MLA 8 Citing Quiz (ENGL 308W)

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. The student is quoting from page 27 of the following article: Robin, Corey. "Garbage and Gravitas." The Nation, 7 June 2010. pp. 21-27.

(27).

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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").

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. The student is citing material from page 167 of the following essay in an anthology: Franzen, Jonathan. "David Foster Wallace." Best American Nonrequired Reading 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).

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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 of Representation." 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).

In your paper, you summarize but do not quote a Congressional hearing from 1899 which is in the public domain.

Have to cite it

You find a brilliant article in favor of an idea you are advocating in your paper. You decide to use this writer's argument but turn it completely into your own words.

Have to cite it

You find a photograph on a web site and paste it into your paper.

Have to cite it

You find the phrase "cultural tapeworm" in an article and decide to use it in your paper.

Have to cite it

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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)

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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 from an old function" (You're Wearing That? 194).

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. The student is quoting the words of Thierry Gardere, which appear on page 20 of the following source: Korten, Tristram. "Rum and Hope." The Atlantic, May 2010, pp. 19-20.

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

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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.

(Fallows, "Cyber" 60).

You read in several places about how popular Facebook is today. You mention this in your paper.

Don't have to cite it

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. 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.

(Walker).