online or print, year, page, etc.
Place (location/site) of publication, title of article
1. Carré, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Print.
2. Aldrich, Frederick A. and Margueritte L. Marks. “Wyman Reed Green, American Biologist.”
Bios 23.1 (1952): 26-35. Print.
3. Lubell, Sam. “Of the Sea and Air and Sky.” New York Times. New York Times, 26 Nov. 2008.
Web. 1 Dec. 2008. Written Nov. 26 but used Dec. 1
4. Cohen, Elizabeth. “Five Ways to Avoid Germs While Traveling.” CNN.com. CNN, 27 Nov.
2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008. Written Nov. 27 but used Nov. 28
5. Berger, James D. and Helmut J. Schmidt. “Regulation of Macronuclear DNA Content in
Paramecium Tetraurelia.” The Journal of Cell Biology 76.1 (1978): 116-126. JSTOR. Web. 20
Nov. 2008. Written in 1978 but used Nov. 20
6. Kessl, Fabian, and Nadia Kutsche. “Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post-Welfarism. A
Comment on Kevin Stenson.” Social Work & Society 6.1 (2008): n. pag. Web. 10 Oct. 2008. Please write down the correct citation format based on the following information.
1. You need to cite a book that you read. The author is William K. Klingaman and the title is Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. The book was published in 2001 by Viking Press in New York.
-Kingman, William k. “Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation” New York: Viking Press, 2001. Book
2. You have an article with one author from a journal that you want to include in your bibliography. Here is information about the journal. Journal title: Issues in Law and Medicine volume and issue: volume 46, issue 4 page numbers: 125-136. Year: 2001
-Issues in Law and Medicine 46.4 (2001): 125-136. Print
3. You found several articles that you used for your paper that were full-text from the library’s databases. The one below was from the database Academic Search Premier: Credit Card Debt On College Campuses: Causes, Consequences, And Solutions. By: Norvilitis, Jill M.; Santa Maria, Phillip. College Student Journal, Sep2002, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p356-364.
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4. You used information for a research paper from a website that is part of the Web4Health Web site that you viewed on Sept. 15, 2003. The page you want to use is written by Gunborg Palme called: How Media Affect Body Image of Women. It was most recently updated on August 9, 2003 and the URL is http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm. 5. You are writing a paper on the ethics of downloading music from the Internet. One article you used in your research comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled “Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid?” It appeared in the September 10, 2003 issue on page 1D and was written by Carl Bialik. Paraphrase excise:
Original Source:
For many southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and raping.
From page 158 of the Sable Arm by Dudley Taylor Cornish
Which of the following is an acceptable paraphrase?
1. Civil war historian Dudley Taylor Cornish observed that many southerners were so terrified of slave revolts that the sight of armed black men filled them with fears (158).
2. For many southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and raping.
3. According to civil war historian Dudley Taylor Cornish, for many southerners it was psychologically difficult to see a black man bearing arms as anything but a potential slave revolt (158).
Number 3 is the correct answer to paraphrase the statement.
Please paraphrase the following sentence as an in-text citation.
1. For a long time, it remains unknown to linguists that a chimp could learn to communicate in sign language.
From page 26 of Animal Communication by Flora Davis
2. The population problem manifests itself not only in hunger, but also in the specter of urban breakdown that arises from larger population growth. Unemployed people pour into depressed cities, stretching both the cities and the people to the breaking point as they fail to find work. As population growth continues at a rapid pace, such places will become the very image of debasement”.
From page 115 in Population Crisis by Maria Helborne, 2004. Is there anything wrong with the format of citation in the following sentences? If so, please make corrections.
1. According to Hart (1996), some primatologists “wondered if apes have learned Language, with a capital L” (p. 109).
2. Researchers took Terrace’s conclusions seriously, and funding for language experiments soon declined. (Hart, 1996)
3. Koko acquired language more slowly than a normal speaking child (Patterson and Linden, 1981).
Read the following student passage and decide if the student needs to cite the source for the information.
1. Many of William Faulkner’s novels are set in a fictional part of Mississippi.
2. Faulkner may have got the word Yoknapatawpha from a 1915 dictionary of the Choctaw dictionary.
3. Abraham Lincoln died of political assassin.
4. Walt Disney fired and blacklisted all of his animators who went on strike in 1941.
5. As of 2002, the film Titanic had earned over $600 million in the United States alone.
6. George Lucas made a larger fortune by selling Star Wars toys than he made by selling tickets to Star Wars.
7. Consumer Price Index increased by 0.4% in August, 2009.