Vocabulary 11/14/11
Citation- A quotation or reference to another work (book, paper), from another author included as a reliable source within yours. Citation is used to avoid plagiarism and to make it possible for readers to easily find the sources you used in your work.
MLA Format- A style of writing that provides writers with a way for citing their sources. The format helps build an author’s credibility and protect writers from plagiarism.
Works cited Page- Last page in your paper. The page should list the sources you used in your paper in alphabetical order, their publication date and location. This allows for an easy location of the sources used.
Annotated Bibliography- A list of the research that has been done. The list should be presented in alphabetical order and include a brief summary or annotation. The list serves as an evaluation of each source.
Quoting- To copy a group of words exactly as they appear in another text or speech. Quoting serves the purpose of letting know the reader that that piece of text is not yours and allows the author to provide evidence for a statement or argument.
Paraphrasing- To take someone else’s words and express the same meaning in your own. This helps clarify the message of the other author, but does not restate the message word for word.
Summarizing- To take the main points/ ideas of a text and put them into your own words. A summary is considerably shorter than the actual text being used as a reference but should still attribute the summarized ideas to the original author.
Plagiarism- Form of stealing in which you take someone else’s words and present them as your own. Plagiarism often leads to legal repercussions.
***I could not find who the author of the article was; in the homework then, I refer to him/ her as X***
Quoting 11/11/11
Introducing a Quotation
· Writing in the New York Times, x emphasizes that “To the dismay of Hispanic supporters, the Obama administration has not made a push for comprehensive legislation and has instead focused on a stepped-up campaign of deportation, with nearly 400,000 immigrants removed a year in 2009 and in 2010.”
Explaining a Quotation
· Writing for the New York Times, journalist x , acknowledges that there has been no “significant movement toward federal immigration reform since a bipartisan effort died in 2007”. With his/her article, x argues the comparisons and differences between the way immigration was handled by both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. Emphasizing the importance immigration had on winning support for Obama during the 2008 election, x asserts that although promising to be moderate when it came to immigration “the Obama administration has embraced many Bush administration policies, including expanding a program to verify worker immigration status that has been widely criticized, bolstering partnerships between federal immigration agents and local police departments, and rejecting a petition for legally binding rules on conditions in immigration detention.” X’s point is that although assuring Hispanic voters an overhaul of many criticized policies, Obama has actually embraced an aggressive strategy to limit immigration that relies heavily on programs started by his predecessor.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/index.html
