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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

Zora

neale

HurstonSlide2

Today’s class

Integrating Evidence

Introductions Activity

Peer Review Round One & Check-insWordiness strategiesSlide3

When evidence needs to be cited

Quotation

Paraphrase

Summary (esp. of article)Is it common knowledge?Did you know this information before starting your essay and research?

Even if you did know this information previously, would it be more convincing to cite an expert on this topic?Slide4

In-text citations

Prose Plays

Integrated just like

“quotes from short stories”– like this (Glaspell 45).

Articles or historical sources

Integrated just like

“quotes

from short

stories”–

like this

(

Mael

54)

.Slide5

Integrating evidence review

Quotes should be integrated into a sentence that you write, they cannot form their own independent sentences

Montagu argues that it is both unnatural and harmful for American males not to

cry. “The human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds

tears” (248).

This special ability…

Montagu argues that it is both unnatural and harmful for American males not to cry.

She explains that “the

human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds tears” (248).

This special ability…Slide6

Is it fully integrated?

Quotes should still make grammatical sense in your essay if the quotation marks are

removed

Montagu argues that it is both unnatural and harmful for American males not to cry. She explains that the human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds tears (248). This special ability…Slide7

Review: Quotations

One

distinguished anthropologist calls the American male’s reluctance to cry

“

a lessening of his capacity to be human

” (Montagu 248)

.

Montagu

finds it “very sad” that American men have a

“

trained inability

”

to shed tears

(248)

.

(No punctuation inside the

parentheses?

Final quotation

mark before the citation? Sentence

punctuation after the

citation?)Slide8

Self-Review: Block Quotations

Do quotations

that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of

verse, look like this?Montagu argues that it is both unnatural and harmful for American males not to cry:

The

human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds tears. The trained inability of any human being to weep is a lessening of his capacity to be

human – a defect that usually goes deeper than the mere inability to cry. (

248)Slide9

MLA Works Cited

Page from Website:

Author

. “Title of Text.” Website name. Publisher, Publication Date. Web 6. Date accessed. PDF (often of an article)

Author. “Title.”

Source

Name

volume.number

(year)

pages.PDF

file.

or

Publisher, year. PDF file.

Section of a Book

Alkaly

-Gut, Karen. “Murder and Marriage: Another Look at

Trifles

.”

The Wadsworth Casebook Series for

Reading

, Research and Writing:

Trifles. Ed. Donna Winchell. Boston: Wadsworth, 2004. 51-60.Slide10

A Word on wordiness

Phrases

like

I believe, I think or in my (personal) opinion are usually unnecessary. Why? Ex. I believe Game of Thrones was the best television series of 2014 for three reasons

.

Could you make this sentence shorter and still retain its original meaning? How?

Eating a healthy breakfast food every morning is very important.Slide11

For Next Class

(1)

Listen to

Serial(2) Journal Entry(3) Draft #2 Critical Analysis Essay(4)

Upload your Draft to

Smartsite

Assignments (or Course Reader Site)

and

email a copy to

your

Peer Review

Group

(

5)

Bring a laptop or hard copies

of peer

-group essays