Sources and citations

Why would you want to use a direct quote in your writing?

• As evidence to answer a question about the text

• To emphasize an important fact to your reader

• It's easier than thinking of your own information

• As evidence to answer a question about the text OR to emphasize an important fact to the reader

When using Google for research, you will get the best results by using multiple, specific, descriptive keywords.

• True
• False

What is an example of a primary source?

• A movie about WW 2.

• A textbook about WW2.

• A collection of pictures taken by soldiers during WW 2.

• A book written about WW 2.

Should you ever use ellipses at the beginning or end of a quote?
ex: Steinbeck describes the valley as "...the sunset lifted from the mountaintops..." (10). 

• Yes
• No

Rewording a direct quote into your own words. This can be found in Concrete Details.

• Quote

• Paraphrase

What's missing from this direct quote?

According to Anna Claybourne who wrote the book Humpback Whales, Whales are sea creatures, but they developed from land mammals.

• author

• title

• author and title

• quotation marks

Identify the publisher in this citation: Kluth, Fred. Cars of 1998. Miami: The Auto Press, 1999.

• Fred Kluth

• Miami

• Cars of 1998

• The Auto Press

Rachel has to write a paragraph about volcanoes for science. She finds a paragraph on a website that sounds great. She copies it in her own handwriting and turns it in.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

~~The problems of equivalence arises primarily in translating, ____.

• @@poems

• @@plays

• @@fiction

• @@idioms

• @@None of them

Which of the following inches of indentation should you follow in doing long quotations (block quotations)?

• ¼”

• ½”

• 1”

• 2”