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NAME: _________________________________________DATE: ______________MLA PRACTICE EXERCISESUsing the OWL at Purdue () and the MLA section of our blog site () I want you to answer the following questions and exercises.What FOUR things are included in a MLA is the HEADING?2. True or False: In a works cited page, “the”, “a”, and “an” count when considering placement in alphabetical order?3. True or False: When the author’s name is given in the introduction to a quotation, it is NOT required in the in-text citation unless there are NO page numbers?4. What should I place in an in-text citation if there is NO given author for the work I am citing? It usually comes after the author in works such as articles.5. Describe the way that short quotation is different from a block/long quotation.6. The following ending of this quotation and citation are both INCORRECT. Please re-write the short quotation and citation below correctly: "This point has been argued before." (Glenn Frye, 197)7. I have a quotation from a work written by Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth. How do I write the in-text citation for their work:Fill in the Blank –> (______________________________).8. True or False: MLA papers require title pages.9. I am quoting a source written by Aristotle, Plato, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Quintillian, and Augustine. How do I properly cite these in an in-text citation:Fill in the blank –> (_____________________________________).10. True or False: This is a properly formatted MLA citation for a book:Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore’s dilemma. New York, NY: Penguin Group.11. Take the citation from Question 10 (below) and rewrite it in proper MLA formatting: Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore’s dilemma. New York, NY: Penguin Group.12. Name the three ways one can integrate outside material into your paper. One of them is direct quotation, what are the other two?13. The following is representative of WHAT type of Works Cited Entry: "Ideology." The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed., 1997.14. The following Works Cited entry is for what type of source?Bagchi, Alaknanda. “Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’sBashai Tudu.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 15, no 1,Spring 1996, pp. 41-50.15. Write a Works Cited entry for the following: On May 19, 2014, an article was published in Times magazine by Frederick Polk entitled “Money Isn’t Everything.”16. Write a Works Cited entry for the following: A book by George R R Martin called A Game of Thrones. It was published in New York by Bantham Books in 1996.17. How do I write Oxford University Press in a properly formatted Works Cited entry correctly considering rules of abbreviation?18. What do ellipsis, the “…” used for in quotations?19. When using brackets [ ] in a quotation, you are essentially attempting to __________ words to the original quotation in order to clarify it for the reader, as in the example below:According to Kirk, early ideas of virtue centered upon or actually “meant in [their] beginning some [kind of] extraordinary power. The word was applied to the sort of person we might now call ‘the charismatic leader.’ By extension, ‘virtue’ came to imply the qualities of full humanity: strength, courage, capacity, worth, manliness, moral excellence” (343).20. Please try your hand at creating a properly integrated and framed quotation using the following information below:Frank Herbert, author of the science fiction novel Dune“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”The Thesis for the paper is about learning to adapt to changes in one’s personal life.IN-TEXT CITATIONS EXERCISE PracticeDirections: Include a parenthetical in-text citations at the end of each quote, paraphrase, or summarized passage below.1.Provide a in-text or parenthetical citation at the end of the quoted material below from page 6 in this anonymous source: “The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009. We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change.”xddc2.Provide the first author's last name (that’s listed first in this source) followed by et al. or list all the last names in a parenthetical citation at the end of the quoted material below from page 25 in the following source: Stein, Norman, Mindy Lubber, Stuart L. Koman, and Kathy Kelly. Family Therapy: A Systems Approach. Boston: Allyn, 1990. Print.“Help your step children find their own identity in their own space. You can do this by allowing them to decorate their space the way they want. Even better, you can make it a project for the both of you.”3. Provide a parenthetical citation for a block quote with two authors from page 189 in the following source: Nazarene, Jacob and Sarah Moses. Marriage Rules. Chicago: Tyndale, 2011. Print.The rules of a successful marriage are clearly outlined for newlyweds and seasoned couples in Marriage Rules: First, you must marry the right person, one you love and one who loves you. Second, give and take is a necessity. Let love cover the disagreements which will come in any marriage. Three, never carry into tomorrow the petty troubles of today. Forgive at the end of the day, and then forget. Four, don't discuss your disagreements and personal problems with others. You will soon forget these quarrels, but others will remember them forever. Five, try to live within your financial means. Don't try to keepz m,zmQF ................
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