MLA Citation Questions

The student is providing in-text documentation for the following online source, which includes no page numbers: Walker, Rob. "Stuck on You." The New York Times Magazine, 3 June 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06fob-consumed-t.html. Accessed 9 June 2010.

According to a 2008 study, drivers with bumper stickers on their cars are much more likely to display road rage (Walker).

The student is citing the following online work; its author is unknown: "114,000 iPads Hacked." CNN.com, Cable News Network, 10 June 2010, cnn.com/videos/tech/2010/06/10/nr.levs.ipad.security.breach.cnn. Accessed 11 June 2010.

As many as 114,000 new iPad owners were left vulnerable after hackers took advantage of security lapses and gathered private user information ("114,000 iPads").

For an essay about women in American films from the 1960s, the student is citing the performances of George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn and the work of the director Blake Edwards in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The film was released in 1961 and distributed on DVD in the Paramount Centennial Collection in 2009.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Performances by George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn, directed by Blake Edwards, Paramount Pictures, 1961.

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries). The student is quoting from the article "Surveillance: Taking It Downtown" by Brennan David, published on March 28, 2010, in the newspaper Columbia Daily Tribune. The student accessed the article on the Web on June 9, 2010.

David, Brennan. "Surveillance: Taking It Downtown." Columbia Daily Tribune, 28 Mar. 2010, www.columbiatribune.com/news/perspectives/surveillance-taking-it-downtown/article_d9197f56-2331-5d7f-9894-03efb04fe7b8.html. Accessed 9 June 2010.

The student is citing "The Enhancement of the Senses," a review of the book The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. The review appeared in the magazine The Nation on May 31, 2010, on pp. 33-36.

Findlen, Paula. "The Enhancement of the Senses." Review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes. The Nation, 31 May 2010, pp. 33-36.

The student is citing material from page 167 of the following essay in an anthology: Franzen, Jonathan. "David Foster Wallace." Best American NonrequiredReading 2009, edited by Dave Eggers, Mariner Books, 2009, pp. 167-71.

Franzen explains that details for David Foster Wallace were "a way of connecting, on relatively safe middle ground, with another human being" (167).

The student is quoting from page 210 of the following essay, which appears in a book: George, Diana. "Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem ofRepresentation." Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics, edited by John Trimbur, U of Pittsburgh P, pp. 209-28.

George examines videos for Habitat for Humanity and explores whether "reliance on stereotypes of poverty can, in fact, work against the aims of the organization producing them" (210).

The student is citing two books by Lawrence Lessig. One is Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, published by Penguin Press in 2008. The other is Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, published by Penguin in 2004.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Penguin Press, 2004.- - -. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008.

The student is quoting from page 258 of the article with the following works-cited entry: Reichert, Julie, et al. "Narrative Medicine and Emerging Clinical Practice." Literature and Medicine, vol. 27, no. 2, Fall 2008, pp. 248-71.

Many medical students participating in the study "commented on the ways that writing helped them become more observant and thoughtful" (Reichert et al. 258).

The student is citing the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Brungart. It was published by North Point Press, an imprint of the publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in 2002.

McDonough, William, and Michael Brungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.

The student is summarizing a point from page 139 in the following article: Ruzich, Constance M., and A. J. Grant. "Predatory Lending and the Devouring of the American Dream." Journal of American Culture, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 137-45.

Ruzich and Grant claim the term predatory lending suggests a metaphor that sheds light on current American attitudes toward credit and the relationships between lending institutions and borrowers (139).

The student is quoting the words of Thierry Gardère, which appear on page 20 of the following source: Korten, Tristram. "Rum and Hope." The Atlantic, May 2010, pp. 19-20.

Thierry Gardère believes that "what we have to do in Haiti to survive is to be completely self-sufficient" (qtd. in Korten 20).

The student is quoting from the unsigned editorial "Asserting Silence," published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 4, 2010.

"Asserting Silence." Editorial. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 June 2010, p. A16.

The student is summarizing the article "What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?" by Stephanie Camp. The article appeared online in The Huffington Post on June 9, 2010. The student accessed the article on June 17, 2010.

Camp, Stephanie. "What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?" The Huffington Post, 9 June 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-camp/what-does-the-millennial_b_606077.html. Accessed 17 June 2010.

The student is paraphrasing page 265 of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris. The book was published by Penguin Press in 2008.

Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Press, 2008.

The student is quoting from page 194 of the following work, which is one of two works by the author Deborah Tannen in the list of works cited: Tannen, Deborah. You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. Ballantine Books, 2006.

Tannen claims that in some cases a new medium such as email "just substitutes a new form for an old function" (You're Wearing That? 194).

The student is quoting from a review by Betsy Sharkey (titled "Untangling the Past") of the film The Secret in Their Eyes, which was directed by Juan José Campanella. The review was published April 16, 2010, and accessed online on May 3, 2010, from the Los Angeles Times.

Sharkey, Betsy. "Untangling the Past." Review of The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella. Los Angeles Times, 16 April, 2010, articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/16/entertainment/la-et-secret-20100416. Accessed 3 May 2010.

The student is quoting the following one of two works by the same author that appear in the list of works cited. Fallows, James. "Cyber Warriors." The Atlantic, Mar. 2010, pp. 58-63.

Some worry about a cyber threat to American security, "that organizations or individuals may be spying on, tampering with, or preparing to inflict damage on America's electronic networks" (Fallows, "Cyber" 60).

The student is quoting from page 27 of the following article: Robin, Corey. "Garbage and Gravitas." The Nation, 7 June 2010, pp. 21-27.

Toward the end of a review of two biographies of Ayn Rand, Robin asks the following question: "[H]ow could such a mediocrity . . . exert such a continuing influence on the culture at large?" (27).

The student is paraphrasing from the second edition of the book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman. It was published in 2009 by Three Rivers Press, which is an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, which itself is a division of Random House.

Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World. 2nd ed., Crown Publishing Group, 2009.