What does a MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the source is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text?
Author and publication year: (Doe, 2007)
Author, publication year, and page number (preceded by p.): (Doe, 2007, p. 25)
Author and page number separated by a comma: (Doe, 25)
Author and page number without intervening punctuation (Doe 25)
In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be
... enclosed in quotation marks and single-spaced
... indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks
... double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks
... indented one inch (all lines) and single-spaced
Indirect sources are cited by
... enclosing them in single quotation marks
... using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number: (qtd. in Doe 25)
If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.
True
False
To cite an anonymous source in-text, what information should be included in parentheses?
the word anonymous and the page number: (Anonymous 25)
the full source title and the page number: (The Wonderful World of Documentation 25)
the shortened form of the title (appropriately formatted) and the page number: (Wonderful World 25)
the page number: (25)
Multiple parenthetical references are
... separated by a semicolon
... not allowed in MLA style
... separated by a comma
Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?
Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271).
Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).
Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271).
Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.
Each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the text.
True
False
When should et al. be used in MLA style?
when the source has more than 1 author
when the source has 3 or more authors
if the source has more than 4 authors and has already been mentioned once in the document
never
Consider the following direct quotation from page one of Sullivan's Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama and then identify which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style:
"The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior."
The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior.
"The passage reveals something important about forgetting in early modern literature and culture, that it is frequently associated with resistance to or the retooling of normative models for behavior."
Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" reveals the importance of forgetting and its frequent association with struggles against or the refashioning of standardizing models of behavior.
Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" evinces an early modern preoccupation with the relationship between memory and changing standards in behavior (Sullivan 1).