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EXERCISE MLA 2-3
Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
To read about avoid-
ing plagiarism, see MLA-2 in A Writer’s Reference, Sixth Edition.
Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each
student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student sample is plagiarized,
write “plagiarized”; if the sample is acceptable, write “OK.”
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Apart from the fact that music accounts for much of the power of Hindi movies, creating a
heightened mood that dialogue can rarely achieve, the film song spreads out from cinema to permeate many other areas of Indian society. Even before the advent of cheap audiocassettes, in the
days when record players were rare and expensive, film songs achieved far -reaching popularity
through street singers and wedding bands, which often played film hits rather than folk or traditional tunes. And the songs, with their inventive Hindi/Urdu lyrics (often written by celebrated
poets), have long been a bonding force in the Indian diaspora, re-creating a familiar world of images
and emotions and linking millions of people to their homeland.
From Kabir, Nasreen Munni. “Playback Time: A Brief History of Bollywood ‘Film Songs.’” Film
Comment May-June 2002: 41-43. Print. The source passage is from page 41.
1. In India, film music creates a heightened mood that accounts for a great deal of the power
of Hindi movies, writes Nasreen Munni Kabir (41).
2. Nasreen Munni Kabir argues that the film songs disseminate from the movies to pervade
several other aspects of Indian life (41).
3. Nasreen Munni Kabir notes that the songs in Hindi movies became widely popular even
when few Indians owned recordings (41).
4. As Nasreen Munni Kabir explains, Hindi film songs managed to reach a broad audience
“before the advent of cheap audiocassettes, in the days when record players were rare and
expensive” (41).
5. Street singers and wedding performers helped film songs achieve a far-reaching popularity, according to Nasreen Munni Kabir (41).
6. Nasreen Munni Kabir points out that Hindi film songs not only contribute significantly to
the effectiveness of the films in which they appear but also attract a worldwide audience of
Indians who use them to reconnect to their roots and their community (41).
7. In Hindi films, the songs have inventive Hindi/Urdu lyrics that are often written by celebrated poets.
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)
MLA 2-3 / Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
8. According to Nasreen Munni Kabir, music in Hindi films pervades the culture both in
India and abroad as it presents “a familiar world of images and emotions” (41).
9. Hindi film songs have long re-created a familiar world of images and emotions to link
millions of Indians to their homeland.
10. Nasreen Munni Kabir believes that the beloved songs in Indian films have been “a bonding
force in the Indian diaspora” (41).
MLA 2-3 / Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
Hacker, Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany A Writer’s
Reference, 6th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2009)