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Pick Your Essay #2 Topic

Instructions

For 5 easy points, let me know which topic you have selected for Essay #2! Please read the assignment directions carefully from start to finish before you decide which of the four topics sounds most interesting to you. Remember you need to have read at least four articles from the approved sources before attempting the next assignment, Step 1: Research your term .

Let me know if you have any questions!

Research Assignment: Source #1

As we begin our work on Essay #2, it's important that we take the research process seriously. We need to take our time, read many different articles on our chosen topic, and learn everything that we can.

You should be able to easily have a conversation about your topic before you begin writing an outline or rough draft. Remember, writing is having something to say, then backing up your point with evidence. So, first, you have to have something to say!

In this week's discussion boards, you will document your research process. For each discussion board, answer the following questions and write a 1-2 paragraph summary of your source. The summary should NOT be copied and pasted from the article or any other source, but should be in your own words. However, you should also include 1-3 direct quotes from the article. Look in particular for quotes that may be useful in your essay.

1. Where is this source from? CQ Researcher, Academic Search Complete, NPR, or PBS Newshour?

2. What term did you use in the search bar?

3. Why did you choose this article to summarize?

4. If from a database, copy and paste the MLA citation here. If from NPR or PBS Newshour, copy and paste the URL:

5. Write a 1-2 paragraph summary of the article. Focus on interesting information that you learned about your topic. Include specific details in your summary; if I cannot tell that you read the article based on your summary, you will not receive points for this assignment. Include 1-3 direct quotes. Each direct quote should only be 1-2 sentences long and end with an in-text citation.

6. Finally, do you believe this article will be useful in your essay? Why or why not?

Research Assignment: Source #2

1. Where is this source from? CQ Researcher, Academic Search Complete, NPR, or PBS Newshour?

2. What term did you use in the search bar?

3. Why did you choose this article to summarize?

4. If from a database, copy and paste the MLA citation here. If from NPR or PBS Newshour, copy and paste the URL:

6. Finally, do you believe this article will be useful in your essay? Why or why not?

Research Assignment: Source #3

1. Where is this source from? CQ Researcher, Academic Search Complete, NPR, or PBS Newshour?

2. What term did you use in the search bar?

3. Why did you choose this article to summarize?

4. If from a database, copy and paste the MLA citation here. If from NPR or PBS Newshour, copy and paste the URL:

6. Finally, do you believe this article will be useful in your essay? Why or why not?

Research Assignment: Source #4

1. Where is this source from? CQ Researcher, Academic Search Complete, NPR, or PBS Newshour?

2. What term did you use in the search bar?

3. Why did you choose this article to summarize?

4. If from a database, copy and paste the MLA citation here. If from NPR or PBS Newshour, copy and paste the URL:

6. Finally, do you believe this article will be useful in your essay? Why or why not?

Step 1: Research your term

Instructions

While Canvas will refer to this assignment as "quiz," it is not a quiz. Here you will begin conducting your research for Essay #2.

This assignment will help you pull information from your sources that you can use in your essay.

It will also help you to write out your MLA Works Cited citations before you begin writing your essay!

BEFORE you begin this assignment, you must:

1. Carefully read the assignment for Essay #2 and choose from one of the four terms.

2. Read through the notes and watch the videos on in-text citation and Works Cited citations.

3. Look up and READ at least one article in each of the following: CQ Researcher, Academic Search Complete, NPR.org, and PBS.org/Newshour. You will need to have the articles handy for this assignment.

(No other sources are allowed for this paper. Including any other source will result in a zero.)

Top of Form

Question 11 pts

Let's start with an article from CQ Researcher.

Provide each of the following in the answer box below:

1. The title of the article

2. The author of the article

3. A brief summary of the article in 4-5 sentences. CQ Researcher articles are often long, so you may summarize just one part of the article.

