ESL 015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Online Writing Lab, Thesis Statement, Apa Style
29 Apr 2018
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Thursday September 7, 2017
Final draft of Extended Definition due tonight at 11:00pm on
BOTH Turnitin.com AND Canvas
Source (or resource) = other peoples’ original thoughts, ideas, writings, etc.
Always, when drawing upon sources for your writing,
whether summarizing, paraphrasing or quoting, you
must acknowledge the source with an in-text citation
and include the source in your references page.
✓ Purdue Owl is your best source for all things relating to references and citations etc. etc.
Is it plagiarism? What needs cited? What does not need cited?
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/2/
Quality of Internet and Other Sources:
Distinguish between fact and opinion. Where did this information come from? Should we pick
up a sandwich off of the street and eat it without knowing where it came from? Of course, not.
It is the same with information we use for research. We need to verify that the source and
information is of “academic quality”.
Quality of Sources Tutorial:
https://libraries.psu.edu/services/research-help/evaluating-information
An excellent summary of how to determine the quality of sources:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
See this for an appropriate use of Wikipedia:
https://libraries.psu.edu/how-use-wikipedia-tutorial
I will be opening up another page on Canvas entitled, “Writing With Sources Stuff”.
There will be a bunch of documents posted there. Please spend some time studying them.
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Document Summary
Final draft of extended definition due tonight at 11:00pm on. Source (or resource) = other peoples" original thoughts, ideas, writings, etc. Always, when drawing upon sources for your writing, whether summarizing, paraphrasing or quoting, you must acknowledge the source with an in-text citation and include the source in your references page. Purdue owl is your best source for all things relating to references and citations etc. etc. It is the same with information we use for research. We need to verify that the source and information is of academic quality . An excellent summary of how to determine the quality of sources: https://owl. english. purdue. edu/owl/resource/553/01/ See this for an appropriate use of wikipedia: https://libraries. psu. edu/how-use-wikipedia-tutorial. I will be opening up another page on canvas entitled, writing with sources stuff . There will be a bunch of documents posted there. The researched compare and contrast essay (10%) and poster presentation (5%) (see chapter 19)
