MLA Formatting

a

100

Is this website is likely to have reliable information: www.nih.gov

yes!

200

As Lane explains, these programs record every key entered into the computer in hidden directories (Lane, 128-29).

Lane 128-129 (no comma)

300

He stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

author?

400

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.

italics

500

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

italics?

What's the Format?

100

Mary Lewis explains this well. According to Mary "Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), was born in Lisbon." (12)

first name intro?

200

According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality," though others disagree. (Foulkes 184).

punctuation

300

Mary Lewis explains this well. According to her: "Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), was born in Lisbon."

block quote

400

Mary Lewis explains this well, "Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), was born in Lisbon."

use colon; also a run-on

500

Mary Lewis explains this well. According to Mary "Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), "was born in Lisbon."

punctuation

What is "off" here?

100

[an opening paragraph of a student paper]? Causal determinism is, roughly speaking, the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature. The idea is ancient, but first became subject to clarification and mathematical analysis in the eighteenth century.

plagiarism

200

Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), was born in Lisbon to Martim Vicente de Bulhões and Teresa Pais Taveira (brother of Pedro Martins de Bulhões, ancestor of the Bulhão or Bulhões family), in a very rich family of the nobility who wanted him to become educated; however, these were not his wishes.

Plagiarism

300

The Truth About Roman Catholicism. By M. H. Reynolds The Truth About the Roman Catholic Church is that it always has been and continues to be a false church. Those Biblical doctrines it professes to believe and teach are vitiated by Roman Catholic dogma based upon tradition which contradicts God's holy, infallible Word, the Bible. Error is never more deceptive than when it is presented with a veneer of truth. Throughout its entire history, Roman Catholic leaders fit the description of the false teachers who God warned in advance would come on the scene in the last days, deceiving many by their "feigned' (pretended or hypocritical) words-their "great swelling words of vanity, " as described in 1 Peter 2:1.-3, 18, 19.

biased source

400

Antony the Great (c. 251–356), also known as Saint Anthony, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a big leader among the early church. He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 17 January in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Western churches. The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread the concept of christianity, particularly in Western Europe through Latin translations. He is often erroneously considered the first monk, but as his biography and other sources make clear, there were many monks before him. Anthony was actually the first known monk going into the wilderness, a geographical shift that seems to have contributed to his renown.

citation? Plagiarism

500

To cite an interview that you conducted, begin with the name of the person interviewed. Then what do you put?

To cite an interview that you conducted, begin with the name of the person interviewed. Then write ?

What the?!!?

100

According to Mary Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, would take up the name António (Anthony), "was born in Lisbon to Martim Vicente de Bulhões and Teresa Pais Taveira (brother of Pedro Martins de Bulhões, ancestor of the Bulhão or Bulhões family), in" a very rich family of the nobility who wanted him" to become educated; however, these were not his wishes.

When does quote begin?

200

Mary Lewis explains this well. According to her, "Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who "later, upon admission into the Franciscan Order, "would take up the name António (Anthony), was born in Lisbon."

where does quote begin?

300

Which is a better way to integrate this quote? (A) In 2000, the legislature of Suffolk County passed a law restricting drivers' use of handheld phones. "The bill prohibits the use of a cell phone while driving unless it is equipped with an earpiece or can act like a speakerphone, leaving the driver's hands free" (Kelley 1).
 
(B) In 2000, the legislature of Suffolk County passed a law restricting drivers' use of handheld phones. According to journalist Tina Kelley, "The bill prohibits the use of a cell phone while driving unless it is equipped with an earpiece or can act like a speakerphone, leaving the driver's hands free" (1).

(B)

400

What is the better way to integrate this quote? (A) In 2000, the legislature of Suffolk County passed a law restricting drivers' use of handheld phones. The bill, according to journalist Tina Kelley, bans using cell phones without a hands-free device like an earpiece or speakerphone (1).
 
(B) In 2000, the Suffolk County legislature passed a law restricting drivers' use of handheld phones. The bill bans using cell phones without a hands-free device like an earpiece or speakerphone (Kelley 1).

(B)

500

Akufo, Dautey. interview.

Akufo, Dautey. Personal interview. 11 Apr. 2009.

e

100

How do you introduce a quote into a paragraph or sentence? The MLA gives instructions on how to do this. "To indicate short quotations (fewer than four typed lines of prose or three lines of verse) in your text, enclose the quotation within double quotation marks." Don't forget or else you might be accused of plagiarism. "Provide the author and specific page citation (in the case of verse, provide line numbers) in the text, and include a complete reference on the Works Cited page."

no citations

200

What's the basic breakdown of information you need to give when citing a website?

Author. "Title of Webpage." Title of Website. Date published. Date Accessed. Evans, Julie. "High-tech cheating? Students see it differently ." ESchool News. 8 July 2009. 8 July 2009 .

300

Which One is right? Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›. Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.2.2.html

no need for long url

400

This is the quote you wrote in your notes: "Some individuals make a point of learning every rumor or tale" (Brunvand 78). What is wrong with how it is used in this paragraph? Jan Harold Brunvand, in an essay on urban legends, states: "some individuals who retell urban legends make a point of learning every rumor or tale" (78).

added words, need brackets

500

Wait...we forgot something: what do you put in the text of your document when you're citing a website?

Whatever comes first on the works cited page:
Harris, Robert. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources."  
VirtualSalt. 15 June 2007. Web. 20 Apr. 2009. .