Week 11 Quiz

The running draft quotes the fragment "the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students" from Beland and Murphy's article, page 61, without naming the authors in the sentence. Which in-text citation follows MLA's author-page form?

Select one.

• (Beland and Murphy, 61)
• (Beland and Murphy p. 61)
• (Beland and Murphy 61)
• (Beland and Murphy, p. 61)

The running draft cites Jeff Amy's news article on the PBS News website, a web page with no page numbers. The writer does not name Amy in the sentence. Which parenthetical citation is correct?

Select one.

• (Amy)
• (Amy 1), using the page number the browser shows
• (PBS News)
• (Amy, par. 3), counting the paragraphs on the screen

Which list gives the first four core elements of the MLA template in the ninth edition's order?

Select one.

• Author, Title of Container, Title of Source, Publisher
• Author, Title of Source, Title of Container, Contributor
• Title of Source, Author, Title of Container, Version
• Author, Title of Source, Publisher, Title of Container

In the entry Beland, Louis-Philippe, and Richard Murphy. "Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance." Labour Economics, vol. 41, 2016, pp. 61–76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.04.004. which core element is Labour Economics?

Select one.

• Title of Source
• Title of Container
• Publisher of the source
• Number

The running draft's list holds four entries that begin Amy; Beland and Murphy; Carr; Department for Education. Which heading and order follow MLA style?

Select one.

• References, with entries in the order the essay cites them
• Bibliography, with entries from newest to oldest
• Works Cited, with entries in the order the essay cites them
• Works Cited, with entries alphabetical by first element

Which of these are formatting conventions of an MLA paper and its list? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• One-inch margins on all sides
• A heading that reads References
• A running head of the writer's last name and the page number
• Entries listed from newest to oldest
• A half-inch hanging indent for each entry

True or false: under the matched-pair rule, a draft may cite the Department for Education's page as (GOV.UK), because GOV.UK is the site that holds the page.

True or false.

• True
• False

A citation generator returns this illustrative entry: Amy, Jeff. "A majority of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools." 21 May 2025, www.pbs.org/newshour/education/a-majority-of-u-s-states-now-have-laws-banning-or-regulating-cellphones-in-schools. Which check catches its faults, and what are they?

Select one.

• A format check against the template: the container is missing and the title is in sentence case.
• A facts check against the source: the author's name is misspelled and the year is wrong.
• No check: a citation generator's output follows the template.
• A format check against the template: the date should come before the title.

In the running draft's sentence "As Beland and Murphy argue, 'the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students' (61), and the students they identify are the ones a college most needs to reach," which part is the writer's own analysis?

Select one.

• As Beland and Murphy argue,
• the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students
• and the students they identify are the ones a college most needs to reach
• (61)

A writer paraphrases Beland and Murphy's finding in the writer's own words and own sentence structure. What does the sentence still need?

Select one.

• Nothing, because a paraphrase uses the writer's own words and structure
• Quotation marks around the whole paraphrase
• A works-cited entry only, with no in-text citation
• An in-text citation, because the idea is still theirs