Thursday, October 9th

Announcement: If you would like to choose your own article to summarize and analyze for the Unit 3 paper, email me the article by Monday and so I can read and approve it. 

What we covered on Thursday, October 9th:  

* Learned about summary, paraphrasing, and quoting: 

1)   Summarizing

·      Summarizing References the original source text

·       Condenses the original text to make it shorter (ex: an abstract of a paper can condense an article to a paragraph)

·      Uses your own words, NOT the sources’

2)   Paraphrasing:

·      * References a specific portion of the source text

·      Uses the author’s own words

·      Condenses the source text, but may elaborate on it

·      Must be cited in-text

3)   Quoting

·      References a small, specific portion of the source text

·      Uses the sources’ words exactly (within quotation marks)

·      Must be cited in-text

4)   How to quote things in text: traditional quotes

·      According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

·      According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).

·      Is it possible that dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184)?

·      In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).

5)   Block quotes

·      Quotations longer than four lines of prose are considered “block quotes”

·      Should be indented one inch from the margin (hit tab twice). The don’t have quotation marks

·      they still need to be introduced in your own words, and the citation should still come at the end

* Practiced summary by breaking into groups and summarizing an approved article and then presenting it to the class 


Homework for Thursday: 

* READ: another one of the approved articles and summarize it in 5 -7 sentences