Highlight the uses of paraphrasing

Open the file (Week 6) for instructions, and I uploaded more sources, pulse student papers you can look at them as examples pulse you need to make comment on 2 student pulse myself.

This is the teacher email:

Hello,

To recap:

This week you are writing a paper using at least three sources we have read so far in class. You have to figure out what your point (thesis) will be and add the others in. Berreby and Miller are examples that you can look at (they used sources, but Berreby is not citing them because his article is in a newspaper. You will cite your sources using MLA citations).

If you cite someone that the author you read quoted:

Citing indirect sources (Like Meyer and Land in Miller’s article, Or Sapolsky in Berreby for example)

Sometimes you may have to use an indirect source. An indirect source is a source cited within another source. For such indirect quotations, use “qtd. in” to indicate the source you actually consulted. For example:

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as “social service centers, and they don’t do that well” (qtd. in Weisman 259).

Note that, in most cases, a responsible researcher will attempt to find the original source, rather than citing an indirect source.

From OWL https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics // Purdue Writing LabGuidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual.Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.owl.purdue.edu

Review paragraph development:

I am not saying you can NEVER open a paragraph with an author, but try to have a topic sentence that helps readers see what point you are making in a paragraph. Consider this (the first part of the paragraph development info posted in the Moodle space in week 4 ):

This guide to paragraph/idea development, the TREDAC approach based on questions readers commonly have. Use it as a tool to make sure that you are considering the audience in each paragraph (the point can certainly continue in a second paragraph—if so conclude it there):

T Topic statement/ addresses: What’s your point? Can readers see how it relates to the previous paragraph?

R Restatement, clarification, restriction of the point: What do you mean? How does this tie to your overall point?

E Evidence or examples: For instance? How do you know, or who says what? Integrate ideas from authors here.

And so on (see the Moodle space for the week for the rest).

Here are more sources: