Group 5: citation style

"MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

1. In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author:

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

 

Example:

     Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

   *Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

 

2. In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author:

  Example:

   We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

  *“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009."

 

Text from LEO is in quotation marks:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ Visited Date: 2/22/2011

 

Specific steps:

 

"[Hardcopy]

Okuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Pocket, 1993. Print.

- Name of authors

- Title of websites or books

- Place of publication

- Publisher or Database

- Date

- Other information

[No author or editor]

Vulcan Reflections: Essays on Spock and His World. Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1975. Print.          - Title of Book or Website

- Place of Publication

- Publisher or Database

- Date

- Other information"

Text from Long Land University is in quotation marks:http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm Vistited Date: 2/22/2011

I searched a book in library. It has multiple authors, and I use it as a guide to write in MLA styles.
"Given the choice of conversion or exile, half of the Jewish population converted." (Mann, Glick, and Dodds 32)

APA
"If the author's name is mentioned in the text
         Most often, an author's last name appears in the text with the date of publication immediately following in parentheses: "

O'Hara (1982) provides an interesting insite on Aristotle.
"If the author's name is not mentioned in the text
         When the author's name does not appear in the text itself, it appears in the parenthetical citation followed by a comma and the date of publication:"

The contrasts and relations between these two types of questions can be heightened by introducing some new and interpretative terminology. (O'Hara, 1982).

"Note: If you cite the same source a second time within a paragraph, the year of publication may be omitted."
Text from LEO is in quotation markshttp://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/apadocument.html#references Date visited: 2/22/11


Book by one author: Rhode Island University
Gendler, Tamar Szabo & Hawthorne, John. (2006). Perceptual Experience. Oxford, NY: Clarendon Press.
- Name of author or authors
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication
- Publication company
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm Date visite: 2/22/11


Book by one author from LEO

O' Hara, M.L., (1982), Substances and Things, Washington, D.C: University Press of America, Inc. 
- Name of author
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication
- Publication company


Book by two or more authors


Gendler, Tamar Szabo, & John Hawthorne. (2006). Perceptual Experience. Oxford, NY: Clarendon Press.

- Name of authors (Last name of first author, first name & then first name of second author followed by last name.
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/apabooks.html Date visited: 2/22/11 
 
 
"In-Text Citation Capitalization, Quotes, and Italics/Underlining



•Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.

•If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

•When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.

•Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo.""


Text in quotation from LEO

Group : Steps for interview

1.  Brainstorm a list of questions.
2.  Compare questions with other students.
3.  Select 7 questions I would like to ask from core list.
4.  Create 7 more questions not on core list.
5.  Make a list of objectives.
6.  Talk to international students and set up a time and place to interview.
7.  Research for country report.
8.  Buy a recorder.
9.  Review my interview objectives and questions
10.  Start writing country report. 
11.  Attend first interview.
12.  Ask first interviewee if they know someone else I would be able to interview.
13.  Set up a time with another international students to interview.
14.  Write a process description and personal review for first interview.
15.  Post first interview with all four components.
16.  Attend second interview
17.  Ask second interviewee if they know another person I could interview.
18.  Set up a third interview with a new person.
19.  Write a process description and personal review of second interview.
20.  Post second interview on blog with all four components.
21.  Attend third interview.
22.  Write a process description and process description of third interview
23.  Post third interview on blog with all four components

Interview objectives for Mengfei Xu

With these interview questions, I have learned some points:
1. I gained some knowledge about other cluture.
2. Some problems of other international students that had experienced.
3. The questions that as an international student has to face.

14 questions

1. Do you think it will be easy to find a job after college?
2. Why did you decide to come to SCSU instead of studying or working in your own country?
3.How does the  climate in your home country compare to here?
4. Who takes care of the finances in your family?
5. What are your personal experiences with racism since coming to the US?
6.What were your preconceptions about the US before coming here and how have they changed?
7.What is your opinion of the American diet? Kill it.  Delicious greasy pizza
8.What are some places of interests in your country that everyone should visit if they were to go there?
9. What foods are most popular?
10.At what age did you start to learn English?
11.What sports do you play or are popular in your country?
12.What type of music is popular in your country?
13.What do people do for fun on the weekends in your country?
14.What is one experience in your life that you will never forget?

Group 5 - 20 Questions

Group 5 - 20 Questions

Country:

- What are some places of interests in your country that everyone should visit if they were to go there?

- Does your country have any interesting laws, such as how many wives a man can have or what age you can get your driver’s license?

- What foods are most popular?

- How is the architecture different from your country to the United States?

Family:

- How many people are in your family? What is the typical family size in your country?

- Do adults live with their parents after they get married?

- Is the divorce rate high in your country?

- At what age do girls normally get married in your country?

- Who takes care of the finances in your family?

