MLA Citation Review

Using MLA, which is the correct formatting for an in-text citation?

• (Doe, 2007)

• (Doe, 2007, p. 25)

• (Doe, 25)

• (Doe 25)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In MLA, block (long) quotations should be...

•  ... enclosed in quotation marks and single-spaced

• ... indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks

• ... double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks

• ... indented one inch (all lines) and single-spaced

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Indirect sources are cited by...

•  ... enclosing them in single quotation marks: ' '

• ... using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number: (qtd. in Doe 25)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To cite an anonymous source (no author) in-text, what information should be included in parentheses if the source was called "The Wonderful World of Documentation?"

• (Anonymous 25)

• (The Wonderful World of Documentation 25)

• (Wonderful World 25)

• (25)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Multiple parenthetical references are...

• ... separated by a semicolon

  (Goulimari 125; Russell and Winterbottom 11)

• ... not allowed in MLA style

• ... separated by a comma

  (Goulimari 125, Russell and Winterbottom 11)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).

• Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Each source listed in the Works Cited list must ALSO be cited in the text.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When should et al. be used in MLA style?

• Source has 2 authors

• Source has 3 or more authors

•  If the source has more than 4 authors and has already been mentioned once in the document

• Never

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Consider the following direct quote from page one of Sullivan's Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama and then identify which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style:

"The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior."

• The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior.

• "The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior."

• Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" reveals the importance of forgetting and its frequent association with struggles against or the refashioning of standardizing models of behavior.

• Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" evinces an early modern preoccupation with the relationship between memory and changing standards in behavior (Sullivan 1).

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9