Tuesday, October
• Agenda:
– Review Vocabulary
– Notes: Topic
Sentence &
Integrating Quotes
– Outline for
Research
th
9
• Homework:
– Vocabulary Quiz on
Friday!
– Alternate Assignment
on 10/17 (before &
after school)!
– You need a clean copy
of Lord of the Flies by
October 23rd!
SAT Vocabulary Definitions
• Intervene- to come between disputing people or groups;
intercede, mediate
• Stupefy- to overwhelm with amazement; astound;
astonish.
• Bleak- without hope or encouragement; depressing
• Ajar- neither entirely open, or entirely shut; partly open
• Demur- to make objection; especially on the ground of
ethics
• Catharsis-to purge of emotions or relieving of emotional
tensions.
• Alleviate- to make easier to endure; to lessen
• Candor- the state or quality of being frank, open or
sincere.
Body Paragraphs
Made Easy!
One quick thing…
•In a research paper:
– NEVER, EVER, EVER USE:
•I, ME, MY, WE, OUR, US
– NEVER, EVER, EVER USE:
•YOU IN ANY PAPER
Body Paragraph
Each body paragraph will include the following:
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Topic sentence
Quote 1
2 lines of commentary
Quote 2
2 lines of commentary
Concluding sentence
Body Paragraph:
Topic Sentence
• It is the first sentence in your body
paragraph.
• It will be proving one of the points
listed in your thesis-must fall in the
same order as in your thesis.
• It explains what that paragraph is
going to be about.
Topic Sentence: Example
•Thesis: Capital punishment is the worst
form of justice in our judicial system
because it doesn’t allow for
rehabilitation, it continues the idea of
killing and it could end the life of an
innocent person.
•Topic Sentence: Capital punishment is
an unfair form of justice because it does
not allow for rehabilitation of criminals.
Body Paragraph: Quotes
• Your quotes need to help prove your topic
sentence.
• Bad example: It is society’s duty, “to act in self
defense to protect the innocent " (White 1).
– this quote undermines what was said in the topic
sentence
• Good example: Often times it is found that
convicted criminals, “repent, express remorse,
and very often experience profound spiritual
rehabilitation” (“Rehabilitation” 1).
– this reaffirms my topic sentence and overall argument
Integrating
Quotes
Let’s Get One Thing Straight…
• Never let a quote “stand alone.”
• What does this mean??
– Avoid dropping quotes without an
introduction , or signal phrase. Always
surround the quote with words.
Examples
• Bad Example:
– “Capital punishment is the death sentence awarded
for capital offenses like crimes involving planned
murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, rape and
murder etc where in the criminal provisions consider
such persons as a gross danger to the existence of
the society and provide death punishment.”
– There are no words introducing my quote. There
must be a signal phrase that introduces the quote.
Quote is missing citation.
Good Example:
- According to an article in New York Times,
“capital punishment is the death sentence
awarded for capital offences like crimes
involving planned murder, multiple murders,
repeated crimes, rape and murder etc where
in the criminal provisions consider such
persons as a gross danger to the existence of
the society and provide death punishment”
(Times 1).
* Introduction to my quote. My quote is not
alone, words are by it’s side. Quote includes
citation.
Citing Quotes
When using a quote, always
cite where it came from.
In-text Citations with One Author
from a book or article:
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the
"spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
• Have author’s last name and page number
the quote came from. If there is no page
number, place the author’s last name in
parenthesis.
Citing a Work by Multiple Authors
• The authors state "Tighter gun control in
the United States erodes Second
Amendment rights" (Moore, Smith, and
Yang, 76).
• List all author’s last names in alphabetical
order and include the page number.
In-text Citations for Print Sources
with No Known Author
• We see so many global warming hotspots
in North America likely because this
region has “more readily accessible
climatic data and more comprehensive
programs to monitor and study
environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of
Global Warming” 6).
• Use an abbreviated title of the article (first
three words of title) and page number
Shortening Quotes you Want to Use:
• Ellipses are three dots { . . . } to indicate
you have eliminated some words from the
quotation. Note that there is a space
between each dot.
Using Brackets
• Brackets (square parenthesis [ ] ) allow
you to insert words of your own into
quoted material to explain a confusing
reference or to keep a sentence
grammatically correct.
• For example, sometimes when you use
quote bits, you must change the “I” in a
quote to “he” or “she” to make the quote
read smoothly into your sentence