Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citations in MLA

When representing a source's ideas in our own essay, which of the following is TRUE for using a quotation to represent those ideas?

• Have to shorten and condense the original idea, put it into your own words.

• Source idea would be compromised if not used word for word.

• Must be attributed to the original author by using a signal phrase and/or in-text citation.

• Don't need quotation marks for copy and pasted language as long as you have an in-text citation.

Putting a passage from source material into our own words without shortening the content is called...

• quoting

• paraphrasing

• summarizing

To put the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s), is called

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Quoting

Complete the in-text citation (MLA):

author's name: Alice Cook-Gumperz

date of publication: 1986

page where the quote was taken from: 27

According to this author, “[t]he systematic development of literacy and schooling meant a new division in society, between the educated and the uneducated" (________).

The following are the correct techniques for paraphrasing:

(there is more than one correct answer)

• Change from quoted speech to indirect speech (or vice versa).

• Change the structure of the original by breaking it up into new sentences.

• Replace the original's language with synonyms

Bobby said, “I need to take a taxi.”

Bobby said that he needed to hail a cab.

The change in the sentence above is an example of:

• quoting

• paraphrasing

• summarizing

Which of the following sentences is the MOST CORRECT example of using (1) a signal phrase to introduce the source and (2) in-text citation using MLA style?

Original Source Information:

Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Title (in italics): In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board

Publication Date: 12 April 1954

Publisher: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC

• Oppenheimer claimed the sun can seriously damage your skin (1954).

• According to Oppenheimer, the sun "can seriously damage" your skin.

• In the words of famed physicist Oppenheimer, the sun "can seriously damage" your skin (1954, 47).

• Oppenheimer once remarked that the sun "can ... damage" your skin (47).

Which of the following is one correct way to create an in-text citation for this sentence:

The cause of the problem is that "we have too many foods with too much sugar"_____

• (Brown 1233).

• (Brown, p. 1233).

• (Brown, 2015, 1233).

• (Brown, 2015, p. 1233)

Modify the following to correct MLA style citation:

Jones, Chavez, Jackson, and Chen (2010) found that the temperature of the sea severely affected marine mammals.

• Jones et all. (2010) found that...

• Jones, Chavez, Jackson, and Chen (2010) found that...

• Jones et al. found that ....

• Jones, Chavez, Jackson, and Chen found that .... (2010).

You make a statement that summarizes what TWO different sources concluded. What is the correct way to format the MLA in-text citation?

Source 1 is Miller, published in 1999, page 14

Source 2 is Shafranske and Mahoney, 1998, page 72

Several studies have shown similar results _____ .

• Miller p. 14, and Shafranske and Mahoney p. 72

• (Miller, 1999, 14; Shafranske and Mahoney, 1998, 72)

• (Miller; Shafranske & Mahoney)

• (Miller 14; Shafranske and Mahoney 72)