MLA
English 1301
MLA Exercise #1
Works Cited List Exercise--MLA Style
Directions:
In items #1-10 below, I’ve given you information for a source, but that information is presented in a jumbled order, as if it were taken as notes (see the Sample). You are to take the information provided for each source and put it into the correct order to create a proper Works Cited citation in MLA format.
TAKE NOTE:
· Be sure to follow the new 8th edition of the MLA Handbook. The Purdue OWL provides a very detailed and helpful guide to MLA format: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/
· Newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals are often referred to as periodicals in reference guides, such as the Purdue OWL.
· For the items below in EBSCO databases, please use this generic URL: www.ebscohost.com
Sample:
The source is an essay entitled “The More Factor.” The author is Laurence Shames. The essay appeared in a collection of essays entitled Signs of Life in the USA on pages 80 through 86. The collection was published in 2006 by Bedford. The collection was edited by two people: Jack Solomon and Sonia Maasik.
Works Cited:
Shames, Laurence. “The More Factor.” Signs of Life in the USA, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, Bedford, 2006, pp. 80-86.
1. The source is a book by Paul Tillich entitled Nazism and the Third Reich. It was published by the Oxford University Press in 1982.
2. The source is a magazine article by Liza Featherstone entitled “Feminism at the Polls.” It appears on pages 35 through 41 of Dissent. The article is in volume 63, issue number 3, which was published in 2016.
3. The source is a magazine article entitled “Is Ending Segregation the Key to Ending Poverty?” first published in the February, 2015 issue of The Atlantic. You accessed the online version of the article on May 5, 2015. It was written by Alana Semuels. The URL is: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/is-ending-segregation-the-key-to-ending-poverty/385002/.
4. The source is a newspaper editorial published in the Los Angeles Times. The editorial appeared on page A7 and was originally published on November 24th, 2002. You read the article on April 23rd, 2013. You found the article using MasterFILE Premiere, an EBSCO electronic database. The title of the article is “Urban Renewal and Homelessness.”
5. The source is an essay by Jeffrey Plumber entitled “Whitman and the Homoerotic Gaze.” The essay is one of several essays by different authors in an anthology entitled Whitman: American Bard. The essay appears on pages 75 through 98 of the book. The editor is Joe Levine. The book was published in 1992 by Harvard University Press.
6. The source is from an online website called Perspectives in American Literature. The author is Paul Ostentowski. The article is titled “Writers of the American Renaissance.” This information was posted on October 15, 2005, and you accessed this information on August 27, 2009. The website address is: www.csustan.edu/english/ostentowski/pal/amer-ren.html.
7. The source is a newspaper article entitled “Opiate Addiction on the Rise.” The article originally appeared in the New York Times on September 12th, 1998, on page B17. You found this source on May 5, 2007 using Newspaper Source, an EBSCO electronic database. The author of the article is Samantha Borchard.
8. Your source is an essay published in a scholarly journal called The Journal of Popular Culture. The essay, by Henry McPherson, is entitled “The Cultural Politics of the Superhero.” It appeared in volume 28, issue number 4, which was published in 2012. The essay is found on pages 221 through 248. You found this source on April 8, 2014 using Academic Search Complete, an EBSCO electronic database.
9. The source is radio interview with Katherine Newman, author of a book about vocational training. The interview appeared on the radio show Think, which is broadcast by KERA in Dallas, Texas. You accessed the podcast, called “Reskilling America,” online on September 4, 2016 at this address: http://think.kera.org/2016/08/31/reskilling-america on. The podcast was posted on August 31, 2016.
10. The source is a review of the film Batman Forever, which was directed by Joel Schumacher. The title of the review is “Come Back to the Batmobile, Robin Honey.” The review appeared on pages 55 and 56. It was published in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review in volume 35, issue number 4 in 1995. The author is Michael Zam.