MLA DIAGNOSTIC

The following citations have incorrect MLA format. Use the MLA documentation section in Writing (chapter 35) to correct the errors.

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Documentation Format

A book (scholarly or fictional)

INCORRECT: Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John. New York: Plume, 1983.   A short work or article in an anthology/collection INCORRECT: Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Fourth Edition. Volume 2. Edited by Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994. Pages 1621-1633. An article in a professional journal INCORRECT: Makowsky, Veronica. "'The Only Hard Part Was the Food'" Recipes for Self-Nurture in Kaye Gibbons's Novels." The Southern Quarterly:; A Journal of the Arts in the South. 1992 Winter-Spring, Volume 30. Section 2-3. Pages 103-112. An article in a popular magazine or periodical published monthly, weekly, or daily. INCORRECT: Japenga, Ann. "A Cure for Timesickness." Health. January-February 1999. Pages 94-97. A movie
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