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This becomes apparent from the first line of his speech, in which the President declares "I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that...I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels".
"This becomes apparent from the first line of his speech, in which the President declares, 'I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that [...] I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels.'"
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Tour text is a song entitled "1-800-273-8255" by a rapper called Logic. The song is from an album entitled Everybody[italicized]
What is From the album: Logic. "1-800-273-8255." Everybody[italicized], Visionary Music Group, 2017. From YouTube: Logic. "1-800-273-8255." Everybody[italicized], Visionary Music Group, 2017, YouTube[italicized], URL.
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"Nutritionism, as he defines it to be, is the ideology that nutrition is the key to understanding food. He argues that consumers are getting so caught up in nutrition facts and labels that they aren't making smart choices. For example, in the 1800s and early 1900s, people believed that protein was an evil nutrient that caused constipation as well as cancers." 1. Which sentences (if any) need a citation? 2. How would you include a citation?
It depends. Sentence 1: if any of the words used in the paraphrase are the same that Pollan (the source) uses in his argument, then yes, a citation is necessary. Sentence 2: nope, it's just a paraphrase. Sentence 3: is this example Pollan's? Then yes, definitely: "For example, in the 1800s and early 1900s, people believed that protein was an evil nutrient that caused constipation as well as cancers (page #)."
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In the most watched TED talk of all time "Do schools kill creativity?[italicized]", Sir Ken Robinson argues that creativity is just as important as math and language and throughout years of schooling, it is squandered. (3 changes)
In the most watched TED talk of all time, "Do schools kill creativity?," Sir Ken Robinson argues that creativity is just as important as math and language and throughout years of schooling, it is squandered.
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Your text is a TED Talk entitled "Death with Dignity," authored/delivered by Grace Pastine, published to YouTube on June 19, 2015
What is Directly from TED source: Pastine, Grace. "Death with Dignity." TED. June 2015. Lecture.
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You only reference one text throughout your paper. Do you need to include an in-text citation for this source every time you quote the source? Ex: your text is Coach Headen's "Hold the Rope" speech and you don't reference any other texts in your essay. The first time you quote the speech, it follows the conventional form: "'Blah blah blah' (Headen)." You quote the speech five more times in your essay -- do you need to follow each with "(Headen)." ?
No. That is, if your text is written and no longer than a single page. If you are only using ONE text and it's an essay or book (i.e., longer than a single page), you do NOT have to include the author's name every single time you quote the text. You DO have to note the page number from which you are quoting. Similarly, if you are using a video, song, or recording, you do NOT have to include the artist/speaker's name every time you quote the text. You DO have to note the time in the video/song/recording at which your quote begins. (Ex: "'Blah blah blah' (13:40)."
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He states that "five score years ago," Abraham Lincoln "signed the Emancipation Proclamation" (King, 1963). 1. How would you fix this? 2. How would your answer change if you were citing two different speeches by King, each delivered in a different year?
What is 1. He states that "five score years ago," Abraham Lincoln "signed the Emancipation Proclamation" (King). 2. He states that "five score years ago," Abraham Lincoln "signed the Emancipation Proclamation" (King, "I Have a Dream").
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Your text is an open letter that Colonel Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioner in 2016. What questions do you need to ask before you can create a citation?
What was the letter titled? What if it doesn't have a title? Where was it published? What is the source our classmate is using? Powers, Col. Jeffery. "Title of the letter." Site of original publication. My source (if different). 2016. Web.
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Your text is an organization's mission statement. The document is only two paragraphs long and exists on a single webpage. It's also the only text that you quote from in your essay. 1. Do you need to cite it in the conventional way (i.e. "Blah blah blah" (Author)? 2. Since there are no page numbers, what is the "conventional way"?
I would cite the mission statement the first time you quote from it, but perhaps not after that if it's clear to the reader that the mission statement is the only outside source. The mission statement is short enough that I would treat it like a poem. That means that instead of a page number, I would include the line number from which I am quoting. So the first citation would be: "'Blah blah blah' (Author 5)." Every subsequent citation would be: "'blah blah blah blah' (36-8)."
