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Level 4

Sources, Works Cited, and Proofs

Purpose:

• Add Sources and a Works Cited to the paper

Sources

1. Add Six Sources
• 1 of the 6 sources will be the Walter Ong qoute in the Introduction.
  • Quote a passage/sentence concerning the idea of Second Orality from one of Walter Ong's writings OR from someone else's article onthe web that discussed Ong's idea of a Second Orality.
  • The other five sources will be scattered throughout the analysis paragraphs
    • You choose which of those nine paragraphs will have a source or not.
  • These five quotes are not supposed to "support" or "prove" what you are saying (that's an essay thing)
  • These five quotes should add to your discussion of orality or literacy in the nine paragraphs.
  • For instance, I could choose to add a quote to the fourth pairing: Conservative versus Progressive; however, the source I choose MUST be from a source that is discussing Orality OR literacy OR second orality in relation to either progressive or conservative. I cannot just find any old article discussing thw words conservative or progressive.
• Set up the quotes with a proper lead-in sentence.
  • There are many ways of integrating quotes in a paper.
  • We are using one way, and only one way, the whole term.
  • Lead-in sentence: "quote."
    • The Lead-in sentence must read as a Full Sentence AS IF the colon is a period.
  • The aim of the lead-in sentence is to give the general idea, the gist, of the quote's main point.

  Example of setting up quote:

  • A full sentence giving the first word, usually the author's name, from the works cited citation, and maybe the article name, and the general idea of the quote that will follow: "the actual word-for-word quote" (page number).
  • Alan Crowe in his article "Doggy Friends" suggests that when dogs first meet, they should do so in a place new to both of them: "Introduce the dogs in a neutral location that is unfamiliar to both dogs, such as a park" (12).

  What we are NOT doing: (Name page number)

  • We are not using the more common quotation style of giving the name and page number after the quote.
  • Typically, you have seen, or used, a name and page number after a quote, like this:
    • "Blahty-blah blah" (Smith 103).
  • Since we are stating the author's names IN the lead-in sentence, the only information at the end should be the page number, if you have one.
  • Do not give any page nuyber unless the source lists the numbers on each page--don't guess.
  • One current general convention is that website articles do not have to have page numbers listed after quotes.

Works Cited

• You can use Purdue's Online Writing Lab (Owl) or my color-coded abridged version on Inverseintuition.org:
  • OWL
  • InverseIntuition.org
• If you use a citation maker, or any other source than the two listed above, and the citation does not match one of the two sources above, the citation is incorrect.
• If I mark something wrong on your Works Cited, but you think it is correct, your only defense is to show me how you followed a page on OWL or on InverseIntuition.org

The point of the quoted sources

• This is not essay writing
• Sources are used to ADD other voices to the research paper
• Sources in research are not to help you prove your point.

Proofs

• Submit a second word document with your paper.
• This is the proofs document
• The file name needs to be LastnameMLApaperProofs.docx
• The proofs document must have 6 screenshots.
• Take a full screen shot (tabs, taskbar, etc) of the area of an article you pulled a quote from. (Do not crop the photo; do not just copy and paste the text)
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