Kelli McBride

ENG 1213: MLA Worksheet

Formatting the Works Cited Page

MLA style requires attention to detail, planning, and editing. It is not hard so much as it is precise. For this assignment, you willorganize information into a typed, MLAWorks Cited page. The information I give you is in no particular order. I also do not format the titles of essays or books; you must discover the proper way to format each source yourself based on MLA guidelines, available in your QA Compact on pp. 396-429. Each entry is 5 points and formatting the list in MLA style accounts for 25 points. Entries will be evaluated 1 point each for information on: author/editor, title, publication, date, and miscellaneous information specific to the type of citation (e.g., web address for internet sources). Submit your document via WebCT as an attachment no later than Monday, February 9th, at 7:00 pm.

  1. Two books by John Updike: In the beauty of the lilies (NY, Knopf Publishing, 1996), and Toward the end of time (NY, Knopf, 1997).
  2. Antioch Review (a journal that numbers pages by volume): Alan Cheuse, Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction; 1997, volume 55, pp. 277-91.
  3. Big cat fight, an article by Tony Perry in the Los Angeles Times newspaper. 3/8/96. Begins on page B1 and continues on a variety of different pages that are not consecutive.
  4. Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition) article called Sonata, 1997.
  5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a novelat the Online library of Literature ( Edited by Peter Galbavy and uploaded on April 22, 1998. Downloaded on January 23, 2009.
  6. Kevin Hansen’s book Cougar: the american lion published by Northland publishing company in Flagstaff Arizona in 1992.
  7. An article by Ian Baucom entitled Charting the Black Atlantic in the online journalPostmodern Culture volume 8 issue 1 uploaded February 3, 1998.
  8. Robert Kaplan’s article, History Moving Forth, in Atlantic Monthly; February 1997, beginning on page 21 but not paginated consecutively.
  9. The 117th edition of The Statistical Abstract of the United States from the US Bureau of the Census. 1997.
  10. The fourth edition of the Norton anthology of English literature (volume one of two volumes), edited by M. H. Abrahms, E. Talbot Donaldson, Hallett Smith, Robert M. Adams, Samuel Holt Monk, Lawrence Lipking, George H. Ford, and David Daiches. W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London, published first in 1962 with the 4 edition published in 1979.
  11. Troyka and Hesse’s QA compact handbook for our class.
  12. The Internet compendium: subject guides to humanities resources; a book by Louis Rosenfeld, Joseph Janes, and Martha Vander Holk. Printed by Neal publishing in New York City, NY (1995).
  13. A reference work,The Oxford essential world atlas; no author; Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
  14. The English Patient, a 1996 Miramax film directed by Anthony Minghella starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, and Kristin Scott Thomas.
  15. The essay, How to say nothing in 500 words, by Paul Roberts in our anthology, the Power of Language.

Revised Spring 2009