Moving contextualization lbst 80
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- 2. *If you were really writing a paper about charter schools, and you were going to be quoting from the three sources you just looked at in the "Fun with Periodicals" exercise, why would you NEED the information I asked you for?
- 3. *You need to CONTEXTUALIZE your sources within your paper. *You need to introduce your sources of information before quoting from them. *You need to tell the reader why it is worth paying attention to what THIS PERSON/ARTICLE/JOURNAL/BO OK is saying about this issue.
- 4. *Here's a scholarly journal article on the results of a study . . . *
- 5. *in the Science section of the NYT, May 20, 2014, Natalie Kitroeff mentions it in her article, "Why that video went viral." *
- 6. ... In a study led by Rosanna Guadagno, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Dallas, 256 participants much preferred to forward a funny video than one of a man treating his own spider bite. But they were likely to share any video that evoked an intense emotional response, Dr. Guadagno found... *
- 7. *2013 article in Psychology Today ... *
- 8. * *"Some traits may be like a double-edged sword," says psychologist Scott Lilienfeld, developer of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory and an Emory University professor. "Fearless dominance, for example, may contribute to skillful leadership in the face of a crisis, or to reckless criminality and violence," he reports in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology....
- 9. * *"Even when, on the surface, they seem to be one of the best things about an individual or organization, deeply held, unquestioned strengths can be destructive, says Jake Breedon, a faculty member of Duke Corporate Education and author of Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues...."
- 10. * *"In their recently published book, Fear Your Strengths, executive developers Robert Kaiser and Robert Kaplan say that in their collective 50 years of business consulting and executive coaching..."
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- 14. * *something about the credentials of the author(s) ... executive developers ...
- 15. * * and, when it is a written source, something about the publication itself . . .
- 16. * *Not quite ... In newspapers and magazines like those we just looked at, sources are often described as simply "saying" this-or-that because they are literally being interviewed by the journalist or writer.
- 17. * *Not quite ... You need to EXPAND onthe SAYING . . .
- 18. * * be creatively descriptive . . .
- 19. *Imagine we were going to quote or paraphrase an idea from that article ... what would we say about this as our source? *
- 20. *"quote, quote, quote..." according to Michael Tisserand, New Orleans writer, in his investigative report published in the liberal commentary magazine The Nation. *
- 21. *"quote, quote, quote..." argues Michael Tisserand, author of a recent book on a New Orleans charter school post- Katrina, in his investigative report in the liberal commentary magazine The Nation. *
- 22. *how you are using the source - - your audience & purpose *what you think they need to know to understand the quality & value of that source *
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