Flag question: Question 2

Question 22 pts

From the same CQ Researcher article, find the MLA citation. Near the top of the article, click "Cite Now," then click "MLA." (Do not accidentally use the APA citation!)

Copy and paste the MLA citation in the answer box below. This is the citation that will appear in your Works Cited page.

Also, the first thing in the citation, probably the author's last name, is what goes in any in-text citations for that article!

Example:

Mantel, Barbara, and Brock Hall. "Preventing Wildfires." CQ Researcher, 6 Nov. 2020, pp. 1-34, library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2020110600.

Also remember that you need the PDF version of the article in order to get page numbers. The web version will not have page numbers, but you need page numbers to use in your in-text citations.

Flag question: Question 3

Question 32 pts

Using the same article, find 2-3 sentences that you might like to use in your paper as a direct quote.

A direct quote should be something specific. It should not be obvious. It should be something that you learned by reading the article.

A direct quote is word-for-word from the article and is surrounded by quotation marks.

Also, you must include an in-text citation. For a CQ Researcher article, you will put the author's last name (or authors) in parenthesis with the page number. You do not use the author's first name, the year, or any other information.

Place the period AFTER the in-text citation.

To get the page numbers for a CQ Researcher article, you must scroll to the top and click the "View PDF" version. I know this is an extra step, but skipping the page numbers would result in serious points off on your paper!

Example:

"So far [in 2020], fires have scorched more than 2.5 million acres in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Idaho, plus a record 4.2 million acres in California.5 Links to an external site. One, the Creek Fire, has become the largest single inferno in California history, burning nearly 380,000 acres as of the end of October — much of it on national forest lands" (Mantel and Hall 4).

This example is from the same CQ Researcher article as the previous question. Look again at the citation:

Mantel, Barbara, and Brock Hall. "Preventing Wildfires." CQ Researcher, 6 Nov. 2020, pp. 1-34, library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2020110600.

Notice that there are two authors. I put both last names in the in-text citation with the word "and." I also found the page number by pulling up the PDF version of the article.

Remember that it's the author of the article, not necessarily the person speaking in the article, who belongs in the in-text citation.

Flag question: Question 4

Question 41 pts

Now let's look at an Academic Search Complete article on your topic.

Remember to avoid really long or really technical articles on your topic. Stick to the easier-to-follow articles, like those from newspapers or magazines.

Just like before, please provide:

1. The title of the article

2. The author of the article

3. A brief summary of the article in 4-5 sentences.

Flag question: Question 5

Question 52 pts

From the same Academic Search Complete article, find the MLA citation.

On the right-hand side of the screen, there is a menu. Choose the option that says "Cite." The icon looks like a gold sheet of paper. Then scroll down to "MLA." (Don't choose the first one, "Brazilian National Standard." We are not in Brazil!)

Copy and paste the MLA citation in the answer box below. This is the citation that will appear in your Works Cited page.

Also, the first thing in the citation, probably the author's last name, is what goes in any in-text citations for that article!

Remember that ALL-CAPS are not allowed in MLA, but sometimes computer-generated citations will put them in. It's our job to fix it!

Example:

WRONG:

DAVIS, MIKE. “FIRE in the ANTHROPOCENE.” Nation, vol. 311, no. 9, Nov. 2020, pp. 14–31. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=146417174&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

CORRECT:

Davis, Mike. “Fire in the Anthropocene.” Nation, vol. 311, no. 9, Nov. 2020, pp. 14–31. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=146417174&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Flag question: Question 6

Question 62 pts

Using the same article, find 2-3 sentences that you might like to use in your paper as a direct quote.

A direct quote should be something interesting. If you read the article and think the whole thing is boring, scrap it and find a different source! I don't want to read boring quotes!

Also, you must include an in-text citation. For an Academic Search Complete, you will once again put the author's last name (or authors) in parenthesis with the page number. You do not use the author's first name, the year, or any other information.

Place the period AFTER the in-text citation.

