Proper integration of source material into an essay requires accurate quotations and careful paraphrasing. The purpose of this assignment is to recognize both.

PURPOSE (OVERVIEW)

Proper integration of source material into an essay requires accurate quotations and careful paraphrasing. The purpose of this assignment is to recognize both.

SKILLS

Examining in-text citations will allow you to gain research-writing confidence and expertise. It will provide experience with quoting and citing sources accurately to avoid misquoting or failing to acknowledge the sources. The assignment also provides practice with examining if paraphrasing and citing sources avoids borrowing the source’s words or sentence structures while representing faithfully the source’s intended meaning.

KNOWLEDGE

This assignment will help you become more efficient and competent in handling source material in an MLA research essay. You will gain knowledge of several of the rules for citing sources in-text, including proper citation of page numbers.

TASK (INSTRUCTIONS)

Return to the previous module and review Chapter 17, “Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism” (especially p. 732 – 736). Then read the worksheet page below “Using quotations and paraphrases without plagiarizing.” Please note, the worksheet is not fill-able below. You need to click the Download arrow next to the arrow. It will give you a separate doc that is fill-able to type your answers.

The worksheet has instructions. Each numbered item (1-10) presents sentences that the student has written in the form of quotations, summaries, or paraphrases. Your job is to read each one and decide if the student has presented the source material correctly in each of the sentences. If the sentence is good (i.e. a good paraphrase or a good quotation) and uses MLA correctly, simply write this in the space below the sentence:

  1. Correct

Then move on to the next one. If you think #1 is done incorrectly, do this:

  1. Incorrect. The writer has….

Then explain what’s wrong, and move on to the next. Please note that there may be more than one thing wrong in the numbered exercises, so check everything in each one. Here is the worksheet (again remember to click the down arrow to download a doc you can fill:

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