Comp. 5
Ramirez
Paraphrase and Citation Practice 1
Directions: On a separate piece of paper, write a paraphrase of each of the following passages. Try not to look back at the original while paraphrasing. Include an in-text citation. Then, write the entry in the Works Cited page.
1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity."
This quote was taken from "Captain Cousteau," Audubon magazine, May 1990, page 17.
2. Cochineal extract (also known as carmine or carminic acid) is made from the desiccated bodies of female Dactylopius coccus Costa. a small insect harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands. The bug feeds on red cactus beries, and colour from the berries accumulates in the females and their unhatched larvae. The insects are collected, dried, and ground into a pigment. It takes about 70,000 of them to produce a pound of carmine, which is used to make processed foods look pink, red, or purple. Some strawberry yoghurt gets its colour from carmine, and so do many frozen fruit bars, sweets and fruit fillings, and Ocean Spray pinkgrapefruit juice drink.
From the book Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World, by Eric Schlosser, published by Houghton Mifflin in January 2001. This quote was on page 78.
3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head.
From an article in Consumer Reports magazine titled "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," (May 1990), page 348.
4. The new mood is very similar to the consciousness-raising that followed the efforts of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Designated Driver campaign. Before that, the prevailing attitude was, "Hey, what's the big deal?" The campaign hammered home a very compelling answer to that question, and the public's perception of drinking and driving. was changed forever. Getting loaded and getting behind the wheel went from being cool to being antisocial. With luck, getting behind the wheel of a loaded gas-guzzler is about to undergo the same transformation.
This is in Arianna Huffington's regular column that appears on the webpage Salon.com. I accessed it on March 7, 200 and it was written Nov. 25, 2002. It's at http:/I
Comp. 5
Ramirez
Paraphrase and Citation Practice 2
Directions: On a separate piece of paper, write a paraphrase of each of the quotes below that includes a direct quotation of some of the words. Include an in-text citation. Then, write an MLA-style Works Cited citation of the source.
Example:
1. "It is surely possible to become a 'Simpson'-style couch potato, imprisoned by the endless wash of television images, immobilized, imbecilic, impotent." From a book by John McConnell titled The Media as Babysitter McGraw Hill: New York 1989 p. 56.
Paraphrase:
As John McConnell writes, television can brainwash people watching it. Viewers are "couch potato(es) ... immobilized, imbecilic, impotent" (McConnell 56)
Source:
McConnell, John. The Media as Babysitter. New York: McGraw Hill, 1989.
1. "The whole experience of buying fast food has become so routine, so thoroughly unexceptional and mundane, that it is now taken for granted, like brushing your teeth or stopping for a red light."
From the book Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World, by Eric Schlosser, published by Houghton Mifflin in January 2001. This quote was on page 3.
2. "Jefferson, who was once one of the most revered American founders and early presidents, is now looked upon as a racist and as someone who was ruthless, self-righteous, and unconcerned for basic civil liberties."
From an article by Gordon Wood. "Jefferson in His Time" is in the magazine Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1993. The article goes from pages 36 to 51 and these words were on page 36.
3. "The secret of efficient thinking with our 'limited capacity information processors'- our brains - is to organize the information."
These words can be found on page 295 of a book by Curtis Miles and Jane Rauton entitled Thinking Tools: Academic, Pesonal and Career Applications, published in 1987 by St. Martin's Press in New York.
4. "Narration, especially oral narration, needs an audience, just as a spectacle or performance does."
Paulina Palmer wrote this. It's an essay titled "Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus," and it appears in a book edited by Sue Roe entitled Women Reading Women's Writing, published in 1987 by St. Martin's Press in New York.