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Which absolutely necessary component has been
omitted from this bibliographic entry for a web resource? "Frost's Use of
Irony." The Robert Frost Home Page. . |
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the date of composition |
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the author |
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all necessary components are included |
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the date of access |
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Which of the following is NOT a proper principle
of MLA form for a bibliographic citation of an essay accessed online which is also
available in print? |
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No information about the print publication need be included. |
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The date of publication as well as the date of access are included in the entry. |
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For a publication accessed through the database of an online service like ProQuest,
only the base homepage address of the service is given. |
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The URL or web address of the essay is given in angle brackets. |
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| 3. |
If you want to use a quote attributed to Ernest
Hemingway that you find on page 32 of Thomas Brown's The War Novel, which of the
following would be the appropriate parenthetical citation? |
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(Hemingway, Brown 32) |
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(qtd. in Brown 32) |
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(Brown, 32) |
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(Hemingway 32) |
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Which of the following is not a principle of
proper MLA format for notes referring to an online or CDROM source? |
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The keyword of the citation is the first word of the bibliographic citation. |
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No page numbers are included in the parenthetical note, only the keyword. |
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To determine the page numbers for the citation, the document is first printed and then
the proper page noted. |
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Notes to online or CDROM sources are placed in the same locations as those for print
sources. |
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| 5. |
Based upon the following bibliographic citation,
which of the following is NOT true: Greer. Germaine. "Conrad's ‘Whited
Sepulchre.'" Nineteenth Century Fiction 14 (1992): 55-78. Rpt. in Cummins
231-45. |
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Each issue of Nineteenth Century Fiction begins with page one. |
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All notes referring to this source should cover pages between 231 and 245. |
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This essay was originally published in Nineteenth Century Fiction but was found
reprinted in an anthology edited by someone named Cummins. |
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Another entry in the Works Cited list should begin with "Cummins" and
provide additional information on the anthology edited by this individual. |
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Select the proper bibliographic entry for an
article entitled "Shakespeare on Film" appearing in volume 231, issue 34 of Time
on July 19, 1999, pages 39-41. The article is signed by Jay Cocks. |
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Cocks, Jay. "Shakespeare on Film." Time 231.34 (1999): 39-41. |
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Cocks, Jay. "Shakespeare on Film." Time. 19 July 1999: 39-41. |
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Cocks, Jay. "Shakespeare on Film." Time July 19, 1999: 39-41. |
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Cocks, Jay. "Shakespeare on Film." Time 19 July 1999: 39-41. |
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Which one of the following could NOT be a
parenthetical note for a quotation from page 40 of the article in the preceding question?
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(40) |
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(Time 40) |
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(Cocks, "Shakespeare" 40) |
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(Cocks 40) |
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| 8. |
Which item below represents the proper MLA format
for a bibliographic entry referring to an essay by Jason Krebs entitled "Edith
Wharton" found on the Barnes and Noble Writers CyclopediaCDROM. The article
prints out to be 35 pages. The CDROM is copyrighted 1995 by Barnes and Noble but no other
information about it is available, and no previous publication information on the essay is
given. |
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Krebs, Jason. "Edith Wharton." Barnes and Noble Writers Cyclopedia.
CDROM. n.p.: Barnes and Noble, 1995. |
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Barnes and Noble Writers Cyclopedia. CDROM. n.p.: Barnes and Noble, 1995. |
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c)
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Krebs, Jason. "Edith Wharton." Barnes and Noble Writers Cyclopedia.
CDROM. n.p.: Barnes and Noble, 1995. 1-35. |
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d)
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Krebs, Jason. "Edith Wharton." Barnes and Noble Writers Cyclopedia.
n.p.: Barnes and Noble, 1995. |
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| 9. |
Which item below would be the proper parenthetical
citation for a passage from page 13 of the print out of the source in the previous item?
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(Barnes 13) |
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("Edith" 13) |
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(Krebs) |
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No citation is needed for paraphrased information. |
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| 10. |
Three essays included in a Works Cited list come
from the same anthology edited by Ray Gridley. The anthology contains 20 essays amounting
to 387 pages and is entitled Literature of the New West and was published by the
Kansas University Press based in Lawrence, KS, in 1987. Identify the proper form below for
the entry for this cross-referenced source. |
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Web Reference
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Gridley, Ray. Literature of the New West. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University
Press, 1987. |
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Gridley, Ray, ed. Literature of the New West. Lawrence, KS: Kansas UP, 1987. |
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c)
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Gridley, Ray, ed. Literature of the New West. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University
Press, 1987. |
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Gridley, Ray, ed. Literature of the New West. Lawrence, KS: Kansas UP, 1987.
396 pages. |
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