MLA Citation Exercises

MLA Citation Exercises

Convert the following source information for each source to an MLA-style listing suitable for a Works Cited page. Then write the in-text (parenthetical) citation for that same source. Please pay close attention with all punctuation and capitalization. Please underline the parts that, if it were typed, would be italicized. Also, for this exercise, don’t worry about the hanging indent.

Print Sources

Exercise 1

  • Author(s): Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
  • Book Title: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
  • Publishing Information: New York. Portfolio. 2006
  • Pages quoted: 145-146

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

 

Exercise 2

  • Author(s): Mary Lynch Kennedy and Hadley M. Smith.
  • Book Title: Reading and Writing in the Academic Community, 4th edition
  • Publishing Information: Upper Saddle River, NJ. London. Singapore. Toronto.Prentice Hall. 2010, 2006, 2001.
  • Pages quoted: 132-133

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

 

Exercise 3

 

  • Title of article: Out of time
  • Author: Karl Vick
  • Editor(s): Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, and William E. Cain.
  • Title of magazine: Time magazine
  • Other information: Volume 185, No. 12, April 6, 2015.
  • Article pages: 28-39

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

 

 

Online Sources

Exercise 1

 

  • Author: Ella Griswold
  • Title: The Fracturing of Pennsylvania
    Website: The New York Times Magazine
  • Date: November 17, 2011
  • Publisher/Sponsoring Company: © 2015 The New York Times Company
  • URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

 

Exercise 2

 

  • Author(s): none
  • Website: Food & Water Watch
    Webpage (section of the website): Fracking
  • Date: none
  • Publisher/Sponsoring Company: Food & Water Watch
  • URL: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/fracking/

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

 

Exercise 3

  • Website name: Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Website sponsor: United States. Department of Homeland Security
  • Title of Document: Hurricanes
  • Webpage (section of the website): Plan, Prepare, Mitigate
  • Publication Information: 02/12/2013
  • URL: http://ready.gov/hurricanes

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

Databases

Exercise 1

  • Author(s): Cheryl Irmiter, John F. McCarthy, Kristen L. Barry, Soheil Soliman, and Frederic C. Blow
  • Title: Reinstitutionalization Following Psychiatric Discharge Among VA Patients With Serious Mental Illness: A National Longitudinal Study
  • Publishing Information: Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol.78 Iss.4, 279-286
  • Online information: doi:10.1007/s11126-007-9046-y or http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ Access date

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  • MLA Works Cited Listing
  • MLA Parenthetical

Additional In-Text Scenarios

The following passages contain both paraphrases and direct quotations from some of the sources used in Part I. On the lines below the passage, please provide the appropriate MLA parenthetical citations for the sources indicated.

Exercise 1

Here is a direct quotation by Mike Rose from his article. Please write an adequate signal statement for the beginning of this quotation. No need to copy the entire quote.

“Generalizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world.”

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Exercise 2

Direct quotation taken from the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA reference. Please write an adequate signal statement for the beginning of this quotation. No need to copy the entire quote.

“Between 1970 and 1999, more people lost their lives from freshwater inland flooding associated with tropical cyclones than from any other weather hazard related to such storms.”

 

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Exercise 3

Here is a paraphrase with direct quotation from the Irmiter and others’ article found on page 283. Write a signal statement for the beginning and then supply the appropriate additional information in parentheses after the quoted material.

A majority of veterans with SMI (serious mental illness) who have received outpatient psychiatric treatment and who have been discharged “experienced high rates of reinstitutionalization.”

 

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