RP Exercise #A

Answer and post in the assignment section of your One Note RP notebook. This exercise to help you use the Purdue OWL site to answer questions you may have while writing this paper.

You may use any legitimate source to answer the following questions:

1. What should an introduction do? Give one strategy for drawing in the reader and grabbing their attention.

2. What are three things that you might do in your conclusion?

3. Briefly explain what it means to anticipate objections and make concessions. Where is the best place to do this in your paper? Why do you need to do this?

(Plagiarism section of the Purdue OWL site https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/ )

4. What is plagiarism?

5. When do you give credit to sources? (in-text citations)

6. How do you decide if something is "common knowledge"?

(Start here to look for MLA information in the Purdue OWL site https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ )

7. How do you include an “in-text” citation (a citation in the middle of the paper) for an article that has no author?

8. In your “works cited” section, how would you indicate a second or third book or article by the same author?

9. In your “works cited” section, how would you indicate an interview that you have conducted?

(Purdue OWL site for quotations and paraphrasing start here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/ )

10. How do you indicate a “quotation within a quotation” (something quoted that is in quotes in your source)?

11. What should you keep in mind when using long quotations (block quotations) in your paper, and when do you use them?

Read the following section on paraphrasing https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/1/

Do the exercise on paraphrasing here https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/02/