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Purdue OWL MLA Citations Exercise
In this exercise you will create several different MLA in-text citations for a research paper.
An in-text citation appears in a research paper in parenthesis after information from a source is presented. It indicates (1) which source the information comes from and (2) where in that source the information appears (if it is a printed source):
…. One lion authority has written that when he worked for the National Zoo in Washington, DC, he regularly observed cats stalking children who passed by the lion cages (Seidensticker 120).
None of the items in this exercise credit the source in the text (that is, in a signal phrase), and all of them refer to print sources. This means that all of the citations need to (1) name the source in one way or another and (2) indicate a page number.
Use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to complete the items in this exercise. Begin by opening a Web browser, going to owl.purdue.edu, and clicking on the Purdue Online Writing Lab link on the right.
All of the issues below are address in the MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics page, which you can get to from the menu on the left by selecting Research and Citation > MLA Style > MLA Formatting and Style Guide > MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics. (Do not use the “Cite your source automatically in MLA” Citation Machine links that are at the top of many Purdue OWL pages.)
Note: The examples at the Purdue OWL Web site are models to follow; they do not provide the specific answers to the items below.
1. You are writing a research paper, and will be listing this source on your Works Cited page:
Lang, James M. Small Teaching. Jossey-Bass, 2016.
You need to create an in-text citation for a summary from page 155 of the source above. What should the in-text citation look like?
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2. Consider the following Works Cited page entry from a paper you are working on:
Sagan, Carl, and Ann Druyan. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: a Search for Who We Are. Ballantine Books, 1993.
You need to cite a summary from page 176 of the source above. What should the in-text citation look like?
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In-text citation for information from an article by John Seidensticker. The information appears on page 120.
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3. You are using a book called Writing New Media, which was published in 2004 and which lists the authors as Anne Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. You need to cite a quotation from page 42 of this book. What should the in-text citation look like?
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4. Consider the Works Cited page entries for two sources you are using in a paper you are working on:
Thomas, Frank. They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God. Pilgrim Press, 2013.
Thomas, Lewis. The Fragile Species. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
You need to cite a quotation from page 25 of The Fragile Species. What should the in-text citation look like?
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5. Consider the Works Cited page entries for two sources you are using in a paper you are working on:
Ebert, Roger. Awake in the Dark: the Best of Roger Ebert. U of Chicago P, 2008.
– – -. The Great Movies. Broadway Books, 2002.
You need to cite a quotation from page 96 of Awake in the Dark. What should the in-text citation look like?
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6. Consider the following Works Cited page entry:
“Fathers Confused by Changing Family Roles.” Family Monthly, Oct. 1980, pp. 5-6.
You need to cite a paraphrase from page 6 of this article. What should the in-text citation look like?
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7. Consider the following Works Cited page entry:
The New Jerusalem Bible. Edited by Henry Wansbrough, Doubleday, 1985.
You need to cite a quotation from the Book of Revelations, chapter 4, verse 6, as presented in this source. What should the in-text citation look like?
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