In-Text Citations

What is the correct format for a parenthetical MLA citation?

• (Smith 5).

• (Smith p. 5).

• .(Smith 5)

• (Smith, 5).

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

True or false? Information that is not considered common knowledge needs to be cited.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

True or false? Only direct quotes need to be cited.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Why should students use MLA Format?

• To avoid plagiarism
• Because teachers say they should
• To make a paper harder
• Students shouldn't use it

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:
Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture. Toronto:
        Random House, 1998.

• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen 7).
  
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (7).
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (The Argument Culture 7).
• Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen, p. 7).

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

True or False: You do not need to include in-text citations when summarizing or paraphrasing information from an outside source. 

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What information do you include if there is no known author of a source? 

• Publication date
• Title of the source
• Publisher name
• You do not need to cite this source

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CCSS.W.9-10.8

The placement of an in-text or parenthetical citation within a paper is important.  Select which in-text citation is properly done from the options below.

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately (Smith 10).
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith 10)
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith p.10)
• (Smith 10) Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

One should introduce a quote with a transition.

• True

• Falso

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

If I paraphrase or summarize information from a work, I do not have to use a parenthetical citation.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2