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MLA QUIZ
English 650
KEY
Directions: Put the information in each entry in proper bibliographical form, as if you were compiling a "Works Cited" page (bibliography) according to current MLA style.
Warning : all the information in the entries may not be needed. Write your answers on these sheets, below each scrambled entry.
1. A scholarly book by Veronica A. Makowsky, published in Princeton by Princeton university press entitled Caroline Gordon: A Biography. 273 pages. 1992 publication date.
Makowsky, Veronica A. Caroline Gordon: A Biography . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
2. An article in a scholarly journal published by Temple Univ Press in 1991. Author:
James M. Hutchisson. Title = "The Making of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt." Volume 24.
Number 1. Pages 24 to 31. Journal of Modern Literature .
Hutchisson, James M. “The Making of Sinclair Lewis’s
Babbitt
.”
Journal of Modern
Literature 24.1 (1991): 24-31.
3. A coauthored book: Jakobson, Roman, and Waugh, Linda R. The Sound Shape of
Language.
Indiana UP: Bloomington, 1979. pages= 330.
Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language.
Bloomington,
IN: Indiana UP, 1979.
4. Emily Toth, "In the Shadow of the First Biographer": a scholarly essay published in
SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL. Vol. 5, 1985: 40-51.
Toth, Emily. “In the Shadow of the First Biographer.”
Southern Literary Journal 5
(1985): 40-51.
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5. A book by Hugh Kenner: A Colder Eye: Modern Irish Writers , published in Oxford,
England, by Oxford University Press in 1982. 226 pp.
Kenner, Hugh. A Colder Eye: Modern Irish Writers.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.
6. An edition of a work of literature: Stephen Crane's " The Red Badge of Courage ".
First published 1895. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Published 1975 by the UP of Virginia,
1975. Charlottesville, Virginia.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage . 1895. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville,
VA: UP of Virginia, 1975.
7. A novel by Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale. Published in New York by
Doubleday in 1985.
Atwood, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale
. NY: Doubleday, 1985.
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