CLEP COLLEGE COMPOSITION MODULAR LESSON 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024

Source Material -Must be reliable, authoritative and factual -Internet can be harder to validate -You need to be clear about where you are getting your information -Must not be biased -Four Criterias: *Relevance *Point of View *Reliability *Date of Publication Primary Source -Type of Source -The actual item giving the information Brainpower Read More Secondary Source -Type of Source -An essay about a primary source Block Quotation -Used for quotes longer than 4 lines in MLA -No quotations mark -Indented 10 spaces -Page number is listed at the end in parentheses. It is placed after the period Brackets -Used when you need to add information to a quote -Used for clarification -Separates your information from the source information Paraphrasing -Between directly quoting and summarizing -Contains more information than a summary, but does not contain exact words like a quote -Restating the information in your own words -If you only change a few words, use brackets Direct Source Attribute -Includes the source's name in the passage -Source name is included within the text and not in the quotation -"Dr. Jacqueline Satterfield asserts that..." MLA (Modern Language Association) -One of the three major citation formats -Typically used for the humanities -Simple and concise -Brief paranthetical documentation within the text is linked to an alphabetical works at the end -Typically uses endnotes to cite sources -Usually it is the author's last name and the page number -(Smith 118). -Jennifer Satterfield, Ph.D. suggests that "..." (118). -American Red Cross "..." (American 118). MLA Works Cited Book: Author (last name first). Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Medium. Website: Author. "Title of Article." Title of Web Site (homepage). Date of Format Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization sponsoring site. Date last accessed. <URL>. Bibliography Contains all the information you consulted APA (American Psychological Association) -One of the three major citation formats -Used mainly in the social sciences, psychology and sociology -Has a bibliography instead of a works cited -Summaries and paraphrases do not need a page number -Author's last name (date of publication) -"direct quote" (page number) -So little success has been achieved in treating juvenile offenders that researchers like Edlestein (2003) have concluded that "nothing works" (p. 224). APA Works Cited Book: Author. (Date of Publiation.) Title. City of Publication: Publisher. Article: Author. (Date of Publication.) Title of Article. Name of Periodical, Volume and issue number, page numbers. Chicago Style -One of the three major citation formats -The least used style in college -More traditional style of citation -Used by historian and in books or magazines dealing with history -Consists of superscript numbers in the text of the passage -The numbers either refer to a note at the foot of the page (footnotes) or a note at the end of the paper (endnotes). Chicago Style Works Cited 1. Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon (New York: Random House), 79. 2. Ibid., 85. (used for consecutive notes) 6. Gopnik, Paris, 109. Rhetorical Analysis -Analyze the writing -The author's writing style -Critical Thinking -Style -Purpose -Audience -Situation