A Quiz on Citations

You're doing a paper on death and dying and in the course of your research, you have talked to a family friend whose child recently died. You want to include something she said to you, although it is not a quotation. Do you have to reference this, and if so, how would you do it?

• Put a parenthetical note (if in APA style, which is suitable for the social sciences) as follows: (J. Doe, personal communication, April 1, 2004), but do not put it into the reference list.

• Since no one could check on this, and you are really putting it into your own words, it is not necessary to cite it at all.

• It is sufficient to mention in your text that a friend had experienced this situation.

What is the full form of MLA8?

• Malfunction-loli-amalgamation

• Multi-lingual-amplification

• Modern-language-association

You like the examples or illustrations several authors have used to prove a point and you want to pull them all together and use them in your own paper in a list. What ought you to do?

• Examples used to prove a point are managed a little differently than opinions, ideas, or facts. These are treated the same way we would treat common knowledge, and not referenced.

• Include a citation after each separate example to indicate where you found them.

• Include them in one parenthetical citation or endnote after you have finished listing them.

usually how many core elements are required for an MLA8 Citation?

• 5

• 13

• 24

• 9

You've found an article on the Web in a foreign language, and you've either translated some passages from it yourself or used an on-line language translator such as Babelfish to translate it into English. By the time you whip it into good academic English no one would be able to trace it. What do you do?

• It's the same as any other article and you have to cite it.

• No one would ever be able to find out where you found your ideas. Forget about citing it.

Recognise the publisher of the story ( S.E Hinton, The outsiders, USA:Viking press, Dell publishing. (There are two answers, I repeat two answers - its a checkbox by the way)

• S.E Hinton

• Viking Press

• Dell Publishing

• USA

What font is recommended for MLA8 citations?

• Times New Roman

• Arial

• Calibri

• Times (not Roman)

Last week your professor talked about her theory of the best method for electoral reform in a lecture. Since she knows all about it, do you need to reference this?

• Since you are writing the paper for your professor, it is understood that all that has been said in the lectures are part of the common knowledge of the course.

• You need to cite it in the body of your paper but not in the reference list.

• You need to cite it in the body of your paper and in the reference list. You need to cite it in the body of your paper and in the reference list.

What is the correct method of citing a YouTube Video in MLA8?

• Include YouTube and uploader Name

• only uploader name

• Only Youtube or none

• None

You had a brilliant brainwave about the short story you are writing an essay about. But when reading an article about the short story, you see that the same idea is mentioned. It was your own idea too, so do you need to reference it?

• Yes. Great minds think alike, but even if you did think of the idea on your own you still need to reference the published source. Otherwise, readers will accuse you of plagiarism. You can use this source to support your argument, and you can try to show how your idea differs from the other author's, but you still have to cite the other source.

• No. If you come up with an idea on your own, you don't have to cite the other source.