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This brief test will bring to your attention the details essential to accurately using MLA documentation.  At the same time it could also function as a worksheet that will help you all through your writing in this course. (Read MLA-4 a, b, & c, PP 440-480, A Writer’s Reference, before you do the quiz.)

 

Part I. Write correctly spaced and punctuated Works Cited entries using the following fabricated sources:

 

1.        A third edition of a book name Grammar Is Fun by Oliver M. Battleax.  The book was published by the Prentice Hall Book Publisher in New York, New York, in 1984.

 

 

 

2.        An essay called Springsteen’s Special Magic by Carla Mayhem in a collection of essays about rock and roll.  The collection, edited by Tipper Gore, is entitled Jump On It, Baby.  It came out in May 1988, published by Macmillan Publishing Company in New York City.  The essay on Springsteen appears on pages 24 through 28.

 

 

 

3.        An article called Madonna as Social Icon that was published in Cultural Currents in the summer of 2000 in volume 7 of that periodical (meaning a scholarly journal or magazine).  Written by Camille Pretentious, the piece appeared on pages 27 through 32.

 

 

 

4.        An article from the first page of section C in New York Times of April 13, 1998.  Entitled How to Train Your Bad Puppy, it was written by Morris E. Rich.  It appeared on the New York Times Online database and was accessed through Nexis-Lexis Academic computer service on February 4, 1999.

 

 

 

Part II. Fill in the blanks:

 

                The MLA style does away with footnotes in source documentation.  Instead, the author of the source and the appropriate ____________ number are given within the paper, surrounded by _____________.  The author’s name and the page number are separated by a ____________, not a comma.  Just the page number is cited if the author’s ___________ is mentioned in your sentence.  The Works Cited list, at the __________ of your paper, is organized according to the _____________.

               

 

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