Writing Guide Team Scholarship Quiz 1 Study Guide

MLA

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What does MLA stand for?

__________and __________ allow readers to know which sources you consulted in writing your essay, so that they can either verify your interpretation of the sources or use them in their own scholarly work.

According to the MLA Formatting and Style Guide, you do not need to give sources for familiar proverbs, well-known quotations or __________.

According to MLA style, which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

• Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. (Wordsworth, p. 263)
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the: “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” (263)
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the, “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth, 1918, p. 263).

 

According to MLA style, which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

•  Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10) each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle.
• Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (Bible).
• Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. – New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10
• Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).

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To indicate short quotations (fewer than four typed lines of prose or three lines of verse) in your text, enclose the quotation within __________.

According to MLA style, when incorporating a quote in your paper, you must provide the author and specific page citation (in the case of verse, provide line numbers) in the text, and include a complete reference on the __________.

If you add a word or words in a quotation, you should put __________ around the words to indicate that they are not part of the original text.

If you omit a word or words from a quotation, you should indicate the deleted word or words by using __________.

According to MLA style, which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

•  Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184)?
• Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality?” (Foulkes 184).
• Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality”? – Foulkes 184
• Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality,” Foulkes 184?

APA

What does APA stand for?

APA is most commonly used to cite sources within the __________.

According to APA style, which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

•  She stated, (Students often had difficulty using APA style,) but she did not offer an explanation as to why (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
• She stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style,” but she did not offer an explanation as to why (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
• She stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style,” but she did not offer an explanation as to why. – Jones, 1998, p. 199
• She (Jones, 1998, p. 199) stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style,” but she did not offer an explanation as to why.

According to APA style, titles of longer works such as books, edited collections, movies, television series, documentaries, or albums should be __________.

According to APA style, titles of shorter works such as journal articles, articles from edited collections, television series episodes, and song titles should be __________.

According to APA style, all text on your references page should be __________ just like the rest of your essay.