English 102 Calendar: Week Fourteen

The final draft of the literary paper is due. Don't forget.  You can turn it in early if you want.. How does your paper compare to the student model papers online?

This is important: Unless you have been given permission after speaking to me about how you are going to write this paper, your personal research paper must be done in the traditional manner. The "traditional manner" means that your quoted material from your sources must be incorporated into your own words so that the results are grammatical sentences. You cannot do a "collage" paper unless you have talked to me about this, and I have given you permission to do it that way.

 Use Bob Cassel's paper as a model. Notice how he uses his quoted examples. Are yours similar? Do you have any hanging quotes? Do you give page citations for all of your quotes, summaries, and paraphrases?

You must use the four types of quoting in your paper. Here is how you can guarantee that you are fulfilling this requirement to use all four types of citations. Look again at the student examples from the literary papers. This first essay illustrates four ways of using citations. The first example is 

1) a quote that is a part of the sentence, grammatically correct. Note the punctuation of every one of these examples. Notice how the period goes at the end of the sentence, but the quotation marks do not include the page numbers in parentheses.

2) a quote using a "that" clause.

3) a quote that uses only a few words from the original text and inserts them into your sentence.

4) a quote treated as dialogue, using "said." Notice that this is a long quote, three lines or over. There are no quotation marks used with long quotes. The indentations act like quotation marks. Notice also that the end punctuation is a bit different. The period goes before the page numbers in parentheses. [In this case, there is no period since the quote ends with a question mark.]

 For a review of these types of quoted examples, go to the answers to The Citation Quiz.

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