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Check Your Understanding: Exercises and Activities
1. Check your understanding of the American Psychological Association and
Modern Language Association guidelines for source citations in Appendix
A. Provide a correct source citation for each of the following hypothetical
sources, using both APA and MLA guidelines:
A book with one author named Jack Smith, titled College Life, published in
New York by University Press in 2005. How would your citation change if
Smith were the editor of the book? How would you list a second author, John
Q. Doe? How would you list a third author, Mary A. Smith?

An article titled Dorm Life in American Universities, by Peter Chu,
published in the scholarly journal Universities and Colleges, volume 31,
December 2005, pages 24–56.
A chapter by Jose Sanchez titled The Nine Lives Myth, appearing on pages
99–109 in the book Cat Stories, edited by Morris T. Katt, published by
Feline Press in San Francisco, California, in 2005.

An article in Canine Magazine titled Snoopy and Me, by Charlie Brown,
pages 56–57, on December 14, 2005, in volume 42. How would you list the
article if no author were named?

2. Worksheet for speech topic choice. One way to select an appropriate speech
topic is to begin with an inventory of your own interests and those of your
listeners as revealed by their self-introductions in class. Under each of the
following headings, list at least three things that are important to you and to
your audience.

My interests Audience interests

Hobbies

School

Work

Goals

Situational factors
Nature of assignment
Time available
List of three possible topics

3. How would you go about determining on what subject Arthur L. Schawlow
and Charles H. Townes are experts? (Hint: They won Nobel Prizes for their
discovery.) 193