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Flyer - Introduce Your
Quotes
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MICA's April Walters
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With the imagery of an alien at a party (to show how disconcerting
it is to read quotes from experts just plunked in the middle of a
paper), this flyer also gives an example of a paragraph with
properly introduced quotes.
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Naming Authors
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Pratt Instute
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You want to give proper credit, but what's the right way to refer to
your source?
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Framing Your Sources
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Emily Carr Institute
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Instead of always saying "In Hobbes's Leviathan, he writes..." your
papers will be stronger with more descriptive frames. This link
tells you several different purposes your frames can serve, and
gives examples of each.
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Quoting Smoothly
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Northern VA Community College
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When you quote something, it should flow smoothly. This page gives
several options.
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Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
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Purdue OWL
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This explains the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and
summarizing and when you might want to use each.
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Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
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Purdue OWL
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Gives 6 steps to effective paraphrasing. Also has an example of
original passage and its paraphrase and summary.
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Taking Someone's Idea and Running with it
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Pratt Institute
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How to work with an idea from a text (or person) that you then take
in another direction in your text. Yes, the original source needs
credit, and this shows how to make the shift clear in the text
between the source's ideas and your own.
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The Sutton Hoo Helmet Exercise
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MICA's Louise Martinez
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This is an exercise showing first some original source material and
a sample essay with poorly integrated research and undocumented
quotations, and a corrected version.
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