In text citations
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Save this file to your computer as “Week 5 In-Text Citation Practice XXXX” (the x’s should be your last name.) Then, fill it in and upload it to the assignment in Week 5 for credit.
The purpose of this practice is to begin thinking about how to effectively incorporate sources into our argument. The first step is understanding the mechanics of handling other authors’ words in order to avoid unintentional plagiarism. Remember that Chapter 17 from Argument Today is a good resource for help.
Paraphrase then summarize the following passages with special attention to the critical difference between paraphrasing and summarizing mentioned in last week’s quiz as well as Chapter 17:
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
From Chapter 3 of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
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“When living standards visibly contrast — such as in crowded urban centers, where slums are scattered amid wealthy neighborhoods — studies have shown cooperation between the rich and the poor falters. In the context of climate change, this lack of cooperation between rich and poor manifests itself in international negotiations.
Wealthy countries tend to ignore the issues and voices of poor countries , which often tend toward the immediate and existential — education and healthcare, for example. It's a situation made ever more tragic since loss of life due to climate extremes tends to be high in poor countries, where recovery from natural disasters is also slower.”
From Murtugudde’s “A Tale of Two Worlds: Nations Collide on Climate Change”
Dowloaded from livescience.com
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For this final question, you will paraphrase and summarize the following passage just as before. However, you must also include a third observation in which you use a direct quotation and cite it using APA format. For this third observation, try to state what the excerpt’s thesis is and use at least one quoted phrase so that you can practice APA in-text citation. The pertinent info for this basic citation follows the passage:
“[…]Not that there aren't some debits on The Simpsons' ledger—for every King of the Hill, there was a Fish Police and a Critic. But over 18 years, The Simpsons has been so influential, it is difficult to find any strain of television comedy that does not contain its DNA. And yet the show's footprint is so much larger. Homer's signature "D'oh!" has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. There's a "Simpsons and Philosophy" course at Berkeley (for credit), not to mention the hundreds of published academic articles with The Simpsons as their subject. Even conservatives have come around. "It's possibly the most intelligent, funny, and even politically satisfying TV show ever," wrote the National Review in 2000. "The Simpsons celebrates many … of the best conservative principles: the primacy of family, skepticism about political authority.… Springfield residents pray and attend church every Sunday." Next to pornography, no single subject may have as many Web sites and blogs dedicated to its veneration. The Simpsons has permeated our vernacular, the way we tell jokes, and how our storytellers practice their craft. If you look around, you can see the evidence, but as with any truly powerful cultural force, you can never see it all—it's buried too deep.”
From John Ortved’s “Simpson Family Values,” originally published in Vanity Fair in 2007
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