English 1301
MLA Exercise #1
Works Cited List Exercise--MLA Style
Directions:
In items #1-10 below, I’ve given you information for a source, but that information is presented in a
jumbled order, as if it were taken as notes (see the Sample). You are to take the information provided
for each source and put it into the correct order to create a proper Works Cited citation in MLA
format.
TAKE NOTE:
Be sure to follow the new 8 th
edition of the MLA Handbook. The Purdue OWL provides a very
detailed and helpful guide to MLA format: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/
Newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals are often referred to as periodicals in reference
guides, such as the Purdue OWL.
For the items below in EBSCO databases, please use this generic URL: www.ebscohost.com
Sample:
The source is an essay entitled “The More Factor.” The author is Laurence Shames. The essay
appeared in a collection of essays entitled Signs of Life in the USA on pages 80 through 86. The
collection was published in 2006 by Bedford. The collection was edited by two people: Jack Solomon
and Sonia Maasik.
Works Cited:
Shames, Laurence. “The More Factor.” Signs of Life in the USA, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack
Solomon, Bedford, 2006, pp. 80-86.
1. The source is a book by Paul Tillich entitled Nazism and the Third Reich. It was published by the
Oxford University Press in 1982.
Tillich, Paul. Nazism and the Third Reich. Oxford University Press, 1982.
2. The source is a magazine article by Liza Featherstone entitled “Feminism at the Polls.” It appears
on pages 35 through 41 of Dissent. The article is in volume 63, issue number 3, which was
published in 2016.
Featherstone, Liza. "Feminism at the Polls." Dissent, vol. 63, no. 3, 2016, pp. 35-41.
3. The source is a magazine article entitled “Is Ending Segregation the Key to Ending Poverty?” first
published in the February 2015 issue of The Atlantic. You accessed the online version of the article
on May 5, 2015. It was written by Alana Semuels. The URL is:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/is-ending-segregation-the-key-to-ending-
