Integrating Sources InQuizitve
Click or tap on each signal phrase in the passage below. If there are no signal phrases, click or tap "No signal phrase." In today's health care system, no one person—maybe not even you—knows exactly what drugs you're taking. What's more, no one health care provider knows how you, the patient, take your medications and at what doses. No single, up-to-date record consistently displays all of this important information. The lack of an accurate medication list, and the associated lack of centralized and expert management of your full drug regimen, has serious consequences. A 2016 study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggested that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Many of these deaths are directly related to errors associated with medications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one million visits to emergency rooms each year stem from adverse medication events. In addition, thousands of people are harmed by suboptimal medication management, or because they don't take their medications as directed. And millions of health care dollars are wasted each year in the form of duplicated or unneeded drugs and medication-related hospital readmissions.
A 2016 study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggested that The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates
Each documentation style has its own conventions regarding the verb tenses that are used in signal phrases. Match the signal phrases to the citation style, according to their verb types.
APA Dowdall (1998) observed ... Correct label:Dowdell, et. al (1998) have observed ... ---------- MLA Franklin notes, ...
Match each set of disciplines with the documentation style that it commonly uses.
APA (American Psychological Association) psychology and other social sciences CSE (Council of Science Editors) physical and biological sciences and mathematics Chicago (University of Chicago Press) history, philosophy, and other humanities MLA (Modern Language Association) English, foreign languages, and other humanities
Using Signal Phrases Drag the signal phrase verbs below into the appropriate blanks. Drinking milk as an important health practice is not something that everyone accepts without question anymore. Substitute milks are very popular on the market for various health, environmental, and animal-related reasons, but for those who can and do want to drink dairy milk, the question arises as to whether they should just because they might like it, or whether there is a health-related purpose as well. Milk producers support the idea that milk is an important component of daily health. The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), in an ... article for iofbonehealth.org titled "Milk and Other Dairy Foods Are Good for Bone Health," ___"Evidence strongly supports the benefits of dairy products for bone and muscle health. Studies have shown that bone loss is reduced and there is an improvement in muscle mass and strength with adequate dairy intake." In contrast, however, Emil Q. Javier, PhD, former president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) (Philippines), in an ... article for the Manila Bulletin titled "Whole Foods and Plant-Based Diets for Longer Healthier Lives (Part III)," the claim of increased health through milk: "American women aged 50 and older who consume more cow's milk and dairy products per person than the rest of the world have one of the highest rates of hip fractures. The only countries with higher hip fracture rates are Australia, New Zealand and those in Europe where they consume even more milk than the United States."
Concurs 1st disputes 2nd
Read the following sentences and determine whether the MLA-style documentation in each is correct.
Correct Charles Puzzanchera notes that almost half of the people arrested for arson in 2008—47 percent—were juveniles (2). Almost half of the people arrested for arson in 2008—47 percent—were juveniles (Puzzanchera 2). ------- Incorrect N/A
Which of the following are attributes of a paraphrase?
Correct Writers paraphrase when both the details and the main points of the original text are relevant. A paraphrase is usually about the same length as the original text. ------------- Incorrect A paraphrase maintains the same sentence structure as the original text. A paraphrase contains directly quoted material.
Consider the following passage from a poem about the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!—Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" Which of the following sentences accurately quotes from this passage (using MLA style)?
Emma Lazarus almost speaks for the Statue of Liberty with the words inscribed on its pedestal: "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the cost of textbooks. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from this source material.
From 2006 to 2016, "consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88 percent."
Consider the following passage from an article about academic exclusivity: "It examines some overlooked ways in which schools and colleges themselves reinforce cluelessness and thus perpetrate the misconception that the life of the mind is a secret society for which only an elite few qualify."—Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe, page 1 Which of the following sentences accurately quotes from this passage (using MLA style guidelines)?
Gerald Graff argues that colleges leave many students with "the misconception that the life of the mind is a secret society for which only an elite few qualify" (1)
A writer is doing a research project about lead and finds an interesting article with a small section about lead levels in paint. There are details that she thinks she needs to include, but the wording isn't important.
