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ENGL 2307

ENGL 2307. 18 February 2014. Identifying texts. Your first paragraph should identify the text you are discussing. If you have a short story, poem, song, etc. use quotation marks to identify it as such. For instance, “The Old Nurse’s Tale” is in quotes.

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ENGL 2307

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  1. ENGL 2307 18 February 2014

  2. Identifying texts • Your first paragraph should identify the text you are discussing. • If you have a short story, poem, song, etc. use quotation marks to identify it as such. For instance, “The Old Nurse’s Tale” is in quotes. • If you are discussing a play, novel/novella, movie, album, etc. use italics. For instance, The Turn of the Screw is in italics. • You should provide both the title and the author’s name in your first paragraph.

  3. Integrating quotes • No quote should stand on its own. A quote that does so, such as the one below, is called a floating quote. • “There was something in them that always made one ‘catch,’ and I caught myself at any rate now so effectually that I stopped as short as if one of the trees of the park had fallen across the road” (James 53). • Instead, you should integrate it into your own sentence. Give your reader some context for the quote. • The governess continuously reacted in overly suspicious ways. For instance, she reacted to Miles by “stopp[ing] as short as if one of the trees of the park had fallen across the road” simply because he spoke to her in a different tone of voice (James 53).

  4. Citation • In MLA format, the in-text citations should have two parts. The author’s name and the page number. These citations should also be included in the sentence that it is referring to. See my example from the previous slide: • The governess continuously reacted in overly suspicious ways. For instance, she reacted to Miles by “stopp[ing] as short as if one of the trees of the park had fallen across the road” simply because he spoke to her in a different tone of voice (James 53). • Also note that there is no punctuation between the author’s last name and the page number.

  5. Transitions • Transitions are logical connections between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs. These are our friends. Here is a list of them. Use them to your advantage. • Addition: futhermore, also, further, besides, additionally, moreover, again, next • Exemplification/Illustration: For instance, specifically, to illustrate, for example • Comparison: in the same way, likewise, similarly • Contrast: yet, nonetheless, however, but, notwithstanding, though, although • Clarification: in other words, to clarify, that is to say

  6. Thursday • 1.) Turn in draft of the midterm essay. • 2.) Read the Dickens story “No. 1 Branch Line” from the Penguin Anthology.

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