Critical Inquiry: Citations
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Using They Say, I Say, The St. Martin's Handbook, and citation resources on the web (many are linked to our webpage [follow the MLA Format Link]--i.e. "MLA Citation Format Handout," "Citation Machine," and "Purdue Online Writing Lab") and any useful MLA format website you find and writing handbooks in the ASC complete the following in correct MLA format.
1- Give the correct MLA bibliographic citation for the following:
Title of article: The unpromising future of writing centers
Appears on pages 20-34 Author of article: Terrance Riley
Source: The writing center journal Source Type: Journal
Volume: 15 Number 1
Date of source publication: Fall 1995
2- Introduce the following quote and add the correct in-text citation:
As soon as students realize that their lessons are about their meanings, then the entire psychological context of schools is different. Learning is no longer a contest between them and something outside them, whether the problem be a poem, a historical conclusion, a scientific theory, or anything else. There is, then, no need for the kinds of “motivation” found in the conventional trivia contest. There are few occasions for feelings of inadequacy, few threats to their sense of dignity, less reason to resist changing perceptions.
Title: Teaching as a subversive activity Authors: Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
Type: Book Date of publication: 1969
City of publication: New York Publisher: Dell
Page on which the quote appears: 97
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:
The Writer’s Resource Lab, located in LAB 209, hopes to welcome and help many more students in the upcoming year.
Title of article: Writer’s lab aims for wider audience Title of publication: Daily 49er
Author: Justine Liao Source type: online daily newspaper
Date of publication: Monday, April 8, 1996 Date of access: Tuesday, April 9, 1996
URL: http:www.dailly49.edu/4896/lab.html
5- Add any necessary information, if any, and correct any errors in the following quote:
“The worst thing about human beings in the twentieth century”, according to the essay Dogs are people too, “is that they don’t see dogs as members of the family anymore.”
Title of webpage: “Dogs are People Too”
Title of website: Dogs: Good Eaters or Just Good Eating
Address: http:///www.doggiesareyummy.com/
Path: Dogs in Society; Dogs and Families; Current Controversies
Date website last updated: June 22, 2002
Date accessed: October 22, 2003
6. Give the correct bibliographic citation for the source in number 5.
FOR NUMBERS 7, 8, AND 9 USE THIS EXCERPT FROM “RECLAIMING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS,” A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE BY FRANK SKYLONE APPEARING ON PAGE C3 IN THE 12/19/02 EDITION OF THE LAKEWOOD TIMES : It’s unfortunate that housing costs here have skyrocketed beyond the reach of young working families. It seems that we are destined to become another Sun City, Arizona, a community of wealthy retirees who drive up real estate prices and drive out the working class who actually give towns their character. Soon we’ll notice that our coffee shops have been replaced by Denny’s and the sporting goods stores have become golf shops. It’s a sad development, indeed.
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 word “here” in the first sentence to the phrase “in Lakewood.”
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.