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EXERCISE MLA 4-3
MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources
To read about how to handle the elements of sources in MLA citations, see MLA-4b in A Writer’s
Reference, Sixth Edition.
Circle the letter of the correct answer for each question using information in the source
provided.
SOURCE: A Web site
1. Whom would you list as the author of this Web site in a works cited entry?
a. Shakespeare
b. Emory University
c. Harry Rusche
2. In your paper, you quote from the internal page “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” The update date on the internal page is 2003; assume that your date of access was
March 3, 2005. How would you cite that internal page of the site?
a. “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” Shakespeare’s World at Emory University.
2003. Web. 3 Mar. 2005. <http://shakespeare.emory.edu/introduction.cfm>.
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
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b. Rusche, Harry. “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” Shakespeare’s World at
Emory University. English Dept., Emory Coll., 2003. Web. 3 Mar. 2005.
c. “Shakespeare and the Players: Introduction.” Ed. Harry Rusche. Shakespeare’s World
at Emory University. English Dept., Emory Coll., 2003. Web. 3 Mar. 2005.
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
elements of sources
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
SOURCE: An article accessed through a database
3. How would you cite the publication information for the periodical in this database record?
a. Cross Currents 54.4 (Winter 2005): 125-37.
b. Cross Currents 54.4 (2005): 125-37.
c. Cross Currents 54.4 (2005): 125.
4. What information from this database record would you not need to cite in an MLA works
cited entry?
a. Boston Public Library
b. Expanded Academic ASAP
c. Matthew S. Schweber
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
elements of sources
SOURCE: A print book
[Title page]
[Copyright page]
5. How would you cite the place of publication for this book in an MLA works cited entry?
a. New York and London:
b. New York, NY:
c. New York:
6. How would you cite the publisher of this book in an MLA works cited entry?
a. Anchor Books
b. Anchor-Doubleday
c. Anchor
7. Which of the following dates, from the copyright page, would you include in your MLA
works cited entry?
a. 1991
b. 1992
c. 1991, 1992
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
elements of sources
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
SOURCE: An online advertisement
8. What information, not shown in this illustration, must you find to prepare a complete
works cited entry for this advertisement?
a. The sponsor of the site
b. The writer of the advertisement
c. The name of the article in which the advertisement appears
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
elements of sources
SOURCE: A work in an anthology
[Title page of anthology]
[First page of essay]
9. You have used the essay on the right from the anthology whose title page is on the left.
What information would come first in your MLA works cited entry?
a. Schor, Juliet B., and Douglas B. Holt
b. Baudrillard, Jean
c. “The Ideological Genesis of Needs”
10. What information shown on these two pages do you not need in an MLA works cited entry
for the essay?
a. Edited by Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt
b. New York
c. 1969
MLA 4-3 / MLA documentation: identifying
elements of sources
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)