Writing Works-Cited Entries

EXERCISE 56.1

Writing works-cited entries

Prepare works-cited entries from the following information. Follow the models of the MLA Handbook given in this chapter unless your instructor specifies a different style. For titles, use underlining (as here) unless your instructor requests italics. Arrange the finished entries in alphabetical order. (Do not number entries in a list of works cited.) Answers to the starred items appear at the end of the

book.

*1. A journal article titled “Networking the Classroom” by Christopher Conte. The article appears in volume 5 of CQ Researcher, a journal that pages issues continuously throughout each annual volume. Volume 5 is dated 1999. The article runs from page 923 to page 943.

*2. A magazine article on CD-ROM that is also available in print. The author is Max Frankel. The title is “The Moon, This Time Around.” The article appears in the May 5, 1996, issue of the New York Times Magazine, a weekly magazine, and starts on page 40. You consulted the article on the CD-ROM titled New

York Times Ondisc, released by UMI-ProQuest in November 1996.

*3. A government document you consulted on March 12, 2004, over the Internet. The author is the National Center for Education Statistics, an agency within the United States Department of Education. The title of the document is Internet Access in Public Schools. It was published October 6, 2002, and can be

accessed at

*4. A book called Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds—For Better and Worse, written by Jane M. Healy and published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster in New York.

5. An article in the October 9, 2001, issue of the magazine The Nation titled “The Threat to the Net.” The article is by Jeff Chester and appears on pages 6 to 7 of the magazine. You found it through Polk Library at Southeast State University on

March 3, 2004, using the database Expanded Academic ASAP from the service InfoTrac. The home page address for the database is

6. A pamphlet titled Equity on the Information Superhighway: Problems and Possibilities, with no named author. It was published in 2002 by the ALA in Chicago.

7. An article titled “Disparities along the Information Age Career Path” on a Web site titled Digital Divide Network at the address The Web site is sponsored by the Benton Foundation. The article is by Kade Twist and is dated 2002. You found it on March 3, 2004.

8. An e-mail interview you conducted with Mary McArthur on March 20, 2004.