MLA Integrating Sources Into Your Writing

What is the correct three step process for integrating a quote into your essay?

• Signal and introduce it; summarize, paraphrase or quote it; explain and connect it

• Explain and connect it; summarize, paraphrase or quote it; signal and introduce it

• Summarize, paraphrase or quote it; explain and connect it; signal and introduce what comes next

• It doesn't matter what order you do things in, just do them all

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What is a summary?

• Copy the source material word for word without changing anything

• Put a short passage into your own words, sentence structure and style without changing the author's original meaning

• Put only the main ideas from a source into your own words using as few words as possible

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What is a paraphrase?

• Copy the source material word for word without changing anything

• Put a short passage into your own words, sentence structure and style without changing the author's original meaning

• Put only the main ideas from a source into your own words using as few words as possible

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What is a quotation

• Put a short passage into your own words, sentence structure and style without changing the author's original meaning

• Put only the main ideas from a source into your own words using as few words as possible

• Copy the source material word for word without changing anything

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When should you use a summary?

• Every time

• When you just need the main idea(s) from a source

• Never

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When should you use a paraphrase?

• Every time

• When you want to use information from a small passage

• When you can't say it better than your source did

• Never

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Why is the author's last name not included in these parenthesis: According to Susan Cain, American culture celebrates extroverts, making them more familiar and popular than introverts (182-183).

• Because this is a summary

• Because this is a direct quotation

• Because this is a paraphrase

• Because her name is used in the signal phrase

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What is wrong with this sentence using summarized research: According to Susan Cain, American culture celebrates extroverts, making them more familiar and popular than introverts. (182-183)

• There are no quotation marks around what she said

• The period is in the wrong place

• The author's last name should be in the parenthesis

• The letters pp should be in front of the page numbers in the parenthesis

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Why must you explain and connect your research to your paper?

• Clarify meaning

• Point out why meaning should be important to reader

• Analyze the research

• All of the above

It's a good idea to take notes, highlight and annotate text while doing your research.

• True

• False

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