Quiz #8 - MLA In-Text Citations
If the citation listed on the Works Cited page is as follows and you used a quote from page 81, which would properly reflect the in-text citation? Wilson, August. Fences. New York: Penguin Group, 1986.
As Rose stated to make her point, "Lyons was by to see you" (Wilson 81).
The following in-text citation and matching Works Cited page citation are CORRECT because... We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming"). Works Cited "The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. www.climatehotmap.org/. Accessed 23 Mar. 2009.
Since the author is unknown, the title of the article is listed first and then referenced in-text.
The following in-text citation for this article is INCORRECT because... We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." (Impact of Global Warming).
Smaller works should be in quotation marks.
If the citation on the Works Cited page is as follows: Russell, Tony, et al. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, 2 Aug. 2016, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/. Then the in-text citation (or parenthetical citation) should appears as follows:
The "MLA Formatting and Style Guide" is one of the most popular resources (Russell et al.).
When would the following in-text citation be appropriate? Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).
When there are multiple editions of a work.
If the citation listed on the Works Cited page is as follows and you used a quote from page 81, which would properly reflect the in-text citation? Wilson, August. Fences. New York: Penguin Group, 1986.
Wilson illustrates this frustration when he has Rose state, "Lyons was by to see you" (81).
In MLA style, giving credit to the works of others in your text is done by using an "in-text citation" which is also known as...
a parenthetical citation.
Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be...
the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.
The source information required in an in-text citation depends on which two things?
the source medium and the source's entry on the Works Cited page.
When a source has no known author, as in the citation below, what should you use instead of an author's name for your in-text citation? "The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. www.climatehotmap.org/. Accessed 23 Mar. 2009.
use a shortened title of the work
