Instructions: USE GOOGLE to find a credible article from a major publication (national newspaper or magazine) of at least 750 words. Read it carefully, and use chapters 20 & 22 of your textbook to demonstrate appropriate college-level use of sources.
1. Provide the MLA citation for your source below. See chapter 22 or the previous module for examples of how to cite sources from web-based publications. Examples 23 and 24 (page 512) in the 9th edition or example 36 (page 508) in the 8th edition will provide models of what a citation should include. If you have more than one author or no author listed, please take a look at the first few pages of chapter 22 (either edition).
Put citation here
2. Summarize your article in 2-3 sentences using the explanation and guidelines in chapter 20 (on pages 470-471 in the 8th edition or 475-76 in the 9th edition); include an appropriate parenthetical citation (look at examples in chapter 22 for a model of this). Remember that a summary must be written in your own words and sentence structures, so that means that you should not be using any exact wording or quotes; furthermore, using the sentence structure of the original and switching around the order of the words or swapping out synonyms is a form of plagiarism.
If you fail to include a parenthetical citation, use a quote in your summary, or plagiarize in any way (either accidentally or on purpose), you will get a zero for this assignment and be asked to revise your work to demonstrate competency with this key skill. Models of different types of in-text citations can be found on pages 496-500 in the 8th edition or 502-506 in the 9th edition.
Write summary here
3. Take a section of your article that is especially relevant or important; copy the text below. You should have about 150-200 words here.
Copy/paste a section of the article here
4. Paraphrase the section you have above copied above using the guidelines found in chapter 20 (on pages 467-470 in the 8th edition or 473-475 in the 9th edition). Include a signal phrase before your paraphrase (look at examples in chapter 22 for a model of this). Remember that a paraphrase must be written in your own words and sentence structures, so that means that you should not be using any exact wording or quotes; furthermore, using the sentence structure of the original and switching around the order of the words or swapping out synonyms is a form of plagiarism.
If you fail to include a signal phrase, use a quote in your paraphrase, or plagiarize in any way (either accidentally or on purpose), you will get a zero for this assignment and be asked to revise your work to demonstrate competency with this key skill. Models of different types of in-text citations can be found on pages 496-500 in the 8th edition or 502-506 in the 9th edition.
Write paraphrase here
5. Review the guidelines for using quotations in chapter 20 (pages 471-473 in the 8th edition or 477-479 in the 9th edition). Select a quote that you think is important and needs to be retained word-for-word (not just a random quote), and use a signal phrase to introduce the quote. If you fail to include a signal phrase, you will get a zero for this assignment. The quote you select should be from the author of the article rather than a source that was quoted in the article. If want to quote an indirect source (someone who was quoted in the article), please follow the example #13 (page 499 in the 8th edition or 505 in the 9th edition) to ensure that you include both the name of the speaker as well as the author who wrote the article.
Write quote here
6. Review the passage below, and explain how its use of quotes could be improved. Explain the most significant problem and explain how to fix it; the MLA In-Text Citation video in the module will help you with this part of the assignment (youll probably guess incorrectly if you skip this video and make up some nonsense). There is one key error with these quotes that I am hoping you will identify. If youve been working through the chapter and module info, it should be pretty obvious.
Passage: The rise of leisure travel, the tide of young people enlisting in the Peace Corps and the growing popularity of cookbooks in the post-war years deepened our hunger pangs for foods from Japan, West Africa, India, Latin America and the Middle East. The ebb and flow of global influences is the only constant in American food. Wasabi, Sriracha, and naan and pita and soy sauce and hummus all of these things would have struck an American in 1950 as very exotic and foreign and odd. But now, these are things that are very everyday for many people (Johnson). Its an ideal moment to lay down our forks and rethink how we perceive our immigrant cuisines. Our exposure to a world of foods has never been greater; our palates have never been more primed. It was only after the world wars that we began to break out of our ethnic enclaves. We went to school. We traded lunches, and we began to eat each others food (Twitty). The Great Migration turned everyday food of the South into the hip soul food of Chicago.
Explain how to improve use of quotes here watch the MLA citation video in the module for some help if need it]
