Name: _________________________
English 100, 101, 120: Parenthetical Citations Worksheet
Fill in the blank with the appropriate in-text/parenthetical citation using MLA style.
1.
Ray Bradbury wrote a book titled The Illustrated Man
from which you use work found on page 120.
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2.
Later in your paper, you quote a passage on page 313 in Bradbury’s book, and introduce the quote
like this: Bradbury, in The Illustrated Man
… __________________
3.
Bradbury co-authors a book titled Beyond Mars
with Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
You
quote material found on page 17.
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4.
In the sequel, Way Beyond Mars
, Bradbury co-authors the book with Aldous Huxley, George Orwell,
and E. M. Forster.
You paraphrase from page 151.
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5.
Way Beyond Mars
is a multi-volume opus (your Works Cited includes each volume), and you find
something witty on page 900 in volume three, and introduce the quote like this: Bradbury,
et al.
, in
Way Beyond Mars
… ____________________
6.
Your Works Cited includes multiple books written by Cormac McCarthy.
You decide to use a tenth,
The Road
, and reference a passage from page 19.
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7.
In addition to Ray Bradbury, you also quote from pages 45, 78 through 80, and 91, in John
Bradbury’s The Earthling Chronicles
.
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8.
Marge Piercy quotes Charlotte Perkins-Gilman in an essay she wrote for
The New Yorker
titled
“Women in and Out of Writing” and you can’t find the original source material, but you use the
Perkins-Gilman quote anyway, which appeared on page 5.
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9.
You quote from David Mitchell’s play Atlas Revisited
— a particularly pithy scene in Act I, Scene 39,
lines 7 through 90.
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10.
John Smith writes a blog for sci-fi lovers from which you quote excerpts.
However, the site
has no page numbers or other distinguishing features.
You introduce the passage like this:
Smith, on his blog Sci-Fi Fanboy
… ________________
