Read the quote below from page 31 of The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
According to MLA guidelines, which is the correct way to cite this quote within the text of an essay?
A
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"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (Steinbeck 31).
B.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (The Winter of Our Discontent, 31).
C.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (John Steinbeck, 31).
D.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent 31).
A.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (Steinbeck 31).
According to MLA guidelines, the correct way to cite this quote within the text of an essay would be option A: "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (Steinbeck 31).
According to MLA guidelines, the correct way to cite this quote within the text of an essay would be option A:
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen" (Steinbeck 31).
To cite a quote from a book in MLA format, you should include the author's last name and the page number in parentheses immediately after the quote. In this case, the author is John Steinbeck and the page number is 31. So the correct citation would be (Steinbeck 31).