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100
Does the in-text citation below follow MLA style?

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford UP, 1967. Print.

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Yes.

(Author's last name Page #)
(Wordsworth 263)

100
What's the first component of a Works Cited entry?
Author's last name.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
100
True or False: All papers written in MLA style should be in 12-point, Times New Roman font. They should also be double-spaced with 1-inch margins.
True
100
True or False: Since its first printing in 1985, the MLA Style Manual has not made significant revisions to its guidelines.
False
100
What is the function of the ellipses in the quote below?

In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).
Use ellipses when omitting words.
200
When is a citation not needed?
"Common sense and ethics should determine your need for documenting sources. You do not need to give sources for ... common knowledge. Remember, this is a rhetorical choice, based on audience. If you're writing for an expert audience of a scholarly journal, for example, they'll have different expectations of what constitutes common knowledge." --- Purdue OWL
200
True or False: When writing a citation for a website, you should always include the website's URL.
"MLA no longer requires the use of URLs in MLA citations. Because Web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the Web (e.g., on multiple databases), MLA explains that most readers can find electronic sources via title or author searches in Internet Search Engines." --- Purdue Owl
200
True or False: You should create a title page for your researched argument essay.
False! MLA style does not require a title page.
200
True or False: Writers outside North America do not follow MLA style. They prefer APA style.
False. MLA guidelines are "followed throughout North America and in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries around the world."

APA: psychology, education, and other social sciences.
MLA: literature, arts, and humanities.
200
What is the function of the brackets in the quote below?

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).
Use brackets when adding words inside a quote.
300
When is it OK to include ONLY the page number inside the parenthesis of an in-text citation?
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford UP, 1967. Print.

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
300
When should you use italics in a Works Cited page? When should you use quotes?
"Use italics for titles of larger works (books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works (poems, articles)." --- Purdue Owl
300
What goes in the paper's header?
Author's last name and page #

(Everdeen 1)
300
MLA is one of many styles currently in use. Name two other styles.
MLA: literature, arts, and humanities.
APA: psychology, education, and other social sciences.
AMA: medicine, health, and biological sciences.
Turabian: designed for college students to use with all subjects.
Chicago: used with all subjects in the "real world" by books, magazines, newspapers, and other non-scholarly publications.
300
What does "et al" mean?
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

Use when a source has more than 3 authors.
400
Does the in-text citation below follow MLA style? Why or why not?

"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." (Impact of Global Warming 6).
No. Quotations needed around the article title.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6).

"Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List." --- Purdue Owl
400
After a long night of scouring the internet for scholarly articles, you finally stumbled upon a relevant and reliable article, downloaded it, and wrote the below citation for it. You were just about to print out your Works Cited page when you realized there's something wrong with this citation. What's wrong?

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Print.
The medium of publication, since you found the article online.

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.
400
What's a hanging indent?
All lines but the first line are indented. Use hanging indents in your works cited page and annotated bibliography.
400
When was the MLA founded? Guess within 20 years.
1883
400
What does "n.d." stand for?
No date available.

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.
500
When should you use a semicolon inside an in-text citation? (Assume that the semicolon is NOT part of an article's title.)
When you are citing evidence that appears in two or more of the sources listed on your Works Cited page.

Example:

. . . as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).
500
This Works Cited page does not follow MLA style in at least three ways. Name these three inaccuracies.

Works Cited


Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution." Usnews.com. US News & World Rept., 6 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009. Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.

"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print.

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, 2006. DVD.

Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print.

Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com. Sun-Times News Group, 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2009.

Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.

Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print.

---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. Science Online. Web. 24 May 2009.
No indents.
Missing italics.
Not alphabetized.
500
Fix the heading below so that it follows MLA style.

Elizabeth L. Angeli
Professor Patricia Sullivan
English 624
February 12, 2012
Elizabeth L. Angeli
Professor Patricia Sullivan
English 624
12 February 2012
500
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
500
When should you use three dashes (---) in a Works Cited page?
Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print.

---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. Science Online. Web. 24 May 2009.