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For each question below, choose the correct citation form from the list provided. You will receive immediate feedback.

1. Citation of an article from a UMUC Subscription Database:

Article title: Enhancing Quality in Online Learning: Scaffolding Planning and Design Through Proactive Evaluation in Distance Education
Author:
Rod Sims, Graeme Dobbs, and Tim Hand
From:
Distance Education Oct2002, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p.135
Database Title:
Academic Search Premier
Supplier: EBSCOHOST
Access date:
August 25, 2003

a. Sims, R., Dobbs, G., and Hand, T. (2002, October).
  "Enhancing Quality in Online Learning: Scaffolding,

Planning and Design through Proactive Evaluation."

Distance Education, vol. 23 (2): 135. Academic

Search Premier. EBSCOHOST. August 25, 2002.

<http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>

b. Sims, Rod, Dobbs, Graeme, and Hand, Tim.
 
"Enhancing Quality in Online Learning: Scaffolding,

Planning and Design through Proactive Evaluation."

Distance Education, vol. 23(2), 135. Academic

Search Premier. EBSCOHOST. UMUC's

Information and Library Services. 25 Aug.

2002 <http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>.

c. Sims, Rod, Graeme Dobbs, and Tim Hand. "Enhancing
 

Quality in Online Learning: Scaffolding, Planning

and Design through Proactive Evaluation."

Distance Education 23 (2002): 135. Academic

Search Premier. EBSCOHOST. UMUC's

Information and Library Services. 25 Aug. 2002

<http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>.

d. Sims, R., Dobbs, G; and Hand, T. (2002, October).
 


Enhancing quality in online learning: scaffolding,

planning and design through proactive evaluation.

Distance Education, vol. 23, issue 2, p.135.

Academic Search Premier. EBSCOHOST. UMUC's

Information and Library Services. August 25, 2002

<http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>.


2. Citation of an article from The Washington Post Web site

Article title: "America's Racial and Ethnic Divides: One Nation Indivisible: Is It History?"
Author: William Booth
From: The Washington Post, Sunday, February 22, 1998, p. A1.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/national/longterm/
meltingpot/melt0222.html
Access date: June 15, 2002

a. Booth, William (22 Feb.1998). America's racial and ethnic
 

divides: One nation indivisible: Is it history?

Washington Post, p. A1. Retrieved 15 June 2002, 

from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.html

b. Booth, William. "America's racial and ethnic
 


divides: One nation indivisible: Is it history?"

Washington Post Feb. 22, 1998: p. A1. June 15,

2002 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.html>.

c. Booth, W. (1998, Feb. 22). "America's Racial and Ethnic
 


Divides: One Nation Indivisible: Is It History?"

Washington Post 22 Feb. 1998: p. A1. Retrieved

June 15, 2002, from http://www.washingtonpost.

com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/

melt0222.html>.

d. Booth, William. "America's Racial and Ethnic
 


Divides: One Nation Indivisible: Is It History?"

Washington Post
22 Feb. 1998: A1. 15 June

2002 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.html>.


3. Citation of an article from a UMUC library database

Article title: Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Author: Donald A. Ringe
From:
American Literature, vol. 43, no. 4, January 1972, pp. 580-588 Database title: JSTOR
Date of access: November 17, 2003.

a. Ringe, D.A. "Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's
  The Awakening. American Literature, 43.4

(1972):pp. 580-588. JSTOR. UMUC's

Information and Library Services. 17 Nov. 2003

<http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>.

b. Ringe, Donald A. "Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's
 

The Awakening." American Literature 43 (1972):

580-88. JSTOR. UMUC's Information and

Library Services. 17 Nov. 2003 <http://www.

umuc.edu/library/database>.

c. Ringe, D. A. Romantic imagery in Kate Chopin's
 

The Awakening. American Literature 43(4): pp.

580-88. Retrieved November 17, 2003, from

JSTOR database.

d. Ringe, Donald A. "Romantic Imagery in Kate Chopin's
 


The Awakening
. American Literature 43 (Jan.

1972): pp. 580-88. JSTOR. Retrieved 17 November

2003 <http://www.umuc.edu/library/database>


4. Citation of a chapter in a print anthology

Chapter title: The Confederate as a Fighting Man
Author: David Donald
Pages: 176-189
Anthology Title: The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader
Editors: Michael Barton, Larry M. Logue
Publishing information: New York, New York University Press, 2002
Note: University Press will be abbreviated UP in the citation.

a. Donald, David. "The Confederate as a Fighting Man."
 


The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader
. Ed.

Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue. New York:

New York UP, 2002.175-189.

b. Donald, David. "The Confederate as a Fighting Man."
 

in The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader.

(pp. 175-189). Ed. Barton, Michael and Larry M.

Logue: New York: New York UP, 2002.

c. Donald, D. (2002). The Confederate as a fighting man.
 
The Civil War soldier: A historical reader (pp.

175-189). Ed. M. Barton & L.M. Logue.

New York: New York UP.

d. Donald, D. "The Confederate as a Fighting Man."

 

The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader.

New York: New York UP, 2002.

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