Exercise 12:
Documenting Sources
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Instructions:
1) Select an article the author of which supports the position you are taking for the Research Paper Project. 

2) Write a paragraph which develops one of the premises (reasons) supporting your position. Begin the paragraph with the following sentence frame as the topic sentence: "Another reason why ____________ is because _____________."

3) Then, either alluding to, paraphrasing, or quoting from the article, reference information from the article in the development of your paragraph and the reason for your position.

4) Make sure that you cite the author and source appropriately in the text of the paragraph.

5) Correctly document parenthetically the source's page number appropriately in the paragraph.

6) Below the paragraph, construct the full bibliographical entry for the source you have referenced in the paragraph following the appropriate format according to the MLA Style Sheet.

E-mail the exercise to me.
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Submitting Essays as E-Mail Attachments
It is absolutely essential to the security of your work that you follow exactly these guidelines:

1) Heading on Assignments/Email Message Texts
Place a heading on the first page of your essay in the upper left-hand corner.  Place the same information in each email message window.  The text must include the following information:

First Name-Middle Initial-Last Name
DCCCD Student ID Number
Course-Course Number-Section Number
Month-Date-Year
Name of Assignment

Example:

John R. Pointer
ID 5555555
English 2326: 9543
February 20, 2001
Exercise 3

2) File Name
Save your file exactly according to this model:

JPointer-Ex3

3) Sending Me E-mail Messages
You must include your name and identify your message type in the subject line of each e-mail you send me.  For security reasons, if you fail to do so, I will delete your message without responding.

In the subject line, include your name and exercise number just as you saved your file above.
Example:

JPointer-Ex3

If you are sending me a message that needs immediate attention, then include one of the following formats in the subject line:

JPointer-Question
JPointer-Comment
JPointer-Urgent

Responding to Your E-mails
I always respond to your messages.  However, I always open "Question," "Comment," and "Urgent"  messages first and respond to them usually on the day I receive them. 

I will respond to your assignment messages within a day or two to let you know that I have received your work and files and whether or not I can open them.  To grade them, I open assignment messages in the order in which I received them.

Length of Time Required to Grade Your Work
It usually takes me from one to two weeks to grade essay-length papers and to return them.  Shorter papers I can grade much quicker.  I will return them as e-mail attachments to my response messages.
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