One of the sources for a research paper is an excerpt from page 5 of a book by Roberta Daniles that was published in 2007.What is the correct way to cite this excerpt in the text of the paper if a direct quote is being used?

For a direct quotation, an MLA-style in-text citation gives the author’s last name and the page number in parentheses. The citation is therefore “(Daniles 5).” The publication year is not included in this format, and there is no comma between the author’s name and the page number.

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