MLA Worksheet #2



MLA Worksheet: Practice Works Cited Page

 Part One: Works-Cited Page Entries

Create entries for an MLA Works-Cited page using the following sources. OWL at Purdue has a very helpful website for this.  After you have written each entry, please type a correctly formatted Works Cited page for submission; be sure to follow all MLA guidelines including double-spacing and alphabetical order.

1.      A book by Henry Goldman and Elizabeth Howard called Ancient Civilizations. It was published in Philadelphia by Gold House in 1989.

2.      An article called “Writing Utensils” in the 5th edition (published in 1985) of the Encyclopedia of the Mediterranean.       

3.      An Internet article by Joan Ingram called “The Secrets of the Greeks.” No publishing date is provided, but it was viewed on 2/2/11 and the URL is .   

4.      A documentary called The Beauty of Greek Architecture. Directed by Alexander Morrow and produced/distributed by Westing Forge in 2001. 

5.      An article/chapter by Joshua Smith, Ph. D. called “Those Insufferable Greeks” on page 201-247 of the book/collection called Infamous World Empires. The collection was edited by James Wygonik and published by Colonial Press of Denver in 1983. 

6.      A newspaper article by John Xavier called “The Amazing Greek Islands.” The article was published in the Washington Post on 9/2/05 and started on page D1.      

7.  An article on pages 24-31 of the magazine 20th Century Travel by Karen Pankratz called “Destination: Athens.” It was published on March 3rd, 2002.

8.  An Internet article with no author called “Famous Greek Battles.” It was published on June 14, 1999, viewed on January 12, 2004, and the URL is .

 9.  A personal interview with Greg Shepherd about Greek History on July 17, 2005.

10.  An Encarta CD-ROM article called “The Persian Threat.” No author listed. Publishing date is May 3, 1998 and it was viewed on October 17, 2004.

 

Works Cited

"Business Coalition for Climate Action Doubles." Environmental Defense. 8 May 2007. Environmental Defense Organization, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2007. .

Clinton, Bill. Interview. New York Times. New Yourk Times, 8 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2007 .

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print.

Guggenheim, Davis, dir. An Inconvenient Truth. Lawrence Bender, 2006. DVD.

Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print.

Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.

Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print.

---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. 24 May 2007. Print.

Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.

Part Two: MLA Documentation Practice Worksheet

Using the information set below, write correct parenthetical citations/documentations for each example.

Information Set:

Donaldson, Sam. Bantering on Watergate. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

Jennings, Peter. Pushing the Limits of Political Journalism. Washington: Greater Politics Press, 1994.

Smith, Charles. I Love Politics: A Guide To Discerning Reality. Chicago: Penn Press, 2001.

Xavier, Jason and Thomas Yater. Political Guide to the United States. New York: Ballantine, 2004.

Xavier, Jason. Somewhere in the Political Realm. New York: Ballantine, 2002.

Citation Questions:

1.) "He spoke to us in German and then left us behind" ( ).

-from Donaldson's Bantering on Watergate, page 45

2.) "I never thought of myself as proud", says Jennings in his book Pushing the Limits of Political Journalism ( ) .

--This source was located on page 107.

3.) "Politics is such an interesting field" ( ).

--From Charles Smith's book, page 451.

4.) "Enraged is how he felt after the episode" ( ).

--From Jason Xavier's book Somewhere in the Political Realm, page 233.

5.) In Political Guide to the United States, Xavier and Yater explore the idea that the U.S. is changing politically ( ).

--From page 544 of this book.

Embedded Questions:

Now, use the quotes given below and embed them into your own sentence. Don’t forget the parenthetical citation!

1. “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” Edgar Allan Poe pg. 482, lines 23-24

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2. “The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly. Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.” Walt Whitman pg. 510, lines 10-12

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3. “Then rattle quicker, heaveier drums—you bugles wilder blow. So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.” Walt Whitman pg. 517 lines 14 and 22

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4. “We slowly drove—He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, for His Civility—“ Emily Dickinson pg. 526 lines 5-8

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