Homework Assignment

MLA Format Review

Instructions: For each example, provide a complete and accurate citation in MLA format. Your responses should be typed. Remember to double space and to indent the second and subsequent line of each entry.

1. A translated book

Title: The Writing of the Disaster

Author: Maurice Blanchot

Translator: Ann Smock

City of publication: Lincoln

Publication company: University of Nebraska Press

Publication date: 1986

2. A short story in an anthology

Short story title: Witness for the Prosecution

Anthology title: Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories

Author of story: Agatha Christie

Editor of anthology: James H. Pickering

Page range of story: 221-235

Publication company: Prentice Hall

City of publication: Englewood Cliffs

Publication date: 1995

3. An article in a journal

Journal title: Polin

Article title: Holocaust Memorialization In Ukraine

Author: Rebecca L. Golbert

Page range of article: 222-243

Volume: 20

Date: 2008

4. A journal article in an online database

Article author: Mike Marais

Article title: J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and the Task of the Imagination

Page range of article: 75-93

Journal: Journal of Modern Literature

Volume: 29

Issue: 2

Publication date: 2006

Database: Project Muse

Access date: June 3rd, 2009

5. A book review in a newspaper

Author of review: Elizabeth Hand

Title of review: Cast Away

Book reviewed: The Leto Bundle

Author of reviewed book: Marina Warner

Newspaper: Washington Post

Date of review: May 19th, 2002

Edition: final edition

Page: T05

6. An article in a special issue of a journal

Article title: French Feminism in an International Frame

Article author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Title of journal: Yale French Studies

Volume: 62

Date: 1981

Title of special issue: Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts

Editors of special issue: Colette Gaudin, Mary Jean Green, Lynn Anthony Higgins, Marianne Hirsch, Vivian Kogan, Claudia Reeder and Nancy Vickers

Page range of article: 154-184

7. A reprint

Title: The Odyssey of Homer

Author: Homer

Translator: Richmond Lattimore

Publication company: Perennial Classics

City of publication: New York

Year in which this translation was originally published: 1967

Year of the reprint that you used: 1999

8. A book in a series

Title: Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence

Author: Emmanuel Levinas

Series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Texts

Translator: Alphonso Lingis

Publication company: Martinus Nijhoff

City of publication: The Hague

Date: 1981