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Works Cited Exercise

Each of the passages below contains information about a source that was used in a research paper. Read the passages and use the information provided in them to create a correctly formatted bibliographical entry. Once you have created all of bibliographical entries, put them in proper order to create a correctly formatted MLA style Works Cited page. Your finished product should look like an actual Works Cited page rather than a list of answers to an exercise. Look at page 141 of your text for an example of an MLA style Works Cited page.

 

  1. A book containing many chapters, each written by a different author, contains a chapter entitled Rumblings of Discontent, which was used in a student’s paper.

    2. M. K. Gandhi wrote this chapter. It is found on pages 18 through 21 of a book entitled World Without Violence. The editor of the book is Dr. Arun Gandhi. It was published in 1994 by a publishing company called Wiley Eastern Limited. The place it was published was New Delhi, India.

  2. A newspaper article, published on July 30, 2000, was titled, Activists for all causes Rally. It was found in the Arizona Republic. No author was listed, but the article was credited to the associated press. It appeared in section A, page 6.
  3. A student writer conducted an interview with a professor at Utah State University.

    4. The professor’s name was Rachael E. Goodman. The interview took place at 11:00 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2000. Rachel E. Goodman was the chair of the philosophy department.

  4. An article from the magazine, U.S. News and World Report, was titled Who’s Calling the Shots? The article was found on pages 37 and 38. The magazine was published on October 30, 2000. It was written by Kevin Whitelaw.
  5. An article was taken from CD-ROM edition of Encarta published in 1998 by Microsoft. The article was titled Gandhi, Mohandas K. No author was listed. The article included graphics.
  6. An article was found on the Internet on a personal web site. The title of the article is Our Best Hope. It was found at http://www.covrstne/gemskies.com on Sept. 19, 2000. No author was listed.
  7. The Literary Life and Other Curiosities is a book by Robert Hendrickson containing a collection of quotations. Penguin Books published the book in Middlesex, England. The copyright date is 1981. A quotation was used in a student paper from a section called Unusual Endings on page109.
  8. An article was taken from the magazine, The Wilson Quarterly, published in the winter of 2001. One article was written by Anthony Aveni and was titled Is Harmony at the Heart of Things? It appears on pages 54 through 65.
  9. A quotation was taken from the video tape, Empire of the Sun. It is a drama produced by Warner Brothers. It starred John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers and Christian Bale. It was directed by Steven Spielberg.
  10. A student writing a paper received an e-mail from his instructor and used a passage from the e-mail in his paper. The subject of the e-mail was Comments on the Gulf War. The e-mail was sent on Jan. 4, 1999. The instructor was Leonard J. Reynolds.