MLA Web Quest Notes

Mrs. Opaleski-DiMeo – English III

MLA Web Quest Notes

Learning Objectives:

1. Review MLA in-text citation and works cited page.

2. Demonstrate understanding of the MLA format.

Directions: Watch the following video tutorials and read the information provided on the websites given. Then, answer the questions. After you have completed the assignment, please submit to Turnitin.com for credit. This is due at the end of the period.

In Text Citations

Use the following website and video tutorial to answer questions #1-5

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5igNRmKLug

Website: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

1) How do you cite a work after a quote? Provide an example. (It can be one from the tutorial or website)

2) How do you cite a web address in your text?

3) Do you cite the source if you paraphrase someone’s words? If yes, where do you place the citation? Provide an example. (It can be one from the tutorial or website)

4) How do you punctuate in -text the following: novel, short story, poetry, movie title, play, newspaper, magazine?

5) How do you cite a quote more than 4 lines?

Works Cited Page Mrs. Opaleski-DiMeo – English III

Use the following website and video tutorial to answer questions #6-10

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9S1h36jww

Website: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

6). Where does your works cited page go in your essay?

7). Do you number the citations of your works cited page?

8). In what order are the citations? What comes first?

9). How do you indent the works cited page?

10). The samples that follow all quote, appropriately or inappropriately, from the following paragraph from page 3 of Middlemarch by George Eliot. If the sample is INCORRECT, correct it. If it is correct, mark CORRECT.

And how should Dorothea not marry?--a girl so handsome and with such prospects? Nothing could hinder it but her love of extremes, and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers. A young lady of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick labourer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles--who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted upon. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. Mrs. Opaleski-DiMeo – English III

a. Eliot observes, "Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted upon." b. In the nineteenth century, as Eliot says, a woman could be "expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted upon" (3). c. Eliot notes that even a beautiful woman from a good family with a respectable income might be considered a poor prospect for marriage if gentlemen discovered that her beliefs were likely to make them uncomfortable in any way. d. Dorothea is clearly an unusual woman, and Eliot emphasizes "her love of extremes, and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers" (3).