Integrating a Source Practice #1: A Single Author Print Book

A Single Author Book

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ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS

GOOD

Jill Ker Conway, critically acclaimed author,says, "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest" (176).

*technically acceptable, however, the interrupting appositive construction after "Conway" and before "says" makes the sense choppy with so many commas

BETTER

Critically acclaimed autobiographer Jill Ker Conway says, "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest" (176).

*A smoother grammatical construction can sometimes be created by placing the information before the author's name in a manner that does not create the appositive construction that requires the commas.


BEST

Critically acclaimed autobiographer Jill Ker Conway suggests in When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography, "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest" (176).

*Names the author
*Creates further context for the reader by naming the title of the source
*lists a credential of the author (an achievement, qualification, or aspect of a person's background that makes him/her particularly suitable for something)which provides the reader with a sense of the source's authority on the subject
*correctly uses a direct quote grammatical construction (a tag verb (e.g., says) immediately followed by a comma, a space, opening quotation marks, the exactly copied words,closed with a second pair of quotation marks)
*indicates the end of the sources "speaking" by the parenthetical in-text citation
*provides the correct information inside the parenthetical citation
*places the period after the parenthetical citation because the citation is considered a part of the sentence


UNACCEPTABLE ANSWERS

POOR

In the book When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography, Jill Ker Conway tells us, "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest" (176). As an acclaimed author of three books on autobiography three books on autobiography, Conway knows what she is talking about.

*inefficiently provides all the required information, but in more than one sentence


POORER

Jill Ker Conway says that "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time our imagined future will continue that quest" (176).

*fails to provide information about the authority of the source
*incorrectly uses indirect quotation construction (note the use of "that")for a direct quote


POOREST

Jill Ker Conway acknowledges that, "If we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest." (When Memory Speaks 176)

*fails to provide information about the authority of the source
*incorrectly mixes indirect and direct quotation constructions (note how the writer uses both "that" and a comma instead of using just one or the other)
*places the period inside the quotation marks instead of after the citation
*puts the wrong information inside the parenthetical citation