In-Text Citation Practice

How do you properly format this quotation and citation?
I smiled- for what had I now to fear?
Edgar Allan Poe
page 87

• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear?" (Poe 87).
• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear" (Poe 87)?
• "I smiled- for what had I now to fear? (Poe, 87)".
• "I smiled, for what had I now to fear?" (Poe, 87)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In-text citations are also known as...

• Textual citations
• Parentheses citations
• In-text parentheses
• Parenthetical citations

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Paraphrasing another person's ideas or words does NOT require an in-text citation.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Is the use of quotation and in-text citation correct?
In The Hitchhiker, Ronald Adams asks the mechanic, "What about hitchhikers?" to which the mechanic replies, "(half-laughing) Hitchhikers- here?" (Fletcher 95). 

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

The four parts of an in-text citation are...

• open parenteses, author's last name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's first name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's last name, a comma, the page number, and a close parentheses
• parentheses, quote, comma, author's last name

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which quote and citation is properly formatted?  The information for the cited quote is the following
He was stone dead.
Edgar Allan Poe
page 85

• "He was stone dead. (85 Poe)"
• "He was stone dead" (Poe 85).
• "He was stone dead." (Poe, 85)
• "He was stone dead" (Poe, 85).

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

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

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A MLA in-text/paranthetical citation should be located:

• just after the information being cited

• just before the information being cited

• at the bottom of the page

• on the last page of the paper

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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 p. 10).

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

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why should students use MLA Format?

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9