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5 / 5 pts

Which topic have you chose to define in Essay #2? 

Remember, the goal is not to write a technical article. Imagine if your best friend asked you what the word means. Your essay should explain it in way that they would understand, using interesting examples and stories from current news. 

1. Universal Basic Income

2. Fentanyl

3. Gerrymandering

4. Cultural Appropriation

Your Answer:

Title: Universal basic income

Universal basic income is a governments adapted program that is run like a social welfare where all citizens in a given population receive a guaranteed income in a form of unconditional transfer payment. The chosen population receives the transfer payment without need to work or any means of testing. The amount received.

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 1

1. Where is this source from - CQ Researcher

2. What term did you use in the search bar - Universal Basic Income

3. Why did you choose this article to summarize- This article was chosen because it is related to the topic universal basic income. It outlines various proposals and programs implementing universal basic income in the United States.

4. The MLA citation

1 / 1 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. 

Your Answer:

CQ Researcher article

1. The title of the article: Universal Basic Income

2. The author of the article: Lorna Collier

3. The issue of universal basic income (UBI) has been the center of mainstream conversation in United States politics. It is argued that the introduction of UBI is essential to addressing income disparity, wage stagnation, and loss of jobs due to automation in the country. This situation has drawn conflicting ideas because some people say UBI programs will bust the budget and discourage some members of society from working. The introduction of automation in blue-and-white-collar jobs will result in increased job losses within the next 20 years.

2 / 2 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. 

Your Answer:

2 / 2 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: 

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. 

Your Answer:

Direct quotes from CQ article. 

 “Indeed, that income gap in the United States is wider than it has been since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking it in 1967” (Lorna, 6).

“A basic income program has rarely been implemented universally, with everyone in a given population — even the well-off — receiving free money. Instead, almost every UBI trial has targeted the unemployed or those on the lower end of the earning spectrum” (Lorna, 12). 

1 / 1 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.

Your Answer:

1. The title of the article: The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study.

2. The author of the article: Boglarka Herke and Lilla Vicsek

3. A brief summary of the article

Over the past decade the idea of universal basic income (UBI) has received attention having potential policy proposals around it. This has been a major political debate with those proposed to the idea arguing that UBI is a good response to the negative consequences of automation across various employment sectors. The introduction of UBI would mark the end of most kinds of benefits that have been unconditionally available to all citizens. The attitude of young people towards UBI is relevant to future context because they form the future of work.

2 / 2 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.

Your Answer:

The MLA citation Academic Search Complete article. 

2 / 2 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). 

Your Answer:

“UBI has emerged as a potential solution to these labor market changes as it could secure the livelihood of those involved in re-training programs, who work in precarious or atypical conditions, or are excluded from the labor market due to automation” (Boglárka, & Vicsek, 312).

“One assertion is that people would become lazy due to the lack of work, and negative social and psychological phenomena would increase, similar to those that have been observed among the unemployed” (Boglárka, & Vicsek, 313). 

1 / 1 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.

Your Answer:

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 : Andrew Yang Talks Universal Basic Income During The Coronavirus Crisis.

2. The author of the article: NPR transcripts 

3. A brief summary

The attention to universal basic income increased during the coronavirus pandemic period. The idea was popularized by presidential candidate Andrew Yang on his campaign trail. During the covid-19 pandemic, both the Republicans and Democrats tried to pull together a massive package targeting Americans during the crisis period. In his proposal, Andrew intended to transfer cash directly to individuals and households. The amount sent to individuals and households would be able to meet their basic needs.

2 / 2 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: 

2 / 2 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").

Your Answer:

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

 “So there are some differences, but the fundamentals are identical in terms of putting cash directly into our citizens' hands so that we can solve our problems, stay healthier and, in this case, feed our families” (“Andrew Yang Talks Universal Basic Income”).

1 / 1 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.

Your Answer:

1. The title of the article : Pandemic reignites idea of universal basic income

2 / 2 pts

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

Example: 

2 / 2 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:

"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" ("Record-breaking California"). 

Your Answer:

“In Stockton, California a pilot program called the Stockton economic empowerment demonstration will see a distribution of $500 a month to 125 city residents for more than a year” (“Pandemic reignites idea”).

Quiz Score:  20 out of 20

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