MLA Citation Exercise –
This exercise should be a review on how to do entries on a Works Cited page and how to do in-text citations in an essay. To do this exercise, you can use whatever reference book you may have that explains MLA 2016 or later. Our textbook, RWL, has a small section on MLA citations on pages 148-164. Or, you can go to owl@purdue.edu for a great online resource.
Part One Directions:
Read through the instructions on this document.
Open a new document on which to complete this assignment. Do NOT do this assignment on this page.
Create a Works Cited entry for each of the following.
Put the document in alphabetical order.
Make sure the document is in 12 pt. Times New Roman font and double-spaced.
Remember, the first line of each entry should be up against the left-hand margin (1”) and each subsequent line for that entry should be indented one tab.
Please note: All the information you will need to do a Works Cited entry is below, and in fact, there may be too much information. You need to sort through and only pull up the information that is pertinent. Also, the information below may not be capitalized correctly, so you will need to follow the rules of capitalization for titles even if the original source does not.
A hard copy of a book written by Dan Downer titled Misery Loves Company: a look at the psychological life of Garfield. It was published by Random House in 2019.
A journal article from the New England Journal of Medicine called A day at the beach written by George Sand and Debbie Sky. This article appears in volume four, issue five and was published in Fall 2019. This is a hard copy, and the article is on pages 340-345.
An article from a magazine that came from the Academic Search Complete database. The article is from Time and is titled Not So Fast by Tara Slowe, Fred Tortus, Jack Waite, and Don Hopper. The article was written on 7/23/18, volume 120/issue number 7, and is on pages 23-27. The URL is http://xxxxxxxx.
On the New York Times website, there is an article titled, will I ever be happy in the city? , but there is no author listed. This website is sponsored/published by The Times Corp. It was posted on 7/10/2018. The URL is http://yyyyyyyy.
On Netflix, there is a documentary titled Oops, we did it again: politics in America. The film was created by Dawn Thomas and is narrated by Matt Damon. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and was released on 6/22/2019 and can be accessed on Netflix at www.netflix.com/watch/zzzzzzzz (Links to an external site.).
There is an article titled, Why Batman is better than Superman, which is in an anthology titled, At Issue. This article was written by Carrie Kelly and edited by Selina Kyle, and it was published by Gotham Press in 2019. This article was in volume 10 and was on pages 35 – 40.
Part Two Directions: For each of the sources above, I have included a small amount of text from the source. You will need to properly punctuate (this also includes adding italics and quotation marks where necessary) and cite the information as if you are using it in your essay. Include this part of the assignment on the same document as part one, but start it on a new page.
The following quote is from page 35 in the book by Dan Downer:
Dan Downer states that “Garfield had struggled with his weight all of his life, but it was the introduction to lasagna that really changed the way he ate.
The following summary is from page 342 of the article by George Sand and Debbie Sky:
According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, studies have shown that spending a day at the beach, especially with family or close friends, can reduce a person’s stress level by 95%.
The following summary is from page 25 of the Time magazine article.
As a society, we lack patience due to the “get it now” mentality that is prevalent in our society overall. Even the microwave isn’t fast enough for us anymore.
The following quote is from the article on the New York Times website:
An article on the New York Times website claims that “humans need access to green space on a regular basis; unfortunately, safe green spaces are in short supply in many U.S. cities.
The following quote is from the documentary on Netflix:
In this documentary, political pundit Brittany Spears notes that “Americans have proven consistently that they cannot be trusted to put the needs of the community above their own needs.
The following summary is from the article by Carrie Kelly and is on page 38:
The battle over who is the better superhero has raged for decades and traveled from school yards to corporate boardrooms, and still there is much debate.
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