Death in LA When watching these videos, please pay careful attention to the arguments she makes. Try to pick out the problems, causes, and solutions. I do want to point out that while she does make excellent persuasive arguments, this is too unorganized for a speech. Please do not emulate this style when formatting your persuasive speech. You are free to pick your organizational format, but you must choose from the ones listed in the prompt. Caitlin Doughty Caitlin Doughty has a YouTube channel that I love. She’s an upbeat, amazing speaker who really pushes Death positivity, sustainable practices, and low-cost funeral services. Covid, however, has had such an impact on her and her staff, she uploaded two videos that are very different for her. They’re amazing. Please watch Our Funeral Home is Overwhelmed with Bodies (????????) and Have Deaths Slowed Down in Los Angeles? (????????). When finished, please respond to this discussion with answers to the following questions: What are two of the problems Caitlin outlined in her first video, Our Funeral Home is Overwhelmed with Bodies? What is (are) the cause(s) of those two problems? What are two solutions articulated in the first video? In Have Deaths Slowed Down in Los Angeles, what does Caitlin say is the problem funeral homes are facing still? Who does the government think should bear the cost of managing the corpses? What are two things Caitlin says we shouldn’t demonize? You do not need to respond to another classmate’s reply, but I do want you to take a look at what others have picked up on. It will help you to better understand persuasive messages. Solutions One of the main reasons I chose these videos is Caitlin’s solutions. When she discusses the causes of the problems she outlines, she offers actual solutions. She even goes on to provide information about why the solutions haven’t worked. For your persuasive speech, you will need to offer