MLA In-Text Citations Practice

DIRECTIONS: Which citation is written in correct MLA style?

• “It was years before the law’s effects could be seen” (Mitchell “The Lost Law” 210).

• “It was years before the law’s effects could be seen” (Mitchell 210).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

DIRECTIONS: Which citation is written in correct MLA style?

• At that point in history, only 15% of women worked outside the home (Cole 326).

• At that point in history, only 15% of women worked outside the home (Herbert Cole, Women in the Workplace, 326).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

DIRECTIONS: Which citation is written in correct MLA style?

• On page 26, the author states that the number of deaths from that battle was never officially determined (Sullivan).

• On page 26, the author states that the number of deaths from that battle was never officially determined (Sullivan, “The Great War).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

DIRECTIONS: Which citation is written in correct MLA style?

• No other poet ever came close his achievement. (Salk 42)

• No other poet ever came close his achievement (Salk 42).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

DIRECTIONS: Which citation is written in correct MLA style?

• Peters stated that Churchill was not a man known to compromise (54).

• In his book, The Real Churchill, Peters said Churchill was not a man known to compromise. (Peters, 54)

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9