MLA In-Text Citations Homework
Using what you learned from the MLA In-Text Citations lectures, complete the following exercises and submits to the dropbox.
Use #1 as an example and follow the same format!
1.) Some critics debate the existence of any real evidence that the world’s coral reefs are undergoing permanent damage
Rewrite the above sentence ONCE so that it meets ALL of the following stipulations:
Your source is a book with 3 authors: Bob White, Chance Keller, and Ashley Abbington. (Their names are listed in this order on the book’s title page.)
Your information is taken from pages 1-2 of their book
You have not yet mentioned these authors by name in your essay.
Correct Answers:
Bob White et. al debate the existence of any real evidence that the world’s coral reefs are undergoing permanent damage (1-2).
OR…
Some critics debate the existence of any real evidence that the world’s coral reefs are undergoing permanent damage (White et. al 1-2)
2.) Christopher Hitchens admits that after being water-boarded, he has “since woken up trying to push the bedcovers off my face.”
Rewrite the above sentence ONCE so that it meets ALL of the following stipulations:
You don’t know the author’s name, but you do know that the article is entitled “Believe Me, It’s Torture.”
You know that the quote is taken from page 690 of this article.
You’ve already mentioned the article by name in your essay.
You want to fix the quote up so that it makes sense as a sentence, even if the quotes were removed
3.) Jonathan Safran Foer argues that dog meat should be “seriously debated and considered” as a food option, but most Americans would rather give up meat altogether than resort to eating dog meat.
Rewrite the above sentence ONCE so that it meets ALL of the following stipulations:
You have already mentioned Jonathan Safran Foer by name in your essay
You know that his quote comes from page 665 of his article.
But, you don’t want to give him *all* the credit; the second half of the above sentence is your own idea.
You want to remove the words “debated and” from Foer’s quote, but you want to make sure your reader knows that something was removed from the quote.
4.) Dana Irving argues that the “greatest challenge environmentalists face is convincing the public that the environment is in danger in the first place.”
Rewrite the above sentence ONCE so that it meets ALL of the following stipulations:
This is the first time you’ll mention Dana Irving by name in your essay.
You actually found your quote by Dana Irving in another source: An online article titled “The Great Crisis: Saving Our Planet.” This article has no listed author and no page numbers.
You have already mentioned this article by its full title in your essay
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