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Quoting a source

When Orlov came upon some of Lane’s language that she felt was vivid and concise, she decided that quoting Lane’s exact words would be effective.

ORIGINAL SOURCE PASSAGE

As we’ll see in this chapter, there are a number of reasons—some of them quite compelling—for surveillance of employees. A major problem, however, is that technology makes it possible for employers to gather enormous amounts of data about employees, often far beyond what is necessary to satisfy safety or productivity concerns. And the trends that drive technology—faster, smaller, cheaper—make it possible for larger and larger numbers of employers to gather ever-greater amounts of personal data.

—Lane, The Naked Employee, pp. 3-4

ORLOV’S NOTES ON PASSAGE

Surveillance can go too far.

“Faster, smaller, cheaper”—strong, surprising language for invasion of employee privacy.

ORLOV’S INTEGRATED QUOTATION

While surveillance of employees is not a new phenomenon, electronic surveillance allows employers to monitor workers with unprecedented efficiency. In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees’ privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, psychological exams, lie detector tests, and instore video surveillance. The difference, Lane argues, between these old methods of data gathering and electronic surveillance involves quantity. He notes that employers can use this technology to collect significantly more information from workers than they need. Lane also contends that “the trends that drive technology—faster, smaller, cheaper—make it possible for larger and larger numbers of employers to gather ever-greater amounts of personal data” (3-4).

HIGHLIGHTS OF ORLOV’S PARAPHRASE

Orlov uses a signal phrase (In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes) to show that the ideas that follow are Lane’s.

Following the signal phrase, she paraphrases the source to provide background information.

At the end of her paragraph, she quotes Lane’s striking and succinct language and places Lane’s exact words in quotation marks.

Orlov is careful not to let the source overwhelm her own writing but rather uses the source to support her analysis.

Orlov places the page numbers in parentheses to show where the passage can be found in the source.

Works cited entry for source

Lane, Frederick S., III. The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy. New York: Amer. Management Assn., 2003. Print.