PLAGIARISM: Appropriate Quotation (MLA 2016 Style)
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: Do temperamentally violent kids seek out shows that express feelings they already have, or are they in it for the adrenaline boost? --Maggie Cutler
"Do temperamentally violent kids seek out shows that express feelings they already have . . . ?" Cutler asks (64).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: The Internet has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives--reporters embedded in their homes, their schools, their own heads. But this is also why it's dangerous, why we can't seem to recognize that it's just a medium. We're afraid. Our kids know things we don't. --Amy Goldwasser
According to Goldwasser, the cause for fear is that Internet access "has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives. . . . Our kids know things we don't" (667).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: To be very clear, then, I am not criticizing the work of Habitat for Humanity. --Diana George
Although George criticizes the visuals that advertise Habitat for Humanity, she is careful to state, "I am not criticizing the work of Habitat for Humanity" (623).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: Following a rule of good manners may mean doing something you do not want to do, and the weird rhetoric of our self-indulgent age resists the idea that we have such things as obligations to others. --Stephen L. Carter
Describing a decline in the behavior of young people, Stephen L. Carter worries that "the weird rhetoric of [this] self-indulgent age resists the idea" of self-control and good manners (672).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. --Joan Didion
Didion suggests that "[g]rief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it" (929).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: Most [magazine] editors test their covers in focus groups in an endless search for the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves--and to avoid costly mistakes. --Katharine Q. Seelye
Seelye argues that magazine editors seek "the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves" (604).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: Anecdotally, adolescent vegetarianism seems to be rising, thanks in part to YouTube animal slaughter videos that shock the developing sensibilities of many U.S. children. But there isn't enough long-term data to prove that [the trend is real], according to government researchers. --Mike Stobbe
If more adolescents are becoming vegetarian, this trend may be related to "YouTube animal slaughter videos that shock the developing sensibilities of many U.S. children" (Stobbe 649).
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style. Original Source: I haven't found a soul who tried this machine who wasn't appalled, baffled, or both. --David Pogue
When evaluating the BlackBerry, Pogue complains "I haven't found a soul who tried this machine who wasn't appalled, baffled, or both" (D7).
