MLA Format Exercise
Using your Works Cited section of your FR Writer
handbook, pp. 345-373/341-394, for examples,
show how each of the following would appear on a Works Cited page. Notice that an index/directory for this
section of the handbook occurs on the divider between pages 336 & 337/328 & 330.
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Type of Media |
Information |
MLA Works Cited Format |
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Book |
Entering the Circle Olga Kharitidi, M.D. Harper Collins Publishers 1996 |
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Book in translation |
The Art of Letters: A Translation and Comparative Study Pantheon Books Trans. E.R. Hughes 1951 Page 95 |
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journal |
The Astrolabe 230:1 J.D. North Scientific American 1974 96-106 |
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News article |
“Women in Combat” December 6, 2006 A7 Benito Santos |
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online newspaper no author |
October 26, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/24/
October 25, 2006 U.N. envoy speaks out on |
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online journal article from a database |
Ebscohost June 9, 1997 Vol. 40, No. 6 A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing 610-617 http://links.jstor.org/feb79/crmiller College Hill Library February 1979 |
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government document |
Department of Human Rights and Labor Guantanamo Bay Report on Human Rights at GITMO Detention Camp 2003 1 May 2003 |
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website |
Surveys, Reports, and Other Documents http://www.mla.org//resources/documents Modern Language Association 29 May 2006 6 April 2005 |
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chapter in a book |
1991 Book authors: Capra, Fritjof and David Steindl-Rast “Criteria for a New Paradigm” Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality Harper Collins Chapter authors: Thomas Matus, Fritjof Capra, and David Steindl-Rast 81-144 |
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Film |
1976 All the president’s men Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam Warner Brothers and Wildwood Enterprises Director: Alan J. Pakula |
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