College Writing Test Review

Format the title of a long work, like a newspaper, movie, or book, by

• putting it in double quotation marks

• putting it in single quotation marks

• italicizing it

• putting it in bold

Which is a properly formatted in-text citation? (Pay attention to period placement and comma use)

• She ate the oysters (Juarez, 2014).

• She ate the oysters (Juarez 2014).

• She ate the oysters. (Juarez, 2014)

• She ate the oysters. (Juarez 2014)

In APA in-text citations, if you don't know the author, you

• Write in Author, unknown

• Say No Author

• Say N.A. for no author

• Use the title instead

In an APA in-text citation, if you don't know the date, you

• Write in Date, Unknown

• Say n.d. for no date

• Just leave it out

• Make up a date

You should format the title of a short work, like an article from a newspaper, poem, or song, like this

• "Lost Boy"

• 'Lost Boy'

• Lost Boy

• Lost Boy

Format a long quotation (over 40 words) in APA by

• italicizing all the words

• single spacing the quotation

• indenting the whole quotation as a block from the margin

• indenting the first line of of the quotation like you would a paragraph

A quotation over ___words is considered a long quotation in an APA formatted paper and treated differently from shorter quotations.

• 4

• 14

• 40

• 400

In an APA in-text citation, you format more than one author name as follows (pay attention to name use and use of & vs. and)

• (Cirio and McGovern, 2021)

• (Cirio & McGovern, 2021)

• (Cirio, J. & McGovern, H., 2021)

• (Cirio, Joe and McGovern, Heather, 2021)

Which is properly punctuated? Pay attention to comma use, quotation mark use, and period placement.

• According to the New York Times, "blah,blah."

• According to the New York Times, "blah blah".

• According to the New York Times, 'blah blah.'

• According to the New York Times "blah blah."

Format the title of a newspaper, a long work, like this

• Wall Street Journal

• "Wall Street Journal"

• 'Wall Street Journal'

• WALL STREET JOURNAL