Some articles will have PDF versions with page numbers. You may also have some articles with no PDF versions, and therefore no page numbers. If that's the case, only use the author's last name, with no other information.

Example:

"Although Australia is a close contender, California best illustrates the vicious circle in which extreme heat leads to frequent extreme fires that prevent natural regeneration—and with the help of tree diseases, accelerate the conversion of iconic landscapes into parched grasslands and treeless mountain slopes" (Davis 16).

Flag question: Question 7

Question 71 pts

Now we can leave the databases and go to the web. Let's look at your article from NPR.org on your topic.

Just like before, please provide:

1. The title of the article

2. The author of the article

3. A brief summary of the article in 4-5 sentences.

Flag question: Question 8

Question 82 pts

Now we have to write out the MLA citation for the NPR article.

Unfortunately, NPR and PBS do not provide ready-made citations for us. This means we have more work to do!

Follow the guidelines in this week's lecture and notes, along with the worksheet I provided to write out your citation.

Note: A lot of students take a shortcut here and rely on websites like EasyBib to generate their citations. If you do, you are running a risk. These tools are imperfect, and any mistakes the computer makes are YOUR mistakes.

If you are going to use a tool like that, you should at least use the notes in this module to check the citation to make sure it's correct.

The citations for basic webpages are not hard, and personally, I think it's actually less work to just write it out!

Here's a screenshot of an article from NPR I will use as an example:

Your citations will follow this basic model:

Author's Name. "Title of the Article." Name of the website, Publication date, complete URL of the webpage.

So for this article, it's:

Brekke, Dan. "To Prevent Calif. Wildfires, Utility Preemptively Shuts Down Power." NPR.org, 27 October 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928120970/to-prevent-calif-wildfires-utility-pre-emptively-shuts-down-power Links to an external site.

Remember to italicize the title of the website. Also, remember that on your Works Cited page, your citations must include a hanging indent.

Flag question: Question 9

Question 92 pts

Now let's choose a direct quote from this article and add an in-text citation.

Again, choose something specific and interesting. Quotes should be no more than a couple of sentences. If it's longer than about 4 lines in your paper, it's too long! (There is a way to "block quote" longer quotes in MLA, but we will not be doing that for this paper because it's such as a short paper.)

NPR articles may not include an author. If that's the case, place a shortened version of the article, in quotation marks, in your in-text citation.

NEVER put the date or "NPR" in an in-text citation. That will always be wrong.

Also, web articles do not have page numbers, so you will only include the author's last name OR the title of the article. Do not "make up" page numbers or just put the number 1.

Example:

Even though my sample article does have an author, I am going to write an example of how to do it without an author:

"Falling trees can bring down lines. Or branches can blow into live wires. Or power poles can snap. And as we've seen many times, an incident like that can provide the spark for a catastrophic fire" ("To Prevent Calif. Wildfires").

Flag question: Question 10

Question 101 pts

Last one!

Let's take a look at your source from PBS.org/Newshour.

Just like before, please provide:

1. The title of the article

2. The author of the article

3. A brief summary of the article in 4-5 sentences.

Flag question: Question 11

Question 112 pts

Now write out a citation for your PBS.org/Newshour article.

Example:

Gecker, Jocelyn. "Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres." PBS Newshour, 4 October 2020, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/record-breaking-california-wildfires-surpass-4-million-acres Links to an external site.

Remember, if there is no author, or a corporate author like "Associated Press," then just start with the title of the article, like this:

"Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres." PBS Newshour, 4 October 2020, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/record-breaking-california-wildfires-surpass-4-million-acres Links to an external site.

Flag question: Question 12

Question 122 pts

FINALLY, write out a direct quote from your PBS Newshour article. Include an in-text citation.

These articles will not have page numbers since they are web articles with no PDF options. Only include the author's last name. If there is no author, use a shortened version of the title, in quotation marks.

Example:

"Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres (6,250 square miles) this year — more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state" (Gecker).

If there had been no author: