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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD XHTML plus AWML 2.2//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/xhtml-awml.mod"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title> Abiword HTML Document </title> </head> <body> <div> <p style="text-align:center"> MLA EXERCISE II </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">For the second exercise in MLA, you are provided (below) with a total of five references to be included on a properly formatted Works Cited page. As noted in your text and on the Purdue OWL website, “the 8</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:super">th</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Edition of MLA</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">handbook highlights principles over prescriptive practices. Essentially, a writer will need to take note of primary elements in every source, such as author, title, etc. and then assort them in a general format. Thus, by using this methodology, a writer will be able to cite any source regardless of whether it’s included in this list” (Purdue OWL).</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">This means that students no longer have to constantly search through lists of examples in the handbook to locate the most appropriate entry and then mimic that entry. This is undoubtedly how several of you were taught to construct Works Cited pages.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The process now is much simpler. As you locate sources, you should collect as much information from the chart below as possible about each source. When it is time to construct a Works Cited entry for the source, simply follow the sequence and the punctuation listed on the chart to compose the entry.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> <img style="width:70.6mm; height:102.0mm" src="426MLAEXERCISEIIsecondone.docx.txt_files/rId5.png" title="" alt="" align="" /></p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> So, this is the format that you will follow for each entry: </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p style="margin-left:36.000000pt;text-indent:-36.000000pt"> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Author. "Title." </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Title of container (self-contained if book)</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">, Other contributors (translators or editors), Version (edition), Number (vol. and/or no.), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (pages, paragraphs and/or URL, DOI or permalink). </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">2</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:super;color:#333333;background:#ffffff">nd</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff"> container’s title</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location, Date of Access (if applicable).</span> </p> <p style="text-indent:-36.000000pt"> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">To complete MLA Exercise II, take the information for the following five sources and construct a Works Cited page. You can find directions for page formatting, margins, etc., in your textbook or on the Purdue OWL. The final product that you submit to me will simply be the finished Works Cited.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">SOURCE #1:</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Your first source is a textbook titled</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Modern Biology</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">, published by Simon and Schuster in 2017. It’s the first edition of the book, and the two authors credited are Karen Jones and Cynthia Norwich. The book is 272 pages long, and you used a quotation from chapter three on page 56.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">SOURCE #2</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">This source is an ebook entitled</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Biology for the College Classroom</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff"> that you purchased and downloaded to your laptop for a biology class. The author is Charles Stiglett, and the book was published by the American Biological Association. It is a second edition. The first edition was printed in 2009 and the second edition was published in 2019. You accessed the book online this morning to find the quote you are using.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">SOURCE #3</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">The third source is an article from the Website</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">WebMD</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">. It is an article titled “The Biological Assault on Diabetics,” and there is no author listed on the Website. You found the article and cut-and-pasted a long quotation yesterday morning from the URL www.webmd.com/biology/diabetes</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">SOURCE #4</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">This source was an article taken from a scholarly journal you accessed through MSU’s library yesterday. The author of the article was Shelia Noonan. Her article, “Biology and the Virus” was published in</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Modern Microbiology Review</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">. It was published in the first quarter (Jan-Mar) of 2018.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff"> SOURCE #5</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">The final source for your Works Cited came from a website,</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">Biology in Our Times</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#333333;background:#ffffff">. You did not quote or even paraphrase the website, but you used an idea you got from the website in your essay. The essay did not list an author or a title other than the name of the website. You found it at www.biotimes.org</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-indent:-36.000000pt"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> <p awml:style="List Paragraph"> </p> </div> </body></html> ">
