Formatting questions
Name that source
In-text citations
Other MLA guidelines
Strategies for avoiding plagiarism
100
while article titles have quotation marks around them, books and Magazine Titles should be ________.
What is italicized?
100
Name the type of source cited here: Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
What is a book with one author?
100
The purpose of an in-text citation.
What is to identify a source in the body of the paper when you summarize, quote, or paraphrase it?
100
If you are having trouble citing a source, who should you ask for help?
Who is your instructor?
100
The term that describes summarizing or re-phrasing an author’s ideas in my own words.
What is paraphrasing?
200
The author's name is in this order in the work's cited list.
What is last name, then first name?
200
Name the type of source: BlogPulse. Intelliseek, n.d. Web. 24 July 2010.
What is a website?
200
These mark where source material begins and ends and help identify the author.
What are attributive tags or signal phrases?
200
You go online to do research, and you find a good news article on the New York Times website. When you are citing this source, what should the “medium of publication” be?
What is web?
200
The term that describes summarizing or re-phrasing an author’s ideas in my own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
What should your margins be in a paper formatted in MLA style?
What is 1 inch?
300
Name the type of source: "Sledgehammer." Grey's Anatomy. Dir. Shonda Rhimes. ABC. WCIS, Springfield, IL. 24. Sept. 2015. Television.
What is an episode from a television program?
300
If a website does not have an author, you should cite it this way.
What is by title or website name.
300
True or False When you are citing a website, you no longer have to list the web address.
What is True. Just mention that it is web source.
300
The term for what happens when you paraphrase a source but follow the wording of you original source too closely.
What is patchwriting?
400
Your list of works cited, as a whole, should be formatted according to specific guidelines. Name two of those guidelines
What is double spaced and alphabetized? Also--What is hanging indentation?
400
Name the type of source: Bounds, Amy. "Thinking Like Scientists." Daily Camera [Boulder]. Scripps Interactive Newspaper Group, 26 June 2007. Web. 26 June 2007.
What is an article from a newspaper or newswire site?
400
When you have an indirect citation of a source you found in another source, you should cite it this way. (see table 22.2)
What is mention the author you are quoting in the text and then in the parenthetical citation, show where the information was originally found.
400
When citing a website, you must list the website’s “publisher or sponsor.” Where could you find that information?
What is About Us” section, copyright statement on the bottom of the page, or the site’s home page?
400
True or False? You should use in-text citations even for visuals such as graphs, photographs, or videos?
What is true?
500
If you are citing an article and you cannot find out who the author was, what should you put at the beginning of that entry in your list of works cited?
What is the title of the article?
500
Name the type of source: Welch, John R., and Ramon Riley. "Reclaiming Land and Spirit in the Western Apache Homeland." American Indian Quarterly 25.4 (2001): 5-14. Web. 19 Dec. 2001.
What is an article from an online scholarly journal?
500
When the author has more than one work in the works cited list, you should include a short version of this to distinguish between entries.
What is the title of the specific work?
500
True or False. In the absence of reliable page numbers, it is fine to omit page number references from your parenthetical citation.
What is true?
500
One way you can use an attributive tag to frame a source rhetorically or shape a reader's response. (see page 564).
Possible question: What is add the author's credentials to enhance credibility or indicate the sources purpose?