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Essay #1 Reminders!

Essay #1 Reminders!. Review pages 600-612 -- St. Martin’s Guide. Topic sentences Making transitions (some great info here) Avoiding word repetition Synonyms/ideas for variation. Citing…. Italicize names of books and newspapers (ex: The New York Times )

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Essay #1 Reminders!

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  1. Essay #1 Reminders!

  2. Review pages 600-612 --St. Martin’s Guide • Topic sentences • Making transitions (some great info here) • Avoiding word repetition • Synonyms/ideas for variation

  3. Citing… • Italicize names of books and newspapers (ex: The New York Times) • Make sure you have the period in the correct place (at the very end of the sentence, after the citation). • If you know the page number, include it. Internet sources (ex: web-site) will never have page numbers. Journals, magazine articles, etc. should always have page numbers, and you will cite them appropriately. • If you have several sentences from the same source, make sure to include the citation information in each sentence, not just the first one. All cited info must be written to properly give credit.

  4. In-text citations • Example: • Two authors: “Nuclear warfare is a terrible and destructible force in our world today” (Johnson and Smith 13). • Three or more authors (note the citation): “Nuclear warfare must end if humanity desires to survive” (Johnson et. al. 15).

  5. Reminders! • Make sure to cite allof your sources. • Are you also including your own insights and support to expand, elaborate on, and develop your main points? Make sure you don’t have back-to-back-to-back quotes and so on. • Don’t begin or end a paragraph with a quote. • Don’t forget to alphabetize your Works Cited page.

  6. Quotation of 4+ lines • If you have a quote of four lines or longer: • Remove quotation marks • Indent the entire quote. • Put the citation at the very end, after the period.

  7. Example Although many view abortion as the “only alternative,” many people view this issue differently: There are no medical circumstances in which a partial-birth abortion is the only safe alternative. We take care of pregnant women who are very sick, and babies who are very sick, and we never perform partial-birth abortions. . . . There are plenty of alternatives. . . . This is clearly a procedure no obstetrician needs to do. (“Why Can’t We Love Them Both”)

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