assignment

Part 1: Quoting

Required source: A professional journal article from the list presented in the Library section of the classroom as explained above. Do not look for quotes already presented in the article; your mission is to find direct statements in the article and quote them yourself.

Quotation 1 – parenthetical citation

· Choose a meaningful statement of 25–39 words from the article and quote it without introduction, using in-text citation after the end-quotation mark and before the final sentence punctuation.

Quotation 2 – narrative citation

· Choose a different meaningful statement of 25–39 words from the same article and quote it properly, starting your sentence with According to or a similar introduction, and inserting proper citation as explained in the Reading.

Required adjustment:

· Edit just one of your two quotes by correctly using brackets, an ellipsis,  or  [sic]. These techniques are explained in the Reading.

· Caution: If the original does not have an error, you cannot use [sic] and must instead employ either brackets for a clarification or an ellipsis to delete words. Note that British English spelling errors are not considered errors.

Reference entry:

· Provide a full 7th edition APA-standard reference entry for this journal article.

Part 2: Paraphrasing from two other articles

Choose two (2) other journal articles from the same Library list. It is recommended that you pick articles that are relatively easy for you to understand, especially if you are rather new to the technology field. Find a section of each article that interests you and write paraphrases.

For each of your two paraphrases, separately:

· Compose a descriptive title (a phrase) in your own words.

· Write a paraphrase of 170–220 words. If it is difficult to meet the minimum length or to avoid writing more than the maximum, then a more suitable section (or section size) from the original article must be chosen.

· Do not include any quotes.

· Write the paraphrases in paragraph form (no lists).  

· Include proper citation as explained in the reading.

· Provide a full 7th edition APA-standard reference entry.

For all parts of this assignment:

· Your writing must follow the rules for formal writing style as explained previously.

· Do not use any first person (I, me, my, myself, we, us, or our).

· Do not use wording that may be considered emotional or opinionated.

· Hint for the reference entries: Use the library system to find the entry and then make corrections if necessary, as explained in the Reading. You may have to look at the articles themselves for volume, issue, and page numbers as well as to verify authors' names.  Do not use Word's citation tool or other citation generators;  you are expected to learn to create entries on your own.