Follow these steps:
- Open and look at the “Paraphrasing Rev” ppt or pdf (in the Writing folder on the Google drive).
- Read pages 72-79 in the Essay Guide and look at the example essay.
- Review the presentation: Citing Paraphrases Examples.pptx.
- Open your research paper file.
- Add the citations for the information you naturally paraphrased in your paper (follow the models on page 75 of the Essay Guide!).
- You will NOT submit this to Turnitin. You will continue with the next step in this same file.
Your next step is to select the phrases and snippets from your scholarly sources that you will actually quote (not paraphrase) in your paper. While most of your scholarly sources should be paraphrased in order to maintain your voice throughout your paper, you SHOULD quote particularly vivid or important elements to lend ethos to your text. Today, you will NOT worry about lead-ins or blending. All you need to do is insert the scholarly quotes you have chosen into your paper where you think they will best support the point you are trying to make.
Here are some important guidelines for this task:
- You MUST put quoted material in quotation marks AND every quote MUST be followed by a citation – go ahead and add the citation when you insert the quote so you don’t have to track it down again later.
- QUOTE PURPOSEFULLY! Only quote information that REALLY supports the points you make, and don’t quote words you don’t need. You DO NOT need to quote complete sentences – see the Essay Guide for information about shortening quotations (pages 84-86).
- You MUST quote your sources EXACTLY. Changing a quote without indicating that you’ve changed it is just as bad as plagiarism. See the Essay Guide for directions and models for modifying quotations if they need to be adjusted for blending (pages 81-83).
- Make sure you get the punctuation and the citations in the correct order. See the guidelines and examples on pages 84-86 of the Essay Guide.
- Look at the model essay on pages 91-93 of the Essay Guide. You can see that quoted fragments and phrases are inserted with their appropriate citations. Compare this to the model essay at the previous step in order to see the difference (pages 76-79).
Follow these steps:
- Read pages 79-93 in the Essay Guide.
- View the presentation: Adding Quotes and Citations.pptx.
- Open your research paper file.
- Add the information you wish to quote, along with an appropriate citations, to your paper.
- You will NOT submit this to Turnitin. You will continue with the next step in this same file.