Paraphrase
A writer is reading an article on the sexualization of women in advertising. He wants to use an idea from the source and include the author's main point and associated details. What is his best option?
Paraphrase
A writer is doing a research project about whether athletes' self-talk affects their performance. He collects some interviews with well-respected athletes in his community and decides to include a particular response from one of the athletes. Would it be best to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the response?
Quote
A writer is doing a study of his campus's efforts to alleviate food insecurity for students. He interviewed some faculty and staff about what they were doing, and one of the statements by a faculty member really stood out to him as a great way to express what faculty were doing and why they were doing it. Would it be best to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the faculty member's response?
Quote
A writer is writing a literary analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird, and she finds several earlier scholarly analyses of the book that she disagrees with. She disagrees with one analysis in particular, and she decides to argue against its thesis statement. Would it be best for the writer to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the thesis statement she disagrees with?
Quote
A writer presenting an argument about athletes kneeling during the national anthem reads Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and is struck by the following sentences in his fifth paragraph: "You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being." What would likely be the writer's best option for including this material in his paper: quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing it?
Quote
Patchwriting while paraphrasing is considered plagiarism, even when the source is documented. To avoid patchwriting, which of the following should you do?
Read a passage carefully, then put it away and try to write the ideas in your own words. Look back and check for accuracy.
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the dangers of drinking and driving. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from the source material above.
Research shows that people can be affected even from very small amounts of alcohol.
The sentence below quotes from the source material above. Click or tap on any word or words in the sentence below that should be enclosed in brackets. If there are no words that should be changed, click the "No Errors" button. Steven Tammariello, author of "Can Seabiscuit's DNA Explain His Elite Racing Ability?" writes, "Seabiscuit was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep in his stall rather than exercise.
Seabiscuit
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the dangers of drinking and driving. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from this source material.
Some research uses the term 'addiction' in relation to an obsession with using social media and suggests that this might be especially problematic for young people. The research also raises the problem that unlike with other addictions, people cannot simply abandon the internet as they seek treatment because it is so integrated into everyone's everyday lives.
A writer references a source entitled "Can Seabiscuit's DNA Explain His Elite Racing Ability?" in his paper. Which signal phrase best establishes the source's authority and credibility?
Steven Tammariello, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, writes
A writer is trying to decide whether a quotation, paraphrase, or summary would be more appropriate in a particular paragraph. She wants to convey a sense of the whole of a source in a few sentences. Which of the following options should she choose?
Summary
When you quote from a source, you reproduce the source exactly, though you can omit unnecessary details or modify the quotation to fit smoothly into your text. When should you use the following punctuation marks to indicate that you've modified a quotation?
This punctuation is used to show that you have added or modified words to make the quotation fit smoothly into your text. [ ] This punctuation is used to show that you have omitted unnecessary information from the quotation. .....
A writer referencing this source material writes: In "Yes, Eating Meat Affects the Environment, but Cows Are Not Killing the Climate," Frank M. Mitloehner, professor of animal science and air quality extension specialist at the University of California, Davis, summarizes the current calls for people to eat less meat as one way to help environment causes. He adds, "Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it." This writer has effectively used signal phrases.
True
Click or tap on each signal phrase in the passage below. If there are no signal phrases, click or tap "No signal phrase." For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they've been widely described and duly applauded. "The perfect recall of silicon memory," Wired's Clive Thompson has written, "can be an enormous boon to thinking." But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
Wired's Clive Thompson has written, As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s
Which sentence better incorporates the following quotation from Antonia Peacocke's essay "Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious," which appears on page 266 of a textbook? "I believe Family Guy has its intelligent points, and some of its seemingly 'coarse' scenes often have hidden merit. I must concede, though, that a few of the show's scenes seem to be doing just what Will claims; sometimes the creators do seem to cross—or, perhaps, eagerly race past—the line of indecency.
choiceIn her essay, Antonia Peacocke argues that Family Guy provides an astute satire of American society, though she concedes that it does sometimes "seem to cross ... the line of indecency" (266)
As long as a writer introduces the source in a signal phrase, words and phrases from the original source may be used without quotation marks.
