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This lecture is over chapter 6
in the MLA handbook, which is documentation. . .
citing sources in a text. . .so in-text citations,
which we also call parentheticals because they're
parenthetical citations. This is also meant to prepare you for
the quiz on parentheticals,
so here's what you need to pay particular attention to:
punctuation around the parenthetical
and how and when the author's name
is used inside a parenthetical. . .
whether or not it's appropriate to use the author's name inside the parenthetical
and whether or not there should be punctuation inside the parenthetical
too. So you have two sources
for studying for this quiz. One
would be, obviously, chapter 6 in your MLA book,
and the other would be lecture 15. In lecture 15. . .
it's a text-based lecture but also includes
a link to Tegrity, and Tegrity is a software program that I use
to show you a video of me
talking to you and teaching you,
and at the same time in the Tegrity shell, what you see
is what's on my computer screen, and in lecture 15,
I actually show you in Microsoft Word. . . you can see it on screen. . .
how to compose through various examples parenthetical citations.
So to prepare for this quiz, study chapter 6
in the MLA handbook, and go to
lecture 15, read the lecture and use the link
to go out to Tegrity, so I can give you direct instruction
you can see. I suppose I would say
that this is a very important indication: how well you do on the
quiz on this
could be an indication of how well you're in-text documentation
will go in your major projects, like the fiction paper,
so again, study chapter 6 in MLA,
and go to lecture 15. Pay very close attention to this,
and for the quiz, bear in mind that a lot of what I'm going to be doing
is I'm going to be giving you multiple-choice
examples. In other words, a quiz question might be something like I'll
introduce an example with my own prose: In
"Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne writes. . .
and then we'll have a quote. I'll finish the quote, close the quotation marks,
and cite it with a parenthetical. Look around
that area. Is it cited correctly?
Is the punctuation around the parenthetical correct?
Did I put an author's name in there? Did I leave the author's name out? Which
example of the multiple choice ones is correct? You
read it over, and look at it very carefully,
decide which is the correct example, and that's the one you choose.
So that's how you should do well on the quiz. Thanks.