Your paper should consist of
combinations of:
* Your own ideas
* Common knowledge
* Cited paraphrases
* Cited quotes
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So you are being graded on:
* Your own ideas, which emerge from synthesizing all the sources you read
* Your ability to choose great sources that support what you want to say
* Citing correctly
* Paraphrasing well
* Creating
smooth transitions between paraphrased passages, quotes, and your
own ideas
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Here's a suggestion to avoid the look of constant quotes
and citations. This paragraph ....
Hands-free phones are not any
safer in vehicles than other cell phones. 5
Crashes involving cell phones may "result from a driver's limitations with
regard to attention rather than dexterity." 6
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....can be improved by using the author's name in the paraphrase:
Redelmeier found
that hands-free phones were not any safer in vehicles than other cell phones.
He suggests that crashes involving cell phones may "result from a driver's
limitations with regard to attention rather than dexterity." 5 |
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