Writing a reference list

Exercise 1

Write a list of references for an essay from the information given below.

 We don't know who wrote this newspaper article. It was in the Guardian newspaper

on Saturday November 6th this year. The title is: Divorced couple fight for frozen

embryos. It is on page 18.

 Someone called Andy Gillett wrote this web page, which is very useful, and he

worked at the University of Hertfordshire. It was published on May 6th this year. The

title is: Using English for Academic purposes. The URL is http://www.uefap.com/

and I copied some information from it for this exercise on Sunday November 7th at

11.00 at night.

 This was published in 1991 in Oxford and is a book by Professor John Sinclair. The

tritle of the book is: Corpus, concordance and collocation and the publisher was

Oxford University press.

 This small book is called: learning purpose and language use. It was written by Henry

George Widdowson and published in 1983. Like all his books it was published in

Oxford by Oxford University Press.

 This newspaper article was written by Jane Martinson in New York. The title of the

article is: Microsoft faces defining moment, and it was in the Guardian on page 10 on

Saturday November 6th, 1999.

 This book, like many dictionaries, does not say who wrote it. The title is: Collins

COBUILD English language dictionary and it was published in 1987 by

HarperCollins in London.
 An article in the journal: Applied linguistics. It was written in 1985 by E Bialystock

and M Sharwood-Smith. The title of the article is: Interlanguage is not a state of

mind: An evaluation of the construct for second-language acquisition. It was

published in volume 6 and it is from page 101 to page 117.

 An article in a collection of articles edited by John Lyons. The title of the article is:

the study of language acquisition, and it was written by Robin Campbell and Roger

Wales. It was on pages 242 to 260. The book of articles was called: new horizons in

linguistics and it was published in 1970 by Penguin in London.

 An article by Robert Cooper called: What do we learn when we learn a language? It

was published in 1970 in the journal TESOL Quarterly. It is on pages 303-314 in

volume 4.

 A very important book written in 1965 byW F Mackey. It was called: Language

teaching analysis. It was published in London by Longman.

 A book written by Noam Chomsky, who was professor of linguistics at MIT in

Cambridge Massachusetts. It was written in 1965 and the title of the book is: Aspects

of the theory of syntax. It was published by his own university.

 A book by Lyle F Bachman and Adrian S Palmer written in 1996. The title is:

Language testing in practice. It is published by Oxford University Press in Oxford.