Use the MLA Style Guide to learn to put the information you find in proper MLA form. Your set of answers does not have to be alphabetized as in a real Works Cited.

You must do all 15 questions. If you miss more than 5 you must turn in corrections of the ones missed along with your next assignment.

Part I
These 10 items present information about a given source in the form that you see in  the library's computer catalog. Sometimes only some of the information is relevant to a properly formatted entry. D. H. Hill library never presents information about a source in the form required by MLA, partly because MLA is only one of dozens of possible bibliographic formats, including APA, Chicago, Turabian, and others.

Your job is to reformat the information in proper MLA bibliographic style. Use the library computer catalog, and your feet and eyes in the library if you need to retrieve any further information to help you.

Part II
These 5 items are examples of the kind of bibliographic information (or misinformation!) you are most likely to see from student bibliographers. The majority of undergraduate students make errors in form on their entries.  Correct any errors by rewriting the entry in proper form.  If any entry is already correct, simply write "right" next to the number.

Do not discard these 15 questions: you will need them to do Assignment 4.

Create a single bibliographic entry, in proper MLA format, for each item. You need not alphabetize the answers. Just answer them in the order given.

1. This book
Author: Gibaldi, Joseph, 1942-
Title: MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing / Joseph
                  Gibaldi.
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
Edition: 2nd ed.

2 .This poem in an anthology
William B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” pp. 2106-7 in volume 2
Title: The Norton anthology of English literature /
M.H. Abrams, general editor ; Stephen Greenblatt, associate general editor.
Published: New York : Norton, c2000.
Edition: 7th ed.

3. This unpublished NCSU M.A. thesis
Author: Calton, Brooke.
Title: The fall from sky to earth / by Brooke Calton.
Published: 2001.
Material: 263 leaves ; 29 cm.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--North Carolina State University

4. This work in translation:
Author: Habermas, Jürgen.
Title: The structural transformation of the public sphere :  an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society /Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence.
Uniform Title: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1989.
Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought.  Material:
Notes: Translation of: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit.

5. This essay in a scholarly journal
Author: Denise Gigante
Title: The monster in the rainbow: Keats and the science of life
Source: PMLA volume 117, no. 3 2002
pages 433-448

6.  This story from a collection of fiction
“Car Crash While Hitchhiking” pages 3-12
Author: Johnson, Denis, 1949-
Title: Jesus' son : stories / by Denis Johnson.
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992.
Edition: 1st ed.

7. This book in a series
Author:  Morillo, John D.
Title: Uneasy feelings : literature, the passions, and class
from neoclassicism to romanticism / by John D.
Morillo.
Published: New York : AMS Press, c2001.
Series: AMS studies in the eighteenth century ;  no. 37

8.  This multivolume work, citing the complete work
Author:  Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Title: The letters of Samuel Johnson /edited by Bruce Redford.
Uniform Title: Correspondence
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992-
Edition:Hyde ed.
5 vols.

9. This film on video
Title:  The Birth of a nation [videorecording] / Epoch Producing Corporation.
Published: [Los Angeles, CA] : Landmark Laservision ;
Distributed by Republic Pictures Home Video,[1973], c1915.
Series: Silent classics
Material: 2 videodiscs (159 min.) : si., b&w with tints
Notes: Produced and directed by D.W. Griffith. A videodisc recording of the 1915 motion picture,
based on the novel, "The Clansman", by Thomas Dixon.

10. this magazine article
Author: Slouka, Mark
Title: "A year later: notes on America's intimations of mortality."
Source: Hapers, September 2002. Pages 35-43

Part II

These are real student examples take verbaim from their Works Cited pages.  If the entry is already correct, write "right" next to the number for it--you need not recopy any correct entry. However, if it is wrong, rewrite it in proper MLA format. If there isn't enough information to complete the entry correctly, say that next to the number.

1.
Baron, Denis.  "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies." Hawisher, G. E. & C. L. Self.  Passions, Pedagogies and the 21st Century Technology.  Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1999. Pp. 11-33.
 

2. (the original of this didn't supply inclusive pages, so I've made up an end page [32]for you to use; you don't need to track down the true inclusive pagination)

Zirkle, Chris "Using the Internet to Enhance Teacher Education." Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers. (May 2002), Vol. 77 Issue 5, pp. 24-32.
 

3.
Austen, Jane. Emma.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993.
 

4.
O'Connell, Brian.  "A Poor Grade for E-learning (Classroom Studies did Better"), 2002. Full Text Through ACC Communications INC. Accessed August 4th 2002.
 

5.
Cole, Michael, and Peg Griffin.  "New Technologies, Basic Skills, and the Underside of
    Education: What's to be Done?," Language, Literacy and Culture: Issues of Society  and
    Schooling.  Ed. Judith A. Langer.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pulbishing Co., 1987. 199-231.
 
 
 
 

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