On teaching people how to use quotations

Along these lines: what I’ve been doing for this is 1) I had them read the handout on doing summary, paraphrase, and quotation that I usually lecture from, 2) work in groups to write summaries of what we’ve been reading, and the summaries had to include a mix of paraphrase and quotation, and citations following the rules. 3) I brought in my own summary of the next reading, and I intentionally wrote it so that it would use different techniques throughout. We went through it sentence by sentence and talked about why the technique matched what I wanted the reader to get out of the sentence, why I quoted the phrases I did, how citations worked alongside signal phrases, and so on. 4) they had to go back and revise their summaries using some of the things we talked about from my summary.

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Axé.


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