Transcript MLA Documentation Olympics

MLA
Documentation
Olympics!
Event #1: Dive In!
You have a book titled
Swimming and You,
written by Jamie
Johnson. It was published
in 1976 by Magnuson
Publishing in Chicago.
Write the entry for your
Works Cited page.
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Medium of Publication.
Johnson, Jamie. Swimming and You. Chicago:
Magnuson Publishing, 1976. Print.
Event #2: Talk to the Press
You attended a lecture given by Michael Phelps
at the Olympic Village in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada on January 14, 2010 about
“How to Handle the Press” – how would you
write the Works Cited entry for this event?
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Lecture.” Physical
Location. Date. Type of Lecture.
Phelps, Michael. “How to Handle the Press.”
Olympic Village, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 14 Jan
2010. Lecture.
Event #3: Fight Club
You have a magazine article published on July
24, 2010, called “Sting Like a Bee” by
Muhammed Ali and JC Clapp. It was published
in Boxing Weekly on pages 34-36. How would
you write a Works Cited entry?
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical
Day Month Year: pages. Medium of
publication.
Ali, Muhammed and JC Clapp. “Sting Like a
Bee.” Boxing Weekly 24 July 2010: 34-36.
Print.
Event #4: Axel Rose
According to Yamaguchi, “figure
skating is the hardest sport there is.”
If the above sentence appeared in your
paper, how would you insert the
parenthetical citation? The book that the
quote came from was On Thin Ice (2004)
by Kristi Yamaguchi, page 12. Write out
the entire sentence for your answer.
According to Yamaguchi, “figure skating is the
hardest sport there is” (12).
Since you already mentioned the author’s last name
in the sentence, you only need the page number
in the parenthesis. Note that the period goes on
the outside.
Event #5: Run Forest!
You watched a film called
Running Game directed
by Speedy Jones. It was
released by Paramount
in 1987. How would
you write the Works
Cited entry?
Director Name, dir. Title of Film. Production
Company, Year Released. Film.
Jones, Speedy, dir. Running Game. Paramount,
1987. Film.
Event #6: Surf’s Up!
For your Works Cited page, you need to create
an entry for an article, “Surfing in America”
that was written by Stoner McClive, Dude
Reefer, Mamby Smith, and Sami Jones. It was
published on August 23, 2009 on the Surfing
Times website. You accessed the site on
September 3, 2010.
Author(s) name. “Title of Article or Entry.” Name of
Site. Name of sponsoring organization or publisher (if
not listed put np), date of resource creation (if not
listed put nd). Medium of publication. Date of access.
McClive, Stoner, et. al. “Surfing in America.” Surfing
Times. np. 23 Aug 2009. Web. 2 Sept 2010.