MLA & Parenthetical Citation Practice

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Directions: Complete the following two tasks below.

  • Correctly create parenthetical citations for each of these quotations according to the MLA guidelines. They appear here inorder as they would in an essay. Use various ways of introducing each quotation. Check for mistakes. Then double-check.
  • Create a Works Cited page that correctly formats these sources.
  1. “In all the world, there is no greater poet at describing the world of the self better than Whitman.” (from Jim Harries’ “Whitman is the King of the Self” on page 17 of Vanity Fair Magazine, Vol 12, June 2010)

2. “Statistically, 25 out of every 30 young people take classes inhigh school that will affect their success in the working world.”(from Hank Sims’ book, Work and You, copyright 1995, on page 256, Boston, New Haven Publisher)

3. “Whatever she was, she was clearly not insane. She was agenius; eccentric, yes, but not insane. She simply saw theworld a bit differently than the rest of us do.” (fromEmily

Dickinson: Demure Barbarian, by Garrett Devons and HarryGreenwolf, Hearst Publishing, New York, 1996, on page 16)

4. “In the next 50 years most careers will be computer-related andwill require a working knowledge of several programs.” (from“Working Forever” by Melissa Haymaker on page 29 in TimeMagazine, September 15, 2011, Vol. 13)

5. “Poe was incredible writer in every way. Though he was terriblyaddicted to morphine at the time of most of his writing, it did notseem to adversely affect his work.” (from the website “EdgarAllan Poe,” at accessed on October 23, 2013.)

6. “Whatever happened to the great white whale of Melville’simagination? It still exists in every man’s heart: in the from ofobsession.” (from Karen Nelson’s “Allegorical? We Won’t Holdthat Against Them: A discussion of allegory in the works ofHerman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne,”TimeMagazine, online edition, viewed May 3, 1994)

7. “Shakespeare was a genius of wordplay. His puns could makeeven the bleakest moment in a play a genuinely hystericalincident.” (from Jim Stone and Harry Lein’s book The TragicalComical, Comical Tragical: A Criticism of Shakespeare’s MorePopular Plays, Amherst Publishing, Oxford, England, 1980,from page 183)

8. “We’re at a pinnacle of human achievement, and we are goingto eat this meal as civilized human beings.” (from ChuckPalahniuk’s Survivor found in Galileo, ebscohost, Journal of Literary Excellence, Vol 7, edited by Barry White, accessed March 23, 2012)

9. “It seems undeniable that what happens (that is, what is experienced, learned and suffered by a child) during the first 50,000 hours of life largely determines the academic success or failure during following the 14,000 hours of formal schooling.” (from “Poverty and Student Achievement: Are We Comparing the Wrong Groups?” Robert Bligh. May 9, 2013. The Washington Post online, accessed October 23, 2013.