1 .		MLA stands for which of the following?
2 .		Which of the following is the accurate MLA method for in-text citation, that is, for giving credit to a source within the body of a paper?
3 .		In which of the following examples is the period placed correctly?
4 .		Suppose you have a magazine article that has no stated author. What key word, instead of an author, should be placed in the in-text citation?
5 .		Suppose you found two books written by one author, and you want to quote from both books in your paper: Burton, Jon. Cats Unmasked. Boise: Indy Publishing, 2003. Buron, Jon. Designer Dogs. Boise: Indy Publishing, 2002. How do you write in-text citations so that your readers know from which book each quotation comes? Choose the correct pair from the following examples.
6 .		Suppose you just have information from one page of one source that you cite multiple times in one of your paragraphs. Which of the following examples shows the preferred method for citing this source?
7 .		Imagine you are citing the following book, written by two authors: Ballenger, Bruce, and Barry Lane. Discovering the Writer Within. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest, 1996. How should the names appear in the in-text citation? Choose the correct example from the following:
8 .		Imagine you are citing the following book, written by more than three authors: Jones, Hillary, et al. The Unmasking of Adam. Highland Park: Pegasus, 1992. How should the names appear in your in-text citation? Choose the correct example from the following:
9 .		On the Works Cited page, electronic-source citations usually include at least two dates. What do these dates record? Choose the correct pair from the following:
10 .		Suppose you went to this Internet address for research: www.brainstyles.com. Then you found the perfect article for your project within the Brainstyles.com site at this Internet address: http://www.brainstyles.com/research.html. For your Works Cited page, the MLA requires that you record the Internet address of a source in which of the following formats?
11 .		Imagine that you would like to quote these words from Winston Churchill: "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." You found the quotation on page 57 in a book by an author named Sarah Evans. What is the correct way to write your in-text citation?
12 .		You need an in-text citation when you are citing common knowledge.   True  False
13 .		To place a long quotation into block format, indent the quotation 10 spaces from the left margin.   True  False
14 .		Long quotations should be single-spaced.   True  False
15 .		The body of the paper should be double-spaced.   True  False
16 .		Citations on the Works Cited page are single-spaced.   True  False
17 .		In MLA format, titles of books are underlined.   True  False
18 .		In MLA format, titles of newspaper articles are underlined.   True  False
19 .		In MLA format, use one-inch margins for your paper.   True  False
20 .		The MLA documentation style is a name-date system.   True  False
21 .		On the Works Cited page, citations are alphabetized.   True  False
22 .		Once you have given the full names of authors, you can refer to them by their first names if you mention them again.   True  False
23 .		In Shakespeare's day, authors sometimes considered it flattery to "steal" lines or even whole stories from each other and to pass them off as their own writing. It was a compliment to the original author. Today it is not considered mere flatter; it is considered plagiarism. What are some reasons why authors today must credit their sources? What is the purpose of documentation?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
24 .		What advice would you give to other students about efficiently and accurately documenting their sources in a research paper?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
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