Citation Quiz
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Use the MLA Citation Format Handout, the Purdue University OWL, the Citation Machine, and/or handbooks in the ASC and library to help you complete the following in correct MLA format.
1. Give the correct MLA bibliographic citation for the following:
Title of article: Maine youths clash with cops Date of publication: September 17, 2000
Appears on pages: 3-4 Author of article: none listed
Source: We dare to be free Source type: online weekly newspaper
Date Accessed: October 1, 2004 Web address: http://www.daretobefree.org
Path: Archives—September 17, 2000—Editorial
2. Introduce the follow quote and add the correct in-text citation (you don’t have to rewrite the entire quote; just indicate what you’d do and add whatever is necessary):
Where is the real world? What is reality? Is it within ourselves—in our minds, our consciousness? Is reality only what we perceive? Are our minds paramount, with no reality apart from our heads? No! The real world is out there—independent, autonomous, sovereign, not ruled by human awareness. The real Grizzly is not in our heads; she is in the Big Outside—rooting, snuffling, roaming, living, perceiving on her own. Wilderness is not merely an attitude of mind; it is greater, far greater, than ourselves and our perceptions of it. We do not create reality; reality creates us. It is not “I think, therefore I am;” it is “I am, therefore I think.”
Title: Confessions of an eco-warrior Quote appears on pages: 51-52
Type: Book City of publication: New York
Author: Dave Foreman Publisher: Harmony Books
Date of publication: 1991
3. Give the correct bibliographic citation for the source used in number 2.
4. Introduce the following quote, add the appropriate in-text citation, and give the correct bibliographic citation:
Women understand this transcendent quality better than men, which is why women are uniquely suited to lead in environmental matters—not just lead the doing, but the thinking.
Title: Truth vs. fact Pages: 23-26
Author: Paula DiPerna Name of source: Ms. Magazine
Type of source: magazine article found in database Date of publication: September/October 1991
ProQuest document ID: 265578763 Date accessed: August 13, 2003
URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqd&rft_val
5. Correct any errors in the following:
Murray Bookchin argues in Toward an Ecological Society that what our culture now refers to as “radical” is a mockery of the concept when compared to the more authentic “revolutionary opposition, social agitation, intellectual enlightenment, and popular insurgency” of the last 300 years (page 11).
Title: Toward an Ecological Society Publisher: Black Rose Books
Author: Murray Bookchin Place of publication: New York
Source type: book Publication year: 1980
6. Give the correct bibliographic citation for the source in number 5.
FOR NUMBERS 7, 8, AND 9 USE THIS EXCERPT FROM “HOW SMALL IS THEIR OCEAN,” A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE BY PETER C. BELLER APPEARING ON PAGE L14 IN THE EAST COAST LATE EDITION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 3, 2004 FOUND THROUGH PROQUEST ON OCTOBER 20, 2004. PROQUEST ID: 97864387 URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=9&did:
The coves, known to anglers and surfers as Brown's, Sewers, Kings and Driftwood Cove, are a few hundred yards west of Montauk Point. They have some of the best fishing -- and Sewers and Kings some of the best surfing -- anywhere on the Atlantic coast. But anglers don't want surfers spooking the fish, and surfers don't want to be snagged by fishhooks. The proximity of striped bass and clean-curling waves has led to conflict.
7. Correctly use a tag line, quotation marks, and a parenthetical citation to quote the above passage.
8. Rewrite what you wrote for #7, and use brackets to change the words “Montauk Point” in the first sentence to the word “here.”
9. Rewrite what you wrote for #8, and use ellipses to cut out the two middle sentences and join the first and last sentences.
10. Offer the correct bibliographic citation.