Citation exercise

Time limit: 50 minutes

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(Type in your names above)
Directions
 Pair up with someone in class and work on
this exercise
 Take the drill, answer the questions and write
the citations.
 Past the questions in the same slide
 Save it and post it in the discussion board
“Citation Exercise”
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 Drill 1:
http://www.mountaindragon.com/merchant/co
mposition/mla/index.htm
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 Drill 2:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/writ
e/writesite/exercises/mla.aspx
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 What does APA stand for? Which disciplines
use it?
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 What does MLA stand for? Which disciplines
use it?
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 List 2 reasons why we should cite sources.
 The following slides have information on
scholarly sources. Present them as APA or
MLA citations and paste them in the same
slide
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 Book
 Author: Edward Cornish
 Title: Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
 City of Publication: Bethesda, Maryland
 Publisher: World Future Society
 Date: 2004
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 Encyclopedia Article
 Author: Jerry Stubben
 Article Title: Native Americans and Government Policy
 Encyclopedia Title: Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
 Editor: James Ciment
 City of Publication: Armonk, New York
 Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
 Date: 2006
 Volume: 5
 Pages: 1190-1203
 Number of volumes in set: 8
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 Magazine Article
 Author: Carmen Wong Ulrich
 Article Title: Stop Stressing Over Money-
Now!
 Magazine Title: Health
 Date: April 2006
 Pages: 126-128
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 Newspaper Article
 Author: James ‘ONeill
 Article Title: Richland is Given Award for
Quality Management
 Newspaper Title: Dallas Morning News
 Date: April 20, 2006
 Pages: 6B
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 Journal Article
 Author: Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Tilman
Esslinger, Theodor W. Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch
 Article Title: Quantum Phase Transition from a
Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold
Atoms
 Journal Title: Nature
 Date: January 3, 2002
 Volume: 415
 Issue: 6867
 Pages: 39-44
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 Magazine Article from an Electronic
Database
 Author: Anne McGrath
 Article Title: A New Read on Teen Literacy
 Magazine Title: U.S. News & World Report
 Date: February 28, 2005
 Pages: 68-70
 Database: Academic Search Premiere
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 Website
 Title of Page: Children’s Alliance: Child
Obesity
 Title of Site: Children’s Alliance
 Date of access: use today’s date
 URL (Web address):
http://www.childrensalliance.org/childfacts/chi
ldhood-obesity.cfm
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 Reprint Source
 (see http://ollie.dcccd.edu/library/Module4/M4-
V/examples.htm#Reprint%20Series)
 Author: Blair Gibb
 Article Title: Human Rights Are Not Necessarily Universal
 Book Title: Human Rights
 Editor: Laura K. Egendorf
 City of Publication: San Diego
 Publisher: Greenhaven
 Date: 2003
 Pages: 26-31
 Series Title: Opposing Viewpoints Series
 Original Article Title: Global Aspirations, Local Gospels
 Original Magazine Title: Whole Earth
 Original Date: Summer 1999
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 Correct error (if any):
 A major reason families succeeded in the
1950s was that "federal assistance programs
were much more generous and widespread
than they are today." (Coontz, p. 62).
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 Correct error (if any):
 According to Stephanie Coontz, in the 1950s
"federal assistance programs were much
more generous and widespread than they are
today" (Coontz, 62).
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 Correct error (if any):
 Stephanie Coontz argues that it was the
generosity and availability of federal aid
programs that made families seem so
successful and reliable in the 1950s.
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 Correct error (if any):
 Even politically conservative scholars admit
that we "should not hide from students that
Colombus and other European explorers
were often brutal" (Cheney, 267.)
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 Correct error (if any):
 Lynne Cheney is forced to admit that
students should learn that even European
explorers were "often brutal (Cheney 267)."
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 Correct error (if any):
 Lynne Cheney concedes that students must
be told the errors of our European past (p.
267).
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 Correct error (if any):
 In the online article "The Income Inequality
Debate" we are told that although the author
finds "the poverty of the very poor unlovely,
… [p]overty is a relative concept."
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 Cite a phone interview you did with the
director of the CDC, William (Bill) H. Gimson,
on December 10th, 2008 in MLA style.
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 Cite a phone interview you did with the
director of the CDC, William (Bill) H. Gimson,
on December 10th, 2008 in APA style.
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 This is an MLA citation. How will it be cited in
APA?
 King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from
Birmingham Jail.” The Norton Anthology of
African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York:
Norton, 1997. 1854 – 66.
The End!!!