MLA Documentation

MLA documentation exists to help you not ______________

• plagiarize

• steal

• get annoyed

• a and b

Which option of the in-text citation format is correct?

• (Smith 54)

• (Smith, 54)

• (Smith, 24 Jan. 1999)

• (Smith 24 Jan. 1999)

The title of the book should be enclosed in quotation marks.

• True

• False

The title of a magazine should be italicized.

• True

• False

an alphabetized list of publication information for sources referenced in a work (MLA)

• works cited

• periodical

• reference page

• foot notes

When documenting a single author in parenthetical documentation, which is correct?

• This point has been argued before and has proven to be "quite successful." (Glenn Frye, 197)

• This point has been argued before and has proven to be "quite successful" (Frye 197).

• This point has been argued before and has proven to be "quite successful. (Frye 197)"

• This point has been argued before and has proven to be "quite successful" (Frye, 197).

When documenting a work by a single author whose name you have already mentioned in the sentence, which is the correct parenthetical documentation?

• Frye has argued this point before (Frye 197).

• Frye has argued this point before. (197).

• Frye has argued this point before. (Frye, 197).

• Frye has argued this point before (197).

True or False: Wikipedia is an acceptable, credible source to use for research.

• TRUE

• FALSE

If you have used information from a source and have not used a citation, you have plagiarized/stolen their information.

• True

• False

In MLA documentation, you put the title of a book

• in italics or underlined

• in quotation marks

• in parenthesis

• it doesn't need any demarcation