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Mastering the signal phrase:

Mastering the signal phrase:. Variations on a Theme. Two Fundamentals of MLA In-text Citation. No Signal Phrase. Eighty percent of kidney cancers have a good prognosis (Smith 167).

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Mastering the signal phrase:

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  1. Mastering thesignal phrase: Variations on a Theme

  2. Two Fundamentals of MLA In-text Citation

  3. No Signal Phrase Eighty percent of kidney cancers have a good prognosis (Smith 167). • Assumes reader either already knows who Smith is, or that they will do the work of looking Smith up on your Works Cited page to figure it out. • When such citations pile up, can sound very choppy.

  4. PREFERRED MODEL

  5. Purpose of Signal Phrase In a controversial column in the New York Times, op-ed writer Tom Friedman....

  6. BASIC COMPONENTS OF SIGNAL PHRASE Angela Smith notes… In his best-selling novel Angels and Demons, Dan Brown writes… In his influential article “Burgers and Fries,” nutritionist I. M. Thin cautions…

  7. Mix it Up!Variations on a Theme Graff and Birkenstein argue that… (67). As Adrian McClure notes, “…” Dorsey Armstrong, an English professor at Purdue, contends that “…” “…,” statesStephen King, “but …” (141). “…,”comments Purdue undergraduate “Cort” Lillard. Television news anchor Katie Couric offers another perspective: “…”

  8. Verbs, Verbs, Verbs! From Texas A&M Writing Center handout, “Using Signal Phrases in MLA Papers”

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