Step one: Read the above article (click on the image to link to it).
Step two: Capture the Heart: Summarize the heart of this article's main point(s) in three sentences or less.
Step three: Answer the following questions about how in-text citations are used within this article:
- Where are quotes being integrated?
- How are quotes being integrated?
- Identify signal phrases that are being used.
- Where would you need citations?
Step Four: Claim & Support
- Make a claim about something the author is asserting and integrate a direct quote using a signal phrase and parenthetical citation.
- Make a second claim and integrate a direct quote in a different way to support your claim.
Helpful Hints:
- Refer to the handout "The Lowdown on In-Text Citations" to help you with this (also linked on this libguide page).
- Refer to page 20 of the DP Academic Skills Handbook for "How to Integrate Quotes."
- Refer to page 24 of the DP Academic Skills Handbook for "The Language of Analysis"- a list of verbs you can use to express yourself more powerfully when doing analytical writing.
