MLA In-text Citations Basic Questions! Quiz
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Questions and Answers
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Punctuate/edit the following sentence to reflect that it is a direct quote: Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School. Source: Smith, Angela. "Teen Drives Car Into High School." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9 Feb. 2010: A3. Print.
Explanation
For a direct quote, enclose the sentence in quotation marks and include the author last name and page number in parentheses. Place punctuation after the citation.Rate this question:
- 2.
Punctuate/edit the following sentence to reflect that it is a direct quote: Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School. Source: "Teen Drives Car Into High School, Down Hall." WTAE 9 Feb. 2010. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.
Explanation
Enclose the direct quote in quotation marks and cite the article title when there is no author. Because the title is long, shorten the title to something that still makes sense but does not take up a significant amount of space.Rate this question:
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Punctuate/edit the following sentence to reflect that it is a paraphrase: Police discover a high school senior crashed the family car through the local high school in Shoreline, WA. Source: "Teen Drives Car Into High School." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9 Feb. 2010: A3. Print.
Explanation
No quotation marks are needed; however, the article title and page number must be used as a citation. If there was an author name, that would be used in place of the article title.Rate this question:
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Punctuate/edit the following sentence to reflect that it is a direct quote: Smith states, Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School. Source: Smith, Angela. "Teen Drives Car Into High School." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9 Feb. 2010: A3. Print.
Explanation
The author's name is already presented in the sentence, so there is no need to place it at the end parenthetically. THe page number still must be included.Rate this question:
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Punctuate/edit the following sentence to reflect that it is a paraphrase: According to WTAE in the article "Teen Drives Car Into High School, Down Hall," Police discover a high school senior crashed the family car through the local high school in Shoreline, WA. Source: "Teen Drives Car Into High School, Down Hall." WTAE 9 Feb. 2010. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.
Explanation
Because the article title is already in the sentence (and already punctuated properly), there is no need to add anything. Web resources do not have page numbers, so the paraphrase is cited properly already.Rate this question:
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