False
It's never okay to omit words from a quote, even when they are tangential to the main idea.
False
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the dangers of drinking and driving. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from this source material. t often seems that people follow others' lives on social media to the exclusion of living (and being content with) their own lives. People wake up to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat feeds and can't wait to click to the latest text and images about what 'better' things others are doing with their lives and about all the ways they are 'happier.' Some research uses the term 'addiction' in relation to an obsession with using social media and suggests that this might be especially problematic for young people. The research also raises the problem that unlike with other addictions, people cannot simply abandon the internet as they seek treatment because it is so integrated into everyone's everyday lives.
'Some research uses the term 'addiction' in relation to an obsession with using social media and suggests that this might be especially problematic for young people. The research also raises the problem that unlike with other addictions, people cannot simply abandon the internet as they seek treatment because it is so integrated into everyone's everyday lives.
What are some of the methods writers can use to avoid plagiarizing?
Correct Take careful notes while reading source material, clearly label quotations with quotation marks, and keep track of the source information. Make sure to use your own phrasing and sentence structure when writing paraphrases and summaries. Keep track of the source the original content is from. ---------------- Incorrect For web sources, be sure to include on the bibliography page just the URLs of all source material used. Copy and paste useful quotes by themselves into a Word document. It's better to go back and find the source attribution information at a later date. When in doubt, don't quote source material—that way you don't have to worry about doing it incorrectly.
Which of the following style decisions should be made for long quotations that need to be formatted in block style?
Correct Document the source. Set the quotation off from the text by indenting it from the left margin --------------- Incorrect Use quotation marks around the quotation.
What are some of the commonalities among the MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE documentation styles?
Correct Each requires acknowledgment of sources within the text and a detailed list of sources at the end of the text. Each requires basic information about the authors, titles, and publication of sources. ------------- Incorrect Each requires acknowledgment of sources within the text and a detailed list of sources at the end of the text. Each requires basic information about the authors, titles, and publication of sources.
Why do writers document sources?
Correct It helps them establish credibility on a topic. It enables readers to find the sources referred to. -------------- Incorrect It makes writing seem harder so that only experts will want to do it. It's an old-fashioned practice that writers never stopped to question.
A paraphrase does not need to be cited; the information is considered common knowledge. Only direct quotations need to be cited.
False
A student comes across the statistic that more than five million men and women worldwide make use of Planned Parenthood's services annually. He finds this information in the following article: "Planned Parenthood: Should the federal government allocate taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood?" Issues & Controversies, 19 Feb. 2016. Infobase, Because he's using just the statistic, he only needs to include this citation in his works-cited list, reference list, or bibliography. He does not need to include a signal phrase or in-text citation in his paper.
False
A writer referencing this source material writes: In "Can Pink Really Pacify?," Julie Irish, assistant professor of interior design at Iowa State University: "Yet pink toes a shaky line. Is it a benign means of subtle manipulation? a tool to humiliate? an outgrowth of gender stereotyping? Or [is it] some combination of the three?" This writer has effectively used signal phrases.
False
Consider the following passage from an article about hate speech in social media: Shortly after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, I noticed that the word 'Jews' was trending on Twitter. As a social media researcher and educator, I became concerned that the violence would spread online, as it has in the past.The alleged synagogue shooter's activity on the Gab social media site has drawn attention to that site's role as a hate-filled alternative to more mainstream options like Facebook and Twitter. Those are among the social media platforms that have promised to fight hate speech and online abuse on their sites.However, as I explored online activity in the wake of the shooting, it quickly became clear to me that the problems are not just on sites like Gab. Rather, hate speech is still easy to find on mainstream social media sites, including Twitter. I also identified some additional steps the company could take. Source Citation: Grygiel, Jennifer. "Hate Speech is Still Easy to Find on Social Media." The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2018, https://theconversation.com/hate-speech-is-still-easy-to-find-on-social-media-106020. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018. Which of the paragraphs below appropriately incorporates this source material?
