IXL Works Cited Level K

Compare the student text with the source.

Source: Seymour Reit, Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy, page vii. Published by Harcourt, 1988:

Emma was a feminist long before the word became popular. In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, she joined the Union army disguised as a man and was in the thick of the battle for several years.

Student text:

Emma Edmonds was a young woman who served in the Union army by disguising herself as a male soldier. Even before the women's rights movement was underway, Edmonds believed that men and women should have the same opportunities.

Is the student test plagiarized?

• No, it is not plagiarized.

• Yes, because it fails to sight the source.

• Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and fails to signt the source.

Compare the student text with the source.

Source: Misty Copeland, Life in Motion, page 25. Published by Touchstone, 2014:

As a professional, you have to endure a tremendous amount of criticism and judgment leading up to a performance. You can barely take a step in rehearsal before the dance mistress will clap, stop you, and give you a critique.

Student text:

As a professional ballet dancer, you have to endure a tremendous amount of criticism and judgment leading up to a performance (Copeland 25).

Is the student text plagiarized?

• No, it is not plagiarized.

• Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.

• Yes, because it fails to cite the source.

Compare the student text with the source.

Source: Amanda Montañez, "Unveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep Learning." Published in Scientific American, 2016:

It seems logical that the way to make computers as smart as humans is to program them to behave like human brains.

Student text:

To be as intelligent as human brains, computers should be programmed to function like human brains.

Is the student text plagiarized?

• No, it is not plagiarized.

• Yes, because it fails to cite the source.

• Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and fails to cite the source.

Question

Add an in-text citation using MLA format. The citation should go immediately after the cited text.

What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin"?

Source: Dubliners by James Joyce, page 4. Published by Dover Publications, 1991:

The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin.

• What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin" (Joyce 4)?

• What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin"? (Joyce 4).

• Either of the above

• None of the above

Question

Add an in-text citation using MLA format. The citation should go immediately after the cited text.

Solzhenitsyn's narrator exclaims, "Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots!" Through this simple statement, Solzhenitsyn captures the desperation of camp by showing how precious even a pair of boots can become.

Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, page 13. Published by New American Library, New York 2009:

He'd taken such good care of his new boots, softening the leather with grease! Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots! They were tossed into a common heap. Not a hope of finding your own pair in the spring.

• Solzhenitsyn's narrator exclaims, "Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots!" Through this simple statement, Solzhenitsyn captures the desperation of camp by showing how precious even a pair of boots can become.

• Solzhenitsyn's narrator exclaims, "Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots!" Through this simple statement, Solzhenitsyn captures the desperation of camp by showing how precious even a pair of boots can become (13).

• Solzhenitsyn's narrator exclaims, "Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots!" (13). Through this simple statement, Solzhenitsyn captures the desperation of camp by showing how precious even a pair of boots can become.

• Solzhenitsyn's narrator exclaims, "Ah, nothing had been so hard to part with in all his eight years in camps as that pair of boots!" Through this simple statement, Solzhenitsyn captures the desperation of camp by showing how precious even a pair of boots can become (Solzhenitsyn's 13).

Add an in-text citation using MLA format. The citation should go immediately after the cited text.

Frank describes herself and the others hiding in the Annex as "a patch of blue sky" in the midst of dark clouds, providing readers with insight into her feelings.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, page 145. Published by Doubleday, 1995:

I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. . . . [They loom] before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to.

• Frank describes herself and the others hiding in the Annex as "a patch of blue sky", in the midst of dark clouds, providing readers with insight into her feelings (145).

• Frank describes herself and the others hiding in the Annex as "a patch of blue sky", in the midst of dark clouds, providing readers with insight into her feelings (Frank 145).

• Frank describes herself and the others hiding in the Annex as "a patch of blue sky" (145), in the midst of dark clouds, providing readers with insight into her feelings.

• Frank describes herself and the others hiding in the Annex as "a patch of blue sky" in the midst of dark clouds (145), providing readers with insight into her feelings.

What does this Works Cited entry indicate about the cited work?

Camus, Albert. "The Guest." Trans. Justin O'Brien. The Oxford Book of French Short Stories. Ed. Elizabeth Fallaize. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. Print.

It has been translated from another language.Its date of publication is unknown.It has more than two authors.

• It has more than two authors

• Its date of publication is unknown.

• It has been translated from another language

• None of the above

What does this Works Cited entry indicate about the cited work?

Witze, Alexandra. "Race to Unravel Oklahoma's Artificial Quakes." Nature520.7548 (2015): 418–419. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

• It was accessed on April 27, 2015.

• It was published on April 27, 2015.

• It has more than one author.

• All of the abovve

What does this Works Cited entry indicate about the cited work?

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Ed. David V. Erdman. New York: Anchor, 1988. Print.

• It is a poem.

• It is a short story.

• It is a book.

• None of the above

What does this Works Cited entry indicate about the cited work?

Silver, Johanna. "How to Remove a Lawn." Sunset n.d.: n. pag. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.

• It is a poem.

• It was published on April 1, 2015.

• It has no available publication date.

• none of the above