FINAL EXAM REVIEW DC 1302 Spring ’16/ Prof. Bennett
Topics of Review ■Qualities of Tragedy ■Citation Styles ■SOAPSTone
Greek Tragedy Ancient Athens ■Polytheism –many-god ■Worship processes –sacrifice/offering –libation –festival/celebrations ■Afterlife ■Competition: –kleos –timê –geras
Greek Tragedians All dates ~BCE ■Aeschylus: –Oresteia (~460) ■Sophocles: –Oedipus Rex (~430) ■Euripides: –Medea (~430) ■Homer: –Iliad and Odyssey ( ) ■Hebrew Texts: –1 Samuel – 2 Kings (final redaction )
Athenian Tragedy ■Process ■Purpose ■Conventions
Athenian Tragedy Process ■Dionysus –God of wine and crops ■Annual Festivals –January; Lenaea (Comedies; singles) –March; Great Dionysia (Tragedies; trilogies and satyrs) ■Funding, Attendance, Participation, Syncopation –Free; ~18,000; males; rhapsodes
Athenian Tragedy Purpose ■Moral and political education –Strong conflict between Greek heritage and the foundations of democracy ■Transgression ■Transcendence –Aristotle’s kartharsis
Athenian Tragedy Conventions (Aristotelian) ■katharsis ■Unities –place –time –action ■hamartia ■anagnorisis ■peripeteia
Topics of Review ■Qualities of Tragedy ■Citation Styles ■SOAPSTone
Citation Styles MLA format ■No cover page ■Header with writer’s last name and page # ■Heading with writer, professor, course, and date ■Double-spaced and 1” margins throughout ■Parenthetic in-text citations w/author last name and page # (page # if applicable) ■“Works Cited” Page
Citation Styles CMS format ■Cover page with no header or page #, title, writer, course, and date ■Header with page # ■Double-spaced and 1” margins throughout ■Single-spaced footnotes throughout, auto-formatted 12pt. font double-space in-between ■Additional notes are truncated; subsequent notes are abbreviated with “Ibid.” ■“Bibliography” Page
Citation Styles APA format ■Cover page with unique header, writer, date, and institution ■Header throughout with title and page # ■Abstract page ■Title repeated on first page of text (page 3) ■Double-spaced and 1” margins throughout ■Parenthetic in-text citations w/author last name, date of pub., and page # (page # if applicable) ■“References” Page
Citation Styles Documentation variations ■MLA ■CMS ■APA Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Medium. Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Site.com. Site Sponsor, Year. Medium. Date accessed. Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Journal title volume.issue (year): page #s. Database. Medium. Date accessed. Notes: “medium” is usually Print or Web. Exclude if no author is given. Use “n.d.” if no date is given. 1-3 authors, list all; 4 or more, used first and “et. al.” In-text citations are always (First word(s) of citation, page #).
Citation Styles Documentation variations ■MLA ■CMS ■APA Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Site.com. Date. URL. Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Journal title volume, no. issue (year): page #s. Date accessed. URL. Notes: Exclude if no author or date is given. 1-3 authors, list all; 4-10 authors, list first 7 in bibliography, but only first in note. In-text citations are always superscript with corresponding footnote. Bibliography page is not double-spaced.
Citation Styles Documentation variations ■MLA ■CMS ■APA Last name, First initial. (Date). Title. City, State: Publisher, Year. Last name, First initial. (Date). “Article Title.” Retrieved from Site.com. URL. Last name, First initial. (Date). “Article Title.” Journal title, volume.issue, page #s. Retrieved from URL. Notes: Exclude if no author. Use “(n.d.)” if no date is given. List all authors. In-text citations are always parenthetical with Author and Date. Article titles and webpage titles are sentence case; book, journal, and site titles are title case.
Final Exam Practice The following questions are the style that can be expected on the final.
Question #1 Identify the manual style and whether the following citations are correct or incorrect. Danhof, Clarence H. Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States, Cambridge: Harvard UP. Print. Demaree, A. L. The American Agricultural Press New York: Columbia UP, Print. "Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May Web.
Question #2 Identify the manual style and whether the following citations are correct or incorrect. Demaree, A. L. (1941). The American Agricultural Press New York, NY: Columbia UP. Hu, Y., Wood, J. F., Smith, V., & Westbrook, N. (2004). Friendships through IM: Examining the relationship between instant messaging and intimacy. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10, Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved from
Question #3 Identify the manual style and whether the following citations are correct or incorrect. "Illinois Governor Wants to 'Fumigate' State's Government.” CNN.com. Last modified January 30, Chilson, Peter. "The Border." In The Best American Travel Writing 2008, edited by Anthony Bourdain, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Peltonen, Kirsi, Noora Ellonen, and Karin Helweg-Larsen. “Parental Violence and Adolescent Mental Health.” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 19, no. 11 (2010): doi: /s
Question #4 Cite the following sources in all manual styles. 1) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing City: New York City Date: April 23, 2013 Author: Jonathan Gottschall Title: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human 2) equally-unlik-52899http:// equally-unlik-52899