1. Which of the following direct quotations is punctuated correctly?
A. My friend asked “when you go to the store can you pick up some coffee?”
B. My friend asked me to pick up some coffee when I go to the store.
C. “When you go to the store, can you pick up coffee” asked my friend.
D. “When you go to the store,” my friend said, “can you please pick up some coffee?”
2. Kotz, Deborah. “Five Ways to Boost Your Will Power.” The Boston Globe. 7 Nov. 2011.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health–wellness/2011/11/07/five–ways–boost–
willpower/fpgy7Lo599ofDi2IsbsewK/story.html
A. to describe how you feel about the article
B. to rewrite the original article
C. to use the writer’s exact words
D. to give an accurate and brief overview of the article, without any personal opinions
Work Cited:
3. Bryson, Bill. “Walking Around Sydney.” In a Sunburned Country. Broadway Books, 2000, pp. 61–63.
A.Remove the author’s name from either the signal phrase or parenthetical citation.
B.. Add a signal phrase.
C..Add an in–text or parenthetical citation.
D. Correct the punctuation.
4.To include the entire passage from “Five Ways to Boost Your Will Power” in your own essay, what should you do according to MLA
style?
Some tips for boosting willpower include:
Do something physically challenging. Adopt a new habit, such as brushing your teeth with the opposite hand or adjusting your posture
every 30 minutes, both of which have been validated in research. Or learn a new skill like rollerblading, Zumba, or ballroom dance.
Exercise every day, preferably outdoors. A 2010 review of 10 studies found that the biggest mood–boosting, stress–reducing effects of
exercise came from five–minute doses. Getting active outside provided an added bonus of increased willpower in some studies, she said,
possibly because being around nature reduced stress more than being indoors.
Work Cited:
Kotz, Deborah. “Five Ways to Boost Your Will Power.” The Boston Globe. 7 Nov. 2011. https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health–
wellness/2011/11/07/five–ways–boost–willpower/fpgy7Lo599ofDi2IsbsewK/story.html.