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Malala begins her speech by establishing her credibility. She thanks those who prayed for her recovery and mentions that she "received thousands of good wish cards and gifts from all over the world (Malala Yousafzai)." (2 changes)
Malala begins her speech by establishing her credibility. She thanks those who prayed for her recovery and mentions that she "received thousands of good wish cards and gifts from all over the world" (Yousafzai, time of quote).
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Your text is a chapter from a book. But not just any book. It's an anthology compiled by two editors, Matt Robinson and David Kleban. Every chapter in the anthology is written by a different author. The one you are working with is written by Drue Froeschke. How do you cite this chapter?
Author's name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Anthology [italicized]. Editors. Publication information. Medium (Print or Web). Froeschke, Drue. "Diving into Kendrick Lamar's Swimming Pool." Rhetorical Analysis Essays[italicized]. Kleban, David, and Matt Robinson, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Print.
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At one or more points in your essay, you have a paragraph that summarizes the argument and evidence of your source text. In most of your sentences, even though you are paraphrasing the text you nevertheless transpose the author's language into your own words. 1) Do you need to include a citation after these sentences? Occasionally in this same paragraph, you will paraphrase the text using some of the author's language but modifying them slightly. 2) Do you need to include a citation after these sentences? 3) If there are more than 3-4 instances in your paragraph where you paraphrase the source text in your own words but where the ideas themselves are not your original thoughts, how would you cite this?
1. No citation necessary. You are transposing the sentence into your own words. If you are unsure, let common sense and honesty be your guide, and err on the side of caution. 2. Yes, whenever you use the language or original ideas (including evidence and argument) of someone else, you MUST include a citation. 3. You may insert a single citation at the end of the paragraph. [i.e., "paraphrase paraphrase my analysis paraphrase ending paragraph here. (Author, Page I'm paraphrasing)"]
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During Testifying when Janine admits to being gang raped, Aunt Helena asks "whose fault was it (72)," and the Handmaids reply back "her fault, her fault, her fault (72)." 1. How would you fix this? (4 changes) 2. How would your answer change if this was the first quote from the book in this paper? 3. What if the quote ran over two pages (i.e., the first quote was on p. 72 and the second on p. 73)?
1. During Testifying when Janine admits to being gang raped, Aunt Helena asks, "whose fault was it," and the Handmaids reply back, "her fault, her fault, her fault" (72). 2. During Testifying when Janine admits to being gang raped, Aunt Helena asks, "whose fault was it," and the Handmaids reply back, "her fault, her fault, her fault" (Atwood 72). 3. During Testifying when Janine admits to being gang raped, Aunt Helena asks, "whose fault was it," and the Handmaids reply back, "her fault, her fault, her fault" (72-3).
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How do you cite something you hear in class discussion? Do you need to?
One way to avoid accidental plagiarism -- for which you are still accountable -- is to get into the habit of taking good notes. If you are writing down another person's words by hand, put them in quotes, underline them, include their names or initials after the quote, or do whatever you need to do to make sure you don't commit accidental plagiarism. If you use a quote from someone in class, follow the typical protocol starting with the most important information: Bredar, Hannah. "Lecture, 25 October 2017." English 125.062: Writing across Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 25 October 2017.
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"Perhaps no quote is more relevant to the world's current state of affairs than the following: 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'"
Aphorisms (truisms, epithets, proverbs) are tricky because they are difficult to attribute to a single person. If you know for certain 1. who said the aphorism first, or 2. who popularized it, then yes, please attribute it to them in-text. (Ex: Ben Franklin coined the phrase, "the early bird gets the worm." I would probably NOT cite it like this: "blah blah blah 'the early bird gets the worm' (Franklin)." I would be more inclined to include the source in my sentence: "blah blah blah, because as Ben Franklin noted/in the words of Ben Franklin, 'the early bird gets the worm.'" However, more often than not it is difficult to trace the genealogy of an aphorism, in which case it does not need to be cited.