In "Hate Speech Is Still Easy to Find on Social Media," Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications at Syracuse University, writes, "[H]ate speech is still easy to find on mainstream social media sites, including Twitter." Grygiel is suggesting that hate speech occurs on many popular social media sites, not just on sites known specifically for hate speech.
In "___________," Elisabeth Kubler-Ross observes, "When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to man and will probably always be" (195). Perhaps this distress comes from people's own fear of death or the signs of advancing age and frailty. ____________, "From a psychiatrist's point of view this is very understandable and can perhaps best be explained by our basic knowledge that, in our unconscious, death is never possible in regard to ourselves. It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on earth" (195). It is understandable for people to feel the emotions Kubler-Ross describes, though they should not let these feelings control their actions.
In "On the Fear of Death," Elisabeth Kubler-Ross observes Kubler-Ross explains
A writer is researching joblessness in the European Union, and he decides to use information from the chart on the right in his paper. Which of the following options is the most appropriate way to discuss this type of source material?
In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of Eurostat data, the United Kingdom had a 4.2% jobless rate compared to Austria, which was at 5.0% (see Figure A)
Consider the following passage from an article about teenagers and anxiety: A writer wants to quote from the passage above, but he wants to make it more concise without losing the author's meaning. He believes that he can take out some sentences that provide supporting details but are not needed to convey the main point. Select the correct option for doing so
Odriozola and Gee write, "Adolescence is the life stage when mental illnesses are most likely to emerge, with anxiety disorders being the most common. ... Through its warm yet heart-wrenchingly truthful portrayal of an awkward and anxious teen, Eighth Grade provides a relatable character for identifying and understanding how teen anxiety can really look and feel."
After referencing this passage, a writer includes the below paragraph in her essay. Decide whether any of the material was plagiarized, and if so, which kind of plagiarism it was. I teach at a local middle school, and we rely on parent/teacher conferences to help us connect with the family, who ideally is the support system for the children. Research shows that it's increasingly more likely that children's support system at home includes grandparents—that children come from a multi-generation home. If a child is doing poorly in school, there are many factors that could be at play. It's important for teachers to find ways to involve everyone at the home in the success of the child's education and to encourage frequent communication with teachers about co-authored strategies for helping the students.
Yes, some material was plagiarized. The writer used the ideas of a source without acknowledging and documenting the source.
Sort the following signal phrase verbs by whether they show agreement or disagreement with a source or whether they are neutral.
disagreement argue, dispute, deny, reject, disagree agreement acknowledge, confirm, concur, agree neutral assert, claim, respond, observe
A writer has included the following sentence in his paper about daylight savings time, but he isn't sure that his readers will know what biannual means. Edit the sentence to clarify the definition of biannual.
ending the biannual [twice-a-year] practice
Click or tap on any parts of the paraphrase below that borrow too much of the original language or change it only slightly. If there are no parts like this, click the "No Errors" button. Post-doc research fellow Roberta Thompson of Griffith University writes about the continued call in the media for better ways to help improve online safety. She recognizes that people have responded to this call, but that the efforts being made fall behind the creation and adoption of new ways to connect.
make the internet safer fall behind
A writer is writing a research paper about rising sea levels and wants to mention a variety of general theories in the introduction. She's found multiple passages in a few articles about sea levels rising, and she wants to talk about some of the main ideas they bring up. Would it be best for the writer to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the articles?
summarize
What does the ellipsis in the following example indicate? According to Kathleen Welch, "Television is more acoustic than visual. ... One can turn one's gaze away from the television, but one cannot turn one's ears from it without leaving the area where the monitor leaks its aural signals into every corner" (102).
the omission of a sentence or more in the middle of the quotation
A writer working on a research paper finds an article with some information that she thinks might be useful for her project. Which of the following factors is most important to consider when deciding whether to quote or paraphrase the information?
whether the exact wording of the source material is worth repeating
