6 Quotes and 6 Quotes Turned Into Paraphrases 1

Wilcox Senior Project English 7-8

6 Quotes from your sourcesto be used as quotes, and 6 quotes being turned into paraphrases. Due
th
MondayDecember 15 .

Review your sources, and find 6 quotes you'd like to use in your paper. You may need to type them out,
word-for-word, because .pdf files do not always allow you to copy-paste. Make sure you get it 100%
exact.
You'll be creating a new Word document in Google Drive/Docs for this assignment. Make sure you label
this well, and send me a link. For all of your quotes, type the quote, in quotation marks, with a
parenthetical citation (Smith 45) at the end, after the quotation marks.
If you have more than one author, check online for MLA format for multiple authors, and do the same if
you have no author.
Then, choose 6 other selections of the sources to be used as summaries or paraphrases in your essay,
and cite them appropriately.
For paraphrases, take the author's words and change them into your language and wording, but you keep
the same meaning and information. These will also use the citation (Smith 45) as we use above for
quotes, or if you have no author, use the article title in quotation marks ("How to Write a Great Research
Paper!"). You can always use a signal phrase: Smith, in his article Blah, Blah, Blah says that
These will be the quotes and paraphrases you'll use in your paper! Show Ms. W. as you work on these to
get feedback.
REMEMBER--anything you didn't know before you began researching would NEED to be counted
as a paraphrase in your paper, and you would want to mention the author in every paragraph
where you use information from the source.
SAMPLE:
The sample below uses only 3 of each, but it shows you what your assignment should look like.
Quotes used as Quotes:
Use the guidelines in Hacker and Sommers (111) to decide if you should use a quote:
Language is especially vivid or expressive
Exact wording is needed for technical accuracy
It is important to let the debaters of an issue explain their positions in their own words
The words of an authority lend weight to an argument
The language of a source is the topic of your discussion (as in an analysis or interpretation)
Remember to cite the quotes properly, using either a signal phrase to lead into the quote, or a citation
with all the information needed: authors name(s), or if no author is present, use the article title in
quotation marks, and the page number or paragraph number.
Quotes should be shorter (less than 2-3 lines). Only one longer quote can be used,
and it must be formatted as a block quote or an in-set quote. See our online sources.

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Quotes Turned into Paraphrases:
Show 6 more quotes, properly cited, and then, below each of the quotes, show your paraphrase with the
signal phrase and citation as if you were putting them into your paper.
Choose your 3 quotes here for a different reason than for those above: choose selections of text where

You need the information but not the wording

Youre capturing more than a sentence or two of information, and the whole paragraph might
refer repeatedly to the same source, as in a summary
Your voice and writing style must shine through, not only your ability to find the information.
You show your understanding of the quoted material by being able to translate into your own
language.
Clues for paraphrasing:

Pretend to tell a friend what you learned from your source.

Use the authors name and page number or paragraph number in the signal phrase and/or
citation.
Use different words, and different sentence structure for your paraphrased sentence.
Sample Assignment:
Sally Smith
WRIT 101-09
February 18, 2014
Quotes and Paraphrases for the Example/Illustration Research Essay
Quotes
The pressures placed on children to attain the perfect body may be completely unachievable for their
individual genetically determined shape and may explain the obsessive nature that some children develop
as they are so engrossed with achieving this ideal (Wertheim et al., 356).
Sands et al. studied 6,928 girls aged 9 to 14 years and found that attempting to emulate the appearance
of females on television, in movies, and in magazines was predictive of beginning purging behavior at
least on a monthly basis and that the risk for this behavior increased per category increase in frequency
of trying to look like females in the media (Sands et al., 356).
Women may directly model unhealthy eating habits presented in the media, such as fasting or purging,
because the media-portrayed thin ideal body type is related to eating pathology (Stice et al.).

Quotes Turned into Paraphrases

Interaction effects and post-hoc analyses revealed significant positive changes in the experimental
group's view of their overall body esteem, sexual attractiveness, and weight after a MediaTruth
Presentation, indicating that this intervention had a positive effect on women's views about themselves
(Haas et al.).

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After seeing a truth presentation about what a normal woman should look like it had a positive
effect on the womens body image, self-esteem, weight and attractiveness (Haas et al.).

Some have suggested that reducing the number of ultra-thin models and increasing the number of
average-sized models may make a positive change in women's perceptions of themselves (Haas et al.).

A positive way to make women feel better about their body image is by raising the number of
normal sized models and decreasing the number of stick thin models (Haas et al.).

Others have suggested that women should be informed of the measures that are taken to alter many
imagesin advertisements in order to clarify that humans typically do not naturally look like those
illustrations, and therefore women should not compare their bodieswith the illusions of perfection depicted
in the media (Haas et al.).

A lot of women strive for perfection to look like the models in the media because they think the
models naturally look that good, but what they dont know is time put in to make these models
look perfect (Haas et al.).

This student has used all paraphrases from one author. This is not what youd want to do in your
paper. All of your 3 sources should be represented in your Quotes and Paraphrases hereThis shows
me that youve read them all, and that youre planning on using a balance of sources in your paper.