Education:

- Can you describe the differences between your countries education and the United States education?

- At what age did you start to learn English?

- Why did you choose to go to school in the United States instead of another country?

- What was the most difficult thing about learning English?

- How long have you been in the United States?

- What is your dream job and which state would you like the job to be in?

Personal Life:

- What sports do you play or are popular in your country?

- Do you like or have any pets?

- What type of music is popular in your country?

- What do people do for fun on the weekends in your country?

- What is one experience in your life that you will never forget?

20 questions

1. What's your native languge?
2. How many languges you can speak?
3. Are the people from your country speak the same languge?
4. Why did you choose study abord?
5 Compare with your country, what kind of things you like them here.?
6.  Compare with your country, what kind of things you don't like them here?
7. Through which way you  get the infromation of SCSU?
8. Did the life changed when you came to USA?
9. What was your life like when you were in your homeland?
10. Since when you come here?
11. Do you like here?
12. What's the different between the weather there and here?
13. Have you ever traveled to anywhere in USA?
14. Do you have nick name ?
15. How many people in your family?
16. Are you here alone?
17. Do your native languge is English?
18. What's your aim to come here?
19. Do you think it's good to live off campus?
20. How old are you?

I would like to help with my introduction

     Introduction:

         I have problem with my introduction. my introduction always not too attractive to the reader

Body:

   I did some researches and I found 3 ways to have a good introduction.

 1.      Start with a question.

 Start with a question can engage your readers. The benefit of using a question is can be an effective technique for gaining listeners’ or readers’ attention immediately. For example, when you walk downtown and are approached by street people begging for change, do you oblige them (J. Dan Rothwell, 2009)?

 2.      Start with an interesting story.

Not only questions can gain the attention of readers, but also we can use an interesting story to begin with. Let’s say if you want to write an article about sport, then we can put a story about a famous athlete’s story, which is interested by the reader.

  3.      Start with quotation.

  A quote also can give you a good first impression of your article to your reader. Cause a  quote can make people want to know what’s the relevance with your article

Conclusion:

  All of the 3 ways are try to catch the attention of author’s article. Giving an interesting introduction can help you write a good article

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Group Outline

Introduction
 According to Wiki Media Global communication is the process of transmitting and receiving information on a world-wide scale.  Global communication plays an important role in the world.  It has various effects on business, culture, and science.

Business
         1. Exporting and importing
              A. Development of economies.
              B. Maximum benifit
         2. Larger target market
             A. Companies can transport products to more people
             B. Resources become abundant
             C.Companies can learn more about their target market and transform product to fit their needs.
Culture
         1. Learn history of other countries
              A. Reduce culture conflicts
              B. Promote interactions between people of different cultures and have many topics to share and talk about.
         2. How cultures are changing due to globalization
            A. Cultures are interacting with each culture; therefore, they are changing and sometimes evolving.
            B. The civilization has improved, people has creative mind and advanced ways to do works.
Technology
         1. Communication
            A. Internet
                 a. Interacting with people that are in other parts of the world
                 b. when someone would like to talk with a friend they can email them. they will be able to receive you rmessage quickly and reply instantly.   
                 c. people are able to sit in their couch abd talk with people of different nationalities of facebook and other forms of social networking.
           2. sicience
             A.sicience improvement               
                 a. Share differnt skills to make a product.
                 b. Sharing information that helps someone with their research
                 c. Help developing countries by importing products that teach them new skills.
             B. Doctors are able to communicate their ideas on a global level

Conclusion:
                In the past, globalization had been developing very long time. Business, culture, and technology benefits from global communcation.  Globalization has benefited every country.  Countries are improving and bettering themselves.

I would like so help with my introduction

 

  Every time when I start my papers, it’s really hard for me to start my introduction. Because my introduction always not too attractive by the reader. So I need some help with my introduction.

  I did some researches and I found 3 ways to have a good introduction. There are starting with a question, an interesting story, or using a quote. The aim of the three points is focus on gaining the attention of readers’

  First, start with a question can engage your readers. The benefit of using a question is can be an effective technique for gaining listeners’ or readers’ attention immediately. For example, when you walk downtown and are approached by street people begging for change, do you oblige them (J. Dan Rothwell, 2009)?

  Second, not only questions can gain the attention of readers, but also we can use an interesting story to begin with. Let’s say if you want to write an article about sport, then we can put a story about a famous athlete’s story, which is interested by the reader.

  Third, a quote also can give you a good first impression of your article to your reader. Cause a quote can make people want to know what’s the relevance with your article.

  All of the 3 ways are try to catch the attention of author’s article. Giving an interesting introduction can help you write a good article.   

                                                               Cited

1.      J. Dan Rothwell (2009). In the company of others. Oxford university press. P334   to P339.

2.      http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071202111634AAtzXJm