44 MLA Activity
MLA Form, Citation, and Documentation—Practice Exercise
Name:_______________________________________________________________
Section 1
On the next page, you will find a document in which there are ten MLA format issues noted with callout boxes (the boxes that read “comment.”) In the box, please note briefly the nature of the error for each.
Section 2
On the second page, you will find three sources that this person used for their paper. Please create a Works Cited page in proper MLA format on a new page. Please note that you will not need all of the information that is provided.
Please consult the MLA Guide at The Owl at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/) to find the answers. Do not guess. This will be graded for accuracy.
John Doe
Professor Smith
ENG 111-05
February 2, 2016
The Negative Effects of Headphone Use
Have you ever asked a friend a question and gotten no response? Then you quickly realize that he or she is wearing earbuds and they have the volume up so loudly, that he cannot hear you at all? This probably happens to most of us on a regular basis. The question is, how bad is this for us? According to Virginia Heffernan’s article, Against Headphones, wearing earbuds can have detrimental effects on our hearing . Her article traces the beginning of headphones from 1910 to their present day use and popularity citing research and studies showing how bad headphone use is (“Against Headphones”) . I agree with Heffernan that headphone use is bad for our hearing and it also makes us antisocial.
One reason I agree with Heffernan that using headphones is a bad idea is because it is detrimental to our hearing. According to Heffernan, “a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association” showed that “The number of teenagers with hearing loss—from slight to severe—has jumped 33 percent since 1994” (Heffernan 1) . It is believed that that is due to teenagers listening to loud music through headphones. I have experienced something similar with my nieces and nephews who are teenagers now and they are constantly wearing headphones. Whenever I go home to visit, I can barely have a conversation with them because they always have in their ear buds. Then when they take them out, I have to constantly repeat myself because they cannot hear what I’m saying. According to Virginia, “One in five teenagers in America can’t hear rustles or whispers” as stated in the same study mentioned earlier. I believe this is based on how often I have to repeat myself when speaking to my nieces and nephews. Because of this, I think that headphones should not be worn for long periods of time or at high volumes.
Another reason I agree with Heffernan that using headphones is a bad idea is because they also make people less social. As stated in the article, “…the downside is plain, too: it’s antisocial” (Heffernan pg. 1 ). The author goes on to quote Llewellyn Hinkes Jones from The Atlantic as telling us that music