MLA Citation Practice

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).

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

What is the correct parenthetical citation for this online newspaper article?

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.

• (Dean)

• (Dean, "Executive")

• (Dean "Executive")

• (Cornelia Dean)

What is the correct parenthetical citation for this online movie review?

Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Roger Ebert Reviews, 1 June 2006, http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016.

• (Ebert, Review)

• (Ebert, Roger)

• (Ebert)

• (Ebert, An Inconvenient Truth)

What is the correct parenthetical citation for this journal article?

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.

• (Gowdy, 27)

• (Gowdy)

• (Gowdy, "Avoiding" 27)

• (Gowdy 27)

True or False: Only direct quotes need to be cited.

• True

• False

What type of source is this?

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.

• magazine article online

• newspaper article online

• scholarly journal article in an online database

• page on a website

Select which parenthetical 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

What is the correct in-text citation?

• (Berenbaum and Kramer 132).

• (Berenbaum, Kramer 132).

• (Berenbaum and Kramer).

• (Berenbaum and Kramer 132)

What is the correct MLA in-text citation?

• "Fogarty".

• (Fogarty).

• (Fogarty.).

• (Fogarty 22).