ENGLISH 1121: COLLEGE WRITING AND CRITICAL READING
MLA BIBLIOGRAPHIC FORMAT
PRACTICE WORKSHEET
Your four formal papers in English 1121 require that you write an argument that is supported
by research. All of the researched works that you cite in your papers will appear on the Works
Cited page of these papers. Works Cited entries are important because they provide
documentation of your research, and they allow other researchers to expedite their own work
by checking into your sources. All of the research that you do in this class requires that you
use Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation format. The following exercises will
help you to correctly prepare the Works Cited sections of your papers.
Pretend that you are citing the following sources in your paper. Create entries for a Works
Cited page that contains all of the necessary information from these sources. As you reformat
these entries using MLA guidelines, remember to pay attention to alphabetizing, the order that
information is to be presented within an entry, the correct punctuation for bibliographic entries,
and the hanging (reverse) indentation. Your goal is to replicate a properly formatted Works
Cited page for a paper that is using the following sources.
Your work must be word-processed and submitted to the D2L Dropbox by the due date and
time on our class Schedule.
1. The article “Jesus Is a Brand of Jeans” in our Common Culture book.
2. The entire The Little Seagull Handbook book.
3. The advertising video lecture you watched for class. Here’s the bibliographic
information for you to sort through and order correctly:
Title of Speech:
The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women
Year of release:
2014
Sponsor:
Lafayette College
Program:
TEDx Talks
Distributor:
YouTube
Speaker:
Jean Kilbourne
4. The cover story from the January 28, 2016, print issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
5. The front-page headline story from the January 26, 2016, print edition of the
StarTribune newspaper.
6. The online article at the following link on blogger Joshua Becker’s website:
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/new-minimalist-blogs/.
7. The song “Locked Out of Heaven” on Bruno Mars’ Unorthodox Jukebox album.