Self-Assessment on MLA-style Quoting and Paraphrasing:

How many of these can you get right?

 

(You’re welcome to consult a handbook to help you!)

 

  1. What is the difference between a direct quotation and a paraphrase?

 

 

  1. Do you need to cite text that you paraphrase, or is that just something you need to do for quotes?

 

 

  1. What is a block quote? When do you need one?

 

 

  1. What is an in-text citation? If it’s in MLA format, what should it look like?

 

 

  1. What should you do if you want to quote only part of a sentence, and, for the sake of honesty, you need to indicate to your reader that you took something out?

 

 

  1. What should you do to indicate to your reader that you’re changing a word or words within a quote, either for clarification or subject/verb consistency?

 

 

  1. Is the first word of a quotation always capitalized? Explain.

 

 

Correct the errors below:

 

  1. She said; “it’s not nearly as hot today as it was yesterday”.

 

 

  1. Although Monica said that pasta was “Her favorite food in the whole wide world”, I noticed that she didn’t eat any of the spaghetti Mike put on her plate.

 

 

  1. Barbara Ehrenreich describes her experience working full-time at a minimum wage job as “a test of the best possible case:  an unencumbered woman, smart and even strong, attempting to live more or less off the land.” (Ehrenreich p. 403).

 

 

  1. As we know from history, “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (King  pg 309).