Exercise Research #1

1. Please turn to 59a 1 “Thinking about your Purpose.” What will be your purpose in your Research Paper?

2. The answer to number one is a mixture of summarizing and, in the last paragraph, arguing for your opinion. You are also welcomed to select your own purpose, as long as you clear it with me first.

3. Please see 59a2 “Thinking About Your Audience.” According to your assignment sheet, who is your audience (see the assignment sheetJ)?

4. At home, please skim the sample Research Paper on Barbie, which is located in the MLA section of the Handbook, 66d. Put a smilie here once you do that.

Exercise Research #2

1. Please read 64a, “Understanding Why Plagiarism is Wrong.” According to the blue print at 64a, what goes in these blanks? Please record the entire sentence on your exercise sheet. “Plagiarism results when a ________ fails to _________ a _________ so that the ______ and ______ of someone else are presented as the writer’s own work.”
2. According to 64a1 and 64a4, plagiarism is both an “_______ act” and can have “_______ consequences.”
3. Fill in the blanks, from 64a1. “To ________ is to include someone else’s ______, ______, or _______ in a paper and _______ to ________ what you took by indicating whose ______ it is.”
4. According to the editors of our HB, teachers assign documented papers to give students an “opportunity to__________” (copy to the word “sources”).
5. Summarize the information in the first Hint box at 64a2.
6. According to 64a4, what are the two reasons it is easier to detect plagiarism on college campuses now than it used to be?
7. According to the third paragraph of 64a4, can plagiarism cost you your job?
8. According to the fifth paragraph of 64a4, why is plagiarism so tempting?

Exercise Research #3

1. Please turn to HB64b “Recognizing Plagiarism.” According to the second paragraph, why does material from the Internet often get a student charged with plagiarism?

2. Do you get it? J

3. What are the three types of plagiarism? (hint: Hint Box at 64b)

4. Note that our exercises are exercises in plagiarism: you copy stuff out of the book w/out citations! When it is done for the purposes of classroom instruction, as it is in our case, it is cool. Put a smilie here if you get the difference between what we are doing now and doing something like this in a paper and then turning it in.

Exercise Research #4

1. Please turn to 64b1, “Common Knowledge: Information that does not require documentation.” According to the first two sentences, what is “common knowledge”?
2. Does common knowledge information in your research paper in our class have to be documented?
3. Would birth and death dates, numbers of records sold or records broken, years movies were released, or any dates such as those be documented?
4. According to 64b2, we need to acknowledge what?
5. According to the Checklist box at 64b2, is a paper that is “a string of quotations” a good thing?
6. Please see 64c, “Summarizing without Plagiarizing.” What, according to the blue lettering, is summary? Where will you use summary in our Project?
7. Please see 64d, “Paraphrasing without Plagiarizing.” What, according to the blue lettering, is paraphrase? Where will you use paraphrase in our Project?
8. Please see 64e, “Using Quotation Marks to avoid Plagiarizing.” What, according to the blue lettering, is a quotation? Where will you use quotations in our Project?
9. According to the Check list box, what are three situations wherein we use quotations?
10. In your research paper, how many paraphrases and how many quotes will you have?

Exercise Research #5

1. Please turn to 64e5, “Punctuation of Quotations.” Which pieces of punctuation are covered here (hint: answer will be six items long)?
2. If you use the word “that” to work in a quote (i.e. to integrate it) do you put a comma before the quote? (hint: look under “Comma” section in 64e5)
3. One way to think of the answer to number two is like this: “We do not use a comma if we integrate a quote into our sentence with the word that, unless the sentence happens to need one based on the basic comma rules.” Draw a smilie if that makes sense.
4. When would you use a colon to introduce a quote?
5. What can be found at 66d? Can looking at this item help you see how to handle quotes?

Exercise Research #6

1. Please turn to 64f, “Using Signal Words and Phrases to Integrate Sources.” According to the first two sentences, what is the purpose of signal words?

2. So, in other words, signal words “help you ______ the material [you are quoting] ________ and ________ into your writing.”

3. What, according to this first paragraph, happens if you do not use signal words (hint: answer is three items long & has the words “bump,” “understands,” and “control” in it)?

4. What six considerations does the HB offer for creating your transitions into quoted material (hint: look at the six squares)?

5. Examine the list of signal words listed in the Try This box at 64f. Are these words interchangeable; in other words, can you just slap any of them into your paper, or should you pick carefully?

6. List at least ten of the signal words that you are completely comfortable with using. Remember this list when you type up your research paper—because I will J

Exercise MLA Documentation #1

1. Please turn in your HB to chapter 66, “Documenting in MLA Style.” Looking at the first paragraph of the introductory matter, please complete this sentence: “The process of ____________ requires that you acknowledge everyone whose work you have _____, ______, and _______ in your research paper so that readers of your work can _______.”

2. Looking at the second paragraph of this introductory matter, documentation formats can vary based on what two factors?

3. Our class will use MLA style for our papers. Place a smilie on number three if you just read it.

4. According to 66 “Major Features of MLA Style,” what are the major features of MLA style (hint: see the blue squares)?

Exercise MLA Documentation #2

1. According to the introductory information at 66a “In-Text Citations,” what is the purpose of in-text citations?

2. Are they the same as footnotes? (getting this answer right is important!)

3. According to this passage, which of these pieces of advice is best for your handling of in-text citations? A. be brief B. be clear C. remember to use signal words and phrases D. all of these

4. See the list of signal words at 64f again. How many are there?

5. Still looking at all these signal terms, tell me if there are enough that you should have plenty for your small research paper so that you are clear but also varied in your vocabulary?

6. Now look back at 66a. How many examples/models are you given? (Hint: they’re in blue)

Exercise MLA Documentation #3

1. According to the first sentence of the first paragraph of 66c, a Works Cited page will include what?
2. Do you include works that you looked at but did not use as a source of summary, paraphrase, or quotation?
3. Are we preparing a Works Cited for our Portfolio or an Annotated Bibliography?
4. According to this first paragraph of 66c, how do you arrange the items on a Works Cited—and on an Annotated Bibliography?
5. What do you do if there is no author?
6. Copy down every word of paragraph two of 66c (through “throughout”) b/c it will affect your grade on the term project—and you may find yourself being asked about this passage in conference.
7. Look at the tan tab (labeled “11 MLA Documentation”). Under the area “Directory to MLA Works Cited,” there are four main areas: what are they? (Hint: each area is underlined in blue)

Exercise MLA Documentation #4

1. Please turn to 66c“Basic Web Site Sources.” According to this passage, what are the six main parts of most online sources?

2. What do you do if your source doesn’t fit one of the examples exactly? (The answer to this question is “Go with the basic guide on page 420.”)

3. Read the blue Try This box on page 420.

4. Put a smilie here if you accomplished number 3.

5. Skim the examples of the Internet bibliographic entries, beginning with model number 40. What two things do they all end with?