1. Let's take a look at your definition drafts. Please print a paper copy or have it available as a WORD document on the screen. The Canvas view does not allow new typing. The GUM editor will need to note corrections on your paper.
You will have THREE different editors. One will edit for CONTENT. One will edit for CLARITY. One will edit for Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics. (GUM) A handout will be provided. Be sure to sign your name as the author.
2. Learn how to document your sources.
Follow this link to guidelines and sample essays for using MLA documentation in an essay
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/
Click on the link to Humanities.
Just in case you are still confused, these sites give you rules and examples for documenting your paper.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/mlaparen.html
http://virtual.parkland.edu/walker102/mla.htm
3. It is time to practice.
- You must have at least two direct quotations in your definition essay. Add one now. Show me in a separate document that you know how to give credit to a direct quotation. Hint: A direct quotation is one that you borrow word-for-word from a source. It is placed in quotation marks. The source is noted either in parenthesis or is identified in the text of your essay.
- You must have at least two paraphrased pieces of information. Add one now. Hint: a paraphrase is NOT in quotation marks, but you still need to give credit to your source with an in-text citation.
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