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The title of the book should be italicized, not in quotation marks.
In the book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion writes about the year between her husband's death and her daughter's death.
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FLOATING QUOTATION
Astyk and Newton discuss the contributing social factors of poverty and hunger, such as the rise of industrialization. "Around the world, industrial agriculture has consolidated land ownership into the hands of smaller and smaller populations" (Astyk and
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No/improper hanging indent hanging indent
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Fordham
Where did I go to school for undergrad?
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There should be no comma between the author's name and the page number
He claims that "masculinity is largely a 'homosocial' experience: performed for, and judged by, other men" (Kimmel, 47).
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Pronoun consistency, need to use square brackets to make it fit grammatically.
If one has extra money beyond what is needed to meet one's essential needs, "you shouldn't buy that new car, take that cruise, redecorate the house or get that pricey new suit," but should donate it instead (Singer 5).
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Improper stylization (quotation marks or italics)
Card #2
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Criminal Minds (and totally proud of it)
What is my favorite guilty pleasure TV show?
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If author is named in the sentence, does not need to be named in the citation
Kathy Freston claims that the meat industry is one of the primary causes of global warming and that "we are eating our planet to death" (Freston 2).
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Lacks parallelism, quotation does not fit grammatically with the rest of the sentence
People against legalizing an organ trade market worry that it will unfairly favor wealthy people in need of organs, exploit poor people in need of money, and "commodification of the body" ("Organ Transplantation").
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No periods where needed
Card #3
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Harwich/the Cape
Where am I from?
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Period needs to go OUTSIDE of parentheses
In "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution," Judith Butler claims that gender is a "stylized repetition of acts." (1)
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No need for ellipses before and after -- ONLY if taking out of middle
Bittman claims that "...people in this country (and a higher percentage of poor people) consume too many calories rather than too few..." to advocate for healthier cooking at home (1).
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Missing medium or date of access
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Older sister
I have one sibling. Is it an older sister, younger sister, older brother, or younger brother?
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More than THREE authors: just use FIRST author's name and "et al." -- (White et al. 12)
Sarah Waters' most recent novel reveals "an inextricable link between the physical destruction of London and the changing nature of the private lives of Londoners" (White, Hoy, Koval, and Walz 12).
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Comma splice, improper way to introduce a quotation.
Sullivan examines the evolutionary habit of generalizing in society in regard to hate crimes, "Human beings generalize all the time, ahead of time, about everyone and everything" (1).
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Author's names inverted/not inverted
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July
In what month is my birthday?
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