Reading Assignment for Section 4.2
Read the following subsection from our online textbook: Section 4.2: Quoting and Paraphrasing.
What You Will Learn
In this section, you’ll understand the appropriate use and importance of quotations and paraphrasing in academic writing. You’ll learn how to skillfully select quotes to add clarity or authority while maintaining the flow of your paper and effectively integrating quoted material into your narrative. You’ll develop proficiency in paraphrasing and summarizing to capture the main points of another author’s ideas in your own style, ensuring a unified and consistent narrative. Additionally, you’ll master the balance between original ideas and sourced content, ensuring proper citation and credit, and achieving a harmonious blend of your voice with quoted and paraphrased material.
Student Learning Outcomes for Section 4.2
- SLO 1: Understand the appropriate use and importance of quotations and paraphrasing in academic writing, including the skillful selection of quotes to add clarity or authority, maintaining the flow of the paper, and effectively integrating quoted material into the narrative.
- SLO 2: Develop proficiency in paraphrasing and summarizing to capture the main points of another author’s ideas in your own style, ensuring a unified and consistent narrative, and learn the nuances of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing for concise and coherent academic writing.
- SLO 3: Master the balance between original ideas and sourced content, ensuring proper citation and credit are given, and achieving a harmonious blend of the writer’s voice with quoted and paraphrased material, while maintaining clarity, flow, and the integrity of the quoted sources.
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