Question

Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation. The student is citing material from page 167 of the following essay in an anthology:

Franzen, Jonathan. "David Foster Wallace." Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, edited by Dave Eggers, Mariner Books, 2009, pp 167-71.

Answer 1

The answer is explained below.

Step-by-step explanation:

MLA is a guide to quote in academic papers. There are many others such as APA and Chicago. The source for this question is the following:

Franzen, Jonathan. "David Foster Wallace." Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, edited by Dave Eggers, Mariner Books, 2009, pp 167-71.

As it is an in-text quotation, the pattern is the following: Author page. So the correct answer is Franzen 167.

Answer 2

Franzen, Jonathan. "David Foster Wallace." Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, edited by Dave Eggers, Mariner Books, 2009, pp 167-71

Step-by-step explanation:

According to MLA, the student has to write the author's last name first and write the page or pages from which the cited material is taken from.