Process Steps
Citation Guidelines
Practice Questions
Miscellaneous
Practice Questions II
100

Introduce source

What is the first step in the quotation integration process?

100

Page number

What does every MLA in-text citation for a print source need?

100

Give in-text citation for a quotation on the 21st page of a print article by Saidiya Hartman

Either (Hartman 21) or (21)

100

Purdue OWL

What is the one reason we can like Purdue more than PSU?

100

You are quoting the phrase "job well done" from pg. 53 of a text by Roberto Pulido. Construct a sentence with a correctly integrated quotation and in-text citation.

It was a "job well done" (Pulido 53).

200

argue, state, demonstrate, interrogate, discuss

What are analysis verbs for quotation integration?

200

Outside the parentheses

If the closing punctuation is a period, where does it go in relation to the parentheses?

200

Introduce Bill Nye the Science Guy as source

Engineer / science educator / media personality

200

Ethos

What is the appeal towards the audience's sense of authority, credibility, and relatability? 

200

What would the in-text citation for a digital CNN news article by Ryan Bergeron be?

(Bergeron)

300

colon, blended, set off

What are the three ways to embed quotations?

300

If you have not introduced author in the body of the text, then you have to include WHAT in your citation...?

Author's name inside the parentheses

300

Put " and ? in correct place:

Jones asks: What would be the right approach (33)

Jones asks: "What would be the right approach?" (33)

300

Where can I go to find scholarly sources for my definition project?

GoogleScholar, LionSearch, Ask A Librarian 

300

Put ! and " in the right place:

Krishna exclaims that 30% of people agreed (97)

Krishna exclaims that "30% of people agreed!" (97)

400

A page number and/or author's name in parentheses

What is an in-text citation?

400

If you have already introduced author in the body of the text, then you include WHAT in the citation...?

Page number but no author's name inside of citation parentheses

400

Introduce Kathryn Schulz as source

New Yorker writer / environmental journalist / award-winning journalist

400

What do you do when the source has no page numbers?

Put just the author's name inside the parentheses

400

Put ? and " in the right place:

Is it true, as Parker recalls, that the event was well attended (56)

Is it true, as Parker recalls, that "the event was well attended" (56)?

500

The last step of quotation integration

What is unpacking?

500

What do you do when the source has no author?

Put just a shortened title inside of parentheses

500

What is going on with this formatting: 

My source argues that "the witness claimed 'she was not there' the night of the incident" (14).

This is the formatting for a quotation of a quotation.

500

If I paraphrase a source instead of citing directly, do I still need an in-text citation?

Yes

500

What would the in-text citation for a digital essay titled "We Hate the MLA Citation Guide" by Saree Makdisi and Kay Gabriel be?

(Makdisi and Gabriel)

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