ENGLISH QUIZ #3

In general, how is the Works Cited list arranged?

Alphabetically, by author's last name

MLA requires the first page of your paper to be:

Double-spaced with a heading in the left corner with your name, your professor's name, the course, and the date

If you paraphrase the idea of another person in your paper and accidentally forget to cite the source, that doesn't count as plagiarism because it was unintentional.

False

Suppose you are writing a paper on the nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979. You acquire a newspaper article from a local Pennsylvania newspaper, dated April 12, 1979, which contains an interview with one of the workers of the power plant. Is this newspaper article a primary source?

NO

Consider the following direct quotation from page one of Sullivan's Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama and then identify which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style:

Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" evinces an early modern preoccupation with the relationship between memory and changing standards in behavior (Sullivan 1).

Which of the following is NOT true about scholarly journal articles?

They are written for the general pubic.

In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be

double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks

To determine if information is "fake news," you should:

trace the sources of the information

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).

What does a MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the source is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text?

Author and page number without intervening punctuation (Doe 25)

Why is it important to cite your sources?

all of the above

Each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the text.

True

If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.

True

When you access information online, your citation must always include the date when you accessed the information.

True

A primary source is :

a contemporary account of an event, whitten by someone who experienced or witnessed the event

One way you can tell an article is from a popular magazine is because it:

has a commercial advertisement on one of its pages

Journal articles that have been reviewed by scholars for quality and importance are called:

peer-reviewed articles