MLA - Direct Quotes & Paraphrasing Today you will need: Warm up Notes 1st Body Paragraph “The Most Dangerous Game” “Cecil the Lion” AOW

Last Week... ✤ Internal Citations... ✤ Direct Quotes... ✤ Paraphrasing... ✤ Works Cited Page...

Essential Question ✤ To what extent does perception shape reality? ✤ WHAT DOES THIS REALLY MEAN? ✤ How far does our perspective (what we observe and what we think about) form how we view real life situations?

Our Quarter 1 Essay... ✤ Seeks to answer how perception shapes reality by giving examples of the characters and people involved in the articles and the stories we read in class. ✤ Demonstrates your ability to extract evidence from the text in the form of direct quotes and paraphrasing in the MLA format.

Direct Quotes Using the author’s words exactly the way they appear in their original text. When a direct quote is used as a sentence alone, just place quotation marks around the original text. “There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat there but the muffled throb of the engine that drove the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller” (Connell 2).

Double Check Your Paragraph... ✤ Do you have internal citations for your direct quotes? ✤ Does the period appear to the right of the internal citation? ✤ Do you have quotation marks around your direct quote?

Introducing Direct Quotes with Lead-ins Know the reason why you are introducing this quote. Other suggestions: Say the novel or author Say the character’s name you are talking about In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell describes the character General Zaroff as proper man with “[…]a cultivated voice marked by a slight accent that gave it added precision and deliberateness” (Connell 4).

Let’s Practice... ✤ Look at your paragraph... ✤ Do you introduce your direct quotes with lead-ins or do you drop your quotes into your paragraph? ✤ Take the next 5 minutes to read and work on your lead-ins and direct quotes.

You might need to change the direct quote... If you change any of the original text in the quote in order to fit the flow of your essay, place brackets [ ] around your changed information, and if you leave information out of the text, add an ellipse... like this: Changed Quote: In “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character Whitney demonstrates his compassion for the jaguar when he states that “ ‘ [...] they understand one thing -- fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death’ ” (Connell 1).

Quoting Dialogue... If the direct quote is a quote within a text or character dialogue, place the direct quote in quotation marks, but add one quotation around the quoted quote like this: In “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character Whitney demonstrates his compassion for the jaguar when he states that “ ‘ [...] they understand one thing -- fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death ’ ” (Connell 1).

Looking Closer... Take this opportunity to... ✤ Did you change anything from the original quote? ✤ Do you need to lowercase the first letter of your direct quotes? ✤ Would you like to take anything out of the quote to make it fit seamlessly into your essay?

Paraphrasing... Lastly, paraphrasing is when you take information from a source and restate the information in your own words. Your own words means that you must reword the idea...do not use any of the keywords within the direct quote. Find SYNONYMS to replace these words. Place an internal citation at the end of your paraphrase. Most plagiarism happens with paraphrasing.

One last look... ✤ Read your paragraph and check for the following ✤ Did you use a direct quote and a paraphrase? ✤ Do you have the correct internal citation after each? ✤ Does your paragraph provide evidence to help answer the essential question?

Homework ✤ Rewrite your paragraph on a new sheet of paper with the corrections completed from today.

Argumentative Essay Today you will need: Warm up Notes 1st Body Paragraph-Revised Edition Only

The Power of Proofreading ✤ More eyes...more mistakes caught ✤ Feedback in the form of Critique... suggestions to make your ideas sound more powerful... ✤ Listen to the feedback...most often the feedback is worth taking...especially with formal essay writing

Switch Papers ✤ Feedback on a sticky-note includes: ✤ Introductions to direct quotes...do they sound mechanical or natural in voice? ✤ Does the paper use phrases like “this quote states...”? ✤ Does the paper use the “I” pronoun?

Formal Papers Never... ✤ Use the “I” or “me” pronouns ✤ Never use slang ✤ Never use & or w/ ✤ Never state that the reader will be reading an essay...

Body Paragraph Format-- Notes ✤ Topic sentence- Introduces what you will speak about in this paragraph ✤ Background- What will the reader need to know about this topic before jumping into the evidence? ✤ Evidence (x2 for this paper) -Paraphrase or direct quote from text ✤ Explanation of Evidence- why/how does this relate to the topic? ✤ Transition Sentence- Closes this idea in order to go to the next...

Look at my body paragraph…

Review your paragraph in your pods... You are working alone, but you have support in your groups... ✤ Use my example to help you revise your own paper... ✤ Does your paragraph include: ✤ A topic sentence ✤ Background information ✤ Evidence & Explanation for both articles? ✤ A transition sentence?

Homework ✤ Rewrite your paragraph to include the revisions made today...