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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise MLA 3-5
Integrating sources in MLA papers
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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.
Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)
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, edited by Dave Eggers, Houghton Mifflin, 2003, pp. 224-36.
[The source passage is from pages 232-33. Page 233 begins with Africans in the first sentence.]
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Correct. This sentence is unacceptable. The student has failed to cite the page number on which the quotation appears. The page number should be placed in parentheses after the quotation and before the final period: “ . . . years” (232).
Sorry. This sentence is unacceptable. The student has failed to cite the page number on which the quotation appears. The page number should be placed in parentheses after the quotation and before the final period: “ . . . years” (232).
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Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed the exact words of the source in quotation marks and has correctly cited the author in a signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed the exact words of the source in quotation marks and has correctly cited the author in a signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.
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Correct. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed direct words from the source in quotation marks and has used “qtd. in” to indicate that the quoted words belong to a person interviewed by the author, not to the author.
Sorry. This sentence is acceptable. The student has enclosed direct words from the source in quotation marks and has used “qtd. in” to indicate that the quoted words belong to a person interviewed by the author, not to the author.
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Correct. This sentence is not acceptable. The student has attributed the ideas in this paraphrase to the author of the passage, but the ideas were expressed by a person the author interviewed, not by the author. The following is an acceptable revision:
A Ugandan driver asserts that his culture will not survive for another decade because Ugandans are becoming accustomed to Western goods (Packer 233).
Sorry. This sentence is not acceptable. The student has attributed the ideas in this paraphrase to the author of the passage, but the ideas were expressed by a person the author interviewed, not by the author. The following is an acceptable revision:
A Ugandan driver asserts that his culture will not survive for another decade because Ugandans are becoming accustomed to Western goods (Packer 233).
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Correct. This sentence is unacceptable. Although the student has used quotation marks around the quoted passage and has cited the author and page number correctly, the quotation is not word-for-word accurate from the source. In addition, the writer has failed to use brackets to indicate a word changed from the source to fit the grammar of the sentence. The following is an acceptable revision:
An American reporter observes that the availability of Western clothing may send Africans the message that “their own things are worthless, that [they] can do nothing for themselves” (Packer 233).
Sorry. This sentence is unacceptable. Although the student has used quotation marks around the quoted passage and has cited the author and page number correctly, the quotation is not word-for-word accurate from the source. In addition, the writer has failed to use brackets to indicate a word changed from the source to fit the grammar of the sentence. The following is an acceptable revision:
An American reporter observes that the availability of Western clothing may send Africans the message that “their own things are worthless, that [they] can do nothing for themselves” (Packer 233).
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