MLA WORKS CITED PAGE

Exercise Part II

 

 

Examine the example Works Cited page/s on pp. 331-332/381-392 of your FR Writer handbook to complete this worksheet.  Look through the section on works cited citations in the MLA section for clues. 

 

Purple Text clues on pp. 346-372

Black Text clues on pp. 348-380

1.)  Notice the entry for Tyre. 

 

1.)  Notice the entry for Pilkington. 

 

What type of media is being cited?

 

 

What is the name of the text?

 

 

What is the publication date?

 

 

 

 

2.)  Examine the 2nd entry for Brownell.

 

2.)  Examine the entry for Thompson.

 

What type of media is being cited?

 

 

What year was it published?

 

 

What is the title of the media?

 

 

Where was it produced?

 

 

 

 

3.)  Look at the entry for Flegal.

3.)  Look at the entry for Packer.

What does the 188 mean?

 

What does the 18 mean?

 

 

What do the numbers 1723-27 represent?

 

What do the numbers 641-47 represent?

 

 

What does et al. stand for?

Who are the authors?

 

 

4.)  What type of resource was Vijay Netaji?

 

4.)  Who was interviewed for this essay?

 


 

5.)  What is entitled “The Bitter Truth about  Fast Food?”

5.)  What is entitled “Easy Rider” (1st mention)?

What does weekend sec:13. represent?

 

What does 1969 represent?

 

Why is Guardian underlined?

 

Why is Easy Rider underlined?

 

 

 

6.)  Examine the Robinson entry.

Examine the “Annual Motorcycle Sales…” entry.

What is APA?

 

Why is Thomas Cooper Library mentioned?

 

Where is APA located?

 

What is 17 Mar. 2005?

 

 

7.)  Look at the Generation XL…” entry.

7.)  Look at the Kenney entry.

Why do the letters ed. appear after 3rd?

 

What is 1D?

 

Who published this item?

 

What is the name of this publication?

What type of news item is it?

 

What type of media is it?

 

 

8.) Examine the Works Cited format.

 

How are the left margins formatted?

 

 

How is the second line of each entry formatted?

 

 

How are the entries organized in relationship to one another?

 

 

How is the page paginated with regard to the preceding text?

 

 

 

 

9.) Should an author insert a hyphen when the URL address cited is going to span two lines?

 

 

 

10) Why should an author include a Works Cited page?