Take-Home Final Exam

M E M O R A N D U M

From:               Prof. Snyder

To:                    English 1200-010 Students

Date:                Dec. 8, 2004

Subject:           Take Home Final Exam

Situation: You have written a paper on “The Shoelace in History,” and you have made use of the following sources. Compile your list of Works Cited, paying close attention to proper MLA style.

As a first step, circle a word in each of the following items that would begin the listing. Second, order the entire entries alphabetically. Third, put each listing into proper MLA form. (Warning: Some listings contain irrelevant information that you will not include in your Works Cited list.) Finally, prepare the finished list and submit it as your final exam.

1. The book Sandals in Greece and Rome was written by Sally Parish and published in 1997 by Wapiti Press in Omaha.

2. You found Walter Kelly’s article “Shoelaces” on page 36 of volume 12 of the 1994 edition of Encyclopedia of Haberdashery, published in New York by the Buster Green Company.

3. During World War II, Fiona Quinn wrote Knit Your Own Shoelaces as part of the Self-Reliance Series printed in Modesto, California, in 1942 by Victory Press.

4. On page 36 of its July 23, 1977, edition, Time magazine published “Earth Shoes Unearthed in Inca Ruins.” No author is given.

5. Two days ago, using the Internet, you consulted an online book by Imelda Markoz, Never Too Many Shoes. Two years ago, it had appeared in print, published by Converse Press in Wichita. You found the book at the address http://www.shoebooks.umanila.edu.

6. Constance Jowett translated a book by Max Philador and Elisaveta Krutsch, Shoelaces in Africa and the Far East 1800—1914. It was published in 1999 by Vanitas Publishers, Inc. Cities listed on the title page for Vanitas are Fort Worth, Texas; Chicago; Amsterdam; and Sydney, Australia.

7. On January 5 of this year Louise K. Frobisher wrote you a letter about her father’s shoelace research.

8. You found volume 3 of Fiona Quinn’s six-volume work of 1950: The Shoe in the English-Speaking World, published by S. T. Bruin & Sons of Boston.

9. On pages 711 and 712 of volume 1 7 of the Indiana Journal of Podiatry (November 1974) appears an essay, “Solving the Loose Shoe Problem” by Earl Q. Butz.

10. Leon Frobisher, Werner Festschrift, Ella Fitsky, and Ian McCrimmer published the twelfth edition of Shoemaking with a Purpose in 1996. The publisher, Hooton-Muffin of Boston, has published editions of the book since 1939.

11. The Society of Legwear Manufacturers wrote a book, Laces, Gaiters, and Spats, in 1901. Provolone Liederkranz Publishers, Ltd., of Toronto reprinted it in 1955.

12. Mr. 0. Fecteau and Ms. Mary Facenda edited a 1993 anthology, An Ethnography of Footwear, published in New Orleans by Big Muddy Publications. You found an article on pages 70-81, “Footloose and Sandal-Free,” by J. R. R. Frodobaggins.

13. Norman Zimmer thoroughly explores “The Shoelace Motif in Finno-Latvian Sonnet Sequences” in the Fall 1993 edition (volume 43), pages 202 through 295, of a scholarly journal called PMLA.

14. Theodore and Louisa Mae Quinn edited a book written by their mother, Fiona Quinn, shortly before her death. The book, Old Laces and Arsenic is published by Capra Press of Los Angeles. Copyright dates given are 1947, 1952, and 1953.

15. In the February 4, 1968, Hibbing Herald newspaper, the article “Lace, Lady, Lace” appeared under Robert Dylan’s byline. A week ago today, you printed out a copy of the article online in the MasterFile Premier database by using the EB SCOhost search engine. EBSCOhost’s homepage is http://www.epnet.dome/ehost/.

16. You draw on information from a television exposé, “The Shoelace Coverup,” which appeared last Sunday on the CBS show 60 Minutes. Leslie Stahl is the narrator.

17. Dog’s Life is a monthly magazine published in Atlanta. In volume 16, number 3, of that publication (whose date is August 2000), Walter Kelly’s article “Little Laces for Little People” appeared. It began on pages 32 to 37 and continued on pages 188 and 189. You found it using the ProQuest reference service (homepage: http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/ proquest/).

18. You used the World Wide Web to read an article, “Tasteless Laces” by M. R. Blackwell. It appeared this year in the January issue of Cyberlace, which calls itself “the e-zine for the well shod.” The address of the article is http://www.knotco.edu/cyberlace/notaste.html.

This take-home exam is due at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004.

Created Nov. 17, 2004 Updated Dec. 13, 2004