CORNELL ASTRO 109 - MLA Citation Exercise

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Astro 1109 MLA Citation Exercise For each of the sources below, construct a Works Cited entry using MLA style format. Be sure to arrange the citation with correct punctuation. These examples are from the Ivy Tech Community College Citation Styles Exercise (http://www.ivytech.edu/library/RTT/citationstyles/exercise.htm, 8/2004) 1. Book Single Author: • Author: William Stanton • Title: Room for Criticism: An Essay • Place of Publication: Princeton, New Jersey • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Year: 1984 2. Book Multiple Authors: • Authors: Katherine M. Fortinash & Patricia A. Holoday-Worret • Title: Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans • Place of Publication: St. Louis, Missouri • Publisher: Mosby-Year Book • Year: 1995 3. Book With Editors: Editor: Russell Baker • Title: The Norton Book of Light Verse • Place of Publication: New York, New York • Publisher: Norton • Year: 1993 4. Journal Article: • Authors James H. Bradford & Paulette Core-Laurence • Title of Article: An Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Choreography of Dance • Journal: Computers and the Humanities • Volume & Issue: 29 • Date: 1995 • Pages: 233-240.5. EBSCOhost Article: • Author: Dane Lanken • Title: When the Earth Moves • EBSCOhost Information: Source: Canadian Geographic, Mar/Apr96, Vol. 116 Issue 2, p66, 8p, 5c. Item Number: 9603282175 Database: Academic Search FullTEXT Elite • Date Accessed: March 4, 1999 6. Web Citation: • Author: Andy Serwer • Title: One Family's Finances: How Bill Gates Invests His Money • Magazine: Fortune • Volume & Issue: Vol. 139, No. 5 • Date of Publication: March 15, 1999 • URL or Web Address: http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/ 1999/03/15/gat.html • Date of Access: March 4, 2000 Look at the following list of citations and mark the blank with a “C” if they are correct and an “I” if they are incorrect. These examples are from The Writing Center of Green River Community College (http://www.greenriver.edu/writingcenter/modules/MLA_Documentation.pdf). 1. Lewis was the fastest sprinter of the decade (Riley 52). ______ 2. Potera argues that Internet addiction affects thousands. 1 ______ 3. “Above the South Col, up in the Death Zone, survival is to no small degree a race against the clock” (227 Krakauer) ______ 4. Toufexis says that “substances swamping the newly smitten are chemical cousins of amphetamines” (103). ______ 5. This is what Pirsig calls an a priori motorcycle (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 5th Printing, Bantam Books, New York). ______ 6. The critic calls the movie a “disappointment” (Ansen, p. 76) ______7. Eminem is, in comparison, one of the most “over-hyped” (Wong 121) singers today. ______ 8. Newman argues that social networks are essential to finding a job (194) ______ 9. On page twenty-seven, the author states that too much competition early in life affects children. ______ 10. Participation rates show discrimination (Nelson). ______ Use this space to suggest corrections (or improvements) to the citations above: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Now it’s time for you to try creating your own citations. Using the information you have about citations, complete the citations inside of the parentheses. 1. This quote appears on page 16 of Dark Cosmos by Dan Hooper. “Despite their resistance, astronomers found themselves led to the conclusion that a large fraction of the Universe’s mass consists of unidentified, invisible matter” ( ). 2. This is the same quote by Hooper, but the sentence is different. Hooper points out that astronomers have now accepted that “a large fraction of the Universe’s mass consists of unidentified, invisible matter” ( ). 3. This is the same quote by Hooper, but this time the citation must be completed as if you are using more than one source from Hooper. Hooper points out that astronomers have now accepted that “a large fraction of the Universe’s mass consists of unidentified, invisible matter” ( ).Here are a few quotes to be used for the remainder of this exercise: “Long before the advent of modern chemistry and physics, the peoples of early civilizations made countless attempts at understanding the composition of the things around them. The ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles provided one of the most enduring of those ideas when he hypothesized that each type of matter in the Universe arises from a specific combination of four fundamental elements: air, earth, fire, and water. Empedocles, followed by Plato and a long list of others, thought that it would be impossible to change one pure element into another, but by melding together different quantities of these pure elements, any substance could be formed.” Dan Hooper, Dark Cosmos, p. 3 “The spectral lines emitted by an element could be used to determine it uniquely; the spectrum could be seen as the signature or identity card for any given element – unique and not transferable.” Pedro Ferreira, The State of the Universe, p. 40 “The same is more or less true for light. If a star emits light at a given frequency, the frequency that we observe depends on the velocity of that star relative to us. Using this relationship, we can measure the velocity of an individual star or galaxy.” Dan Hooper, Dark Cosmos, p. 14 Create five sentences WITH CITATIONS of your own using the quotations above: 1. 2. 3. 4.


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