Homework

ENG 176 Critical Writing II

Source Use Quiz

To complete this assignment, you will need to open the “APA Exercise Links,” which are in the

Bookmarks section of your ENG 176 Campus Web area. To complete the assignment, use Microsoft

Word. You may use your textbooks to complete the assignment. Make sure you number your answers.

When you have completed the quiz, upload your file to the Source Use Quiz assignment in the

Coursework area.

1. Open the “Transforming Food Deserts” link. Assume you want to directly quote the first two

sentences of the article. Using APA style, show how you would use the direct quotation in your

paper. Use an attributive tag that best sets up the quotation. (Consider who the author is.)

2. Open the “Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food” link. Go to page iii, and read the first bullet

point under “Findings.” Is the paraphrase below an acceptable paraphrase of the information

presented in the first sentence of that bullet point? Why or why not? (Explain your answer.)

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (2009), 2.3 million American

households, or 2.2 percent of the American population, live more than a mile from a

supermarket and do not have access to a vehicle.

3. Open the “Experts: Food Deserts” link. Read the first sentence of the seventh paragraph, which

is a direct quotation spoken by Dr. Latetia Moore. Assume you want to use her direct quotation

in your paper. Using APA style, show how you would use the direct quotation in your paper. Be

sure to cite the source correctly.

4. Write the reference citation for the “Experts: Food Deserts” link. Make sure you format it

correctly. (Make sure you double space it and use a hanging indent. If you are using auto-

numbering to number your responses, you will need to create a new, non-numbered

paragraph.)