MSFP 261
MEDIA WRITING TWO

TEST: CITATION and PARAPHRASE: 5% of Total mark 30 minutes

1. Please create a WORKS CITED page in MLA format for the materials below. Please remember that a Works Cited page should be alphabetical, by author’s last name. You may refer to the back of English Simplified, or any other relevant resource, for details on formatting. (3.5%)
Please note: this test is also temporarily available on the blog, so you may cut and paste.
When you have completed the test, please hand in the test pages and your completed pages to me.

Two books with single authors:
Author: Barak Obama
Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
City: New York
Date: 1995

Author: Anne Stevenson
Title: Bitter Fame: A Life of Syliva Plath
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1989


Two magazine articles:

Author: Ben Goertzel
Title of Article: Can Bots Feel Joy?
Magazine: h+ Magazine
Date: Fall 2009
Page numbers: 17-18

Author: Andrew Cash
Title of Article: Trouble in the Grove
Magazine: Now Magazine
Date: March 4-10
Volume and Issue: Issue 1467 Volume 29 Number 27
Page numbers: 17
Two online newspaper articles:

Author: Mark Bourrie
Title of Article: The serial killer they couldn't cure dies behind bars
Newspaper: The Toronto Star
Section:
Date: Tuesday March 9 2010
URL: http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/776986--the-serial-killer-they-couldn-t-cure-dies-behind-bars?bn=1

Author: Marina Strauss and Omar El Akkad
Title of Article: Booksellers take on Ottawa over Amazon's distribution plans
Newspaper: The Globe and Mail
Section: Report on Business
Date: Monday March 8 2010
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/booksellers-take-on-ottawa-over-amazons-distribution-plans/article1494306/


2. Please paraphrase the following argument; please make sure you attribute the ideas to their originator in the body of your own text: (1.5%)


“Prediction is at the core of Western civilization—the Oracle at Delphi was consulted about war and more for over a thousand years—and being able to predict the future is something that millions are paid to do, and that billions of people do every day. Prediction is the claim that a particular events will occur in the future, given in specific terms and falsifiable over time.
Some sports fans are as passionate about predicting the outcome of games and being known as better guessers, in part to gain reputation and in part to win money by betting tens of billions annually in office pools and casinos. Over a dozen publications are offered to players of Fantasy Football, itself a $5 billion a year business, to help them create and manage teams that use statistics generated by actual games to determine who wins the fantasy games. It is possible that this fall these fans could be the innovators and early adopters of a new and novel way to make predictions as entertainment important in a variety of fields that are more vital to real world concerns, such as prices, markets, wars and weather.”
Adapted from Alex Lightman, “Open Prediction: How Sports Fans Can Help Save the World.” h+ Magazine, Fall 2009.