Citing Sources Using APA and MLA Formatting Style

1. One of the most important aspects of academic writing is making use of the ideas of other people. This is important as you need to show that you have understood the materials that you have studied and that you can use their ideas and findings in your own way. The following are the three ways of citing sources EXCEPT ONE. What is it?

• to summarize

• to plagiarize

• to paraphrase

• to quote

2. The following are the importance of citing sources in an academic writing EXCEPT ONE. What is it?

• to show your reader you've done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information

• to be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas

• to allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper

• to allow plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors

3. Cassandra was asked to submit an essay that includes citations, but she was not able to indicate the authors of the statements she included in her work. What crime in citing sources did she commit?

• Ordinance 8243

• Republic Act 7160

• Plagiarism

• Anti-Theft Act

4. This refers to a document or ideas owned by authors, publishers, and corporations. Additionally, it is anything that reflects an original thought that is written down or expressed in any media, such as word-processed documents, emails, Web sites, and music.

• Copyright

• Plagiarism

• Infringement

• Intellectual Property

5. In MLA Formatting Style, what is the name of the page where you give credit to authors whose work you used in a paper?

• Reference Page

• Bibliography

• Works Cited

• Sources

6. What is the name of the page where you give credit to authors whose work you used in an APA formatted paper?

• Reference Page

• Bibliography

• Works Cited

• Sources

7. "According to Peters (1983) evidence from first language acquisition indicates that lexical phrases are learnt first as unanalyzed lexical chunks." In the aforementioned in-text citation, what formatting style is used?

• American Psychological Association

• American Physiological Association

• Modern Language Association

• Modern Literary Association

8. "Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46)." In the aforementioned in-text citation, what formatting style is used?

• American Psychological Association

• American Physiological Association

• Modern Language Association

• Modern Literary Association

9. What is the difference between the APA and MLA Formatting Style as used in an in-text citation?

• APA uses author’s first name while MLA uses author’s last name

• APA uses year of publication while MLA uses page numbers

• MLA uses title in title case while APA uses title in sentence case

• All of the aforementioned

10. Which among the following references is using the APA Style?

• Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

• Brown, E. (2013). Comedy and the feminine middlebrow novel. Pickering & Chatto.

• Buchman, Dana. "A Special Education." Good Housekeeping, Mar. 2006, pp. 143-48.

• Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action. University of California Press, 1966.