EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers

EXERCISE MLA 3–5Integrating sources in MLA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student sample is correct, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

With the liberalization in Africa of the rules governing used-clothing imports in the past ten years, Africans, who keep getting poorer, can now afford to wear better than rags. Many told me that without used clothes they would go naked, which, as one pointed out, is not in their traditional culture. And yet they know that something precious has been lost.

“These secondhand clothes are a problem,” a young driver named Robert Ssebunya told me. “Ugandan culture will be dead in ten years, because we are all looking to these Western things. Ugandan culture is dying even now. It is dead. Dead and buried.” The ocean of used clothes that now covers the continent plays its part in telling Africans that their own things are worthless, that Africans can do nothing for themselves.

From Packer, George. “How Susie Bayer’s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama’s Back.” The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003. Ed. Dave Eggers. Boston: Houghton, 2003. 224-36. Print.

[The source passage is from pages 232-33. Page 233 begins with Africans in the first sentence.]

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EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers - 1 of 5: Packer notes “the liberalization in Africa of the rules governing used-clothing imports in the past ten years.”

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EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers - 2 of 5: George Packer interviewed many Africans who feel that “something precious has been lost” with the arrival in Africa of cheap and plentiful used clothing (233).

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EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers - 3 of 5: One young Ugandan worries that the influx of Western clothing will devalue Ugandan culture, which he says is “dead. Dead and buried” (qtd. in Packer 233).

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EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers - 4 of 5: Packer asserts that Ugandan culture will not survive for another decade because Ugandans are becoming accustomed to Western goods (233).

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EXERCISE MLA 3–5 Integrating sources in MLA papers - 5 of 5: An American reporter observes that the availability of Western clothing may send Africans the message that “their own things are worthless and they can do nothing for themselves” (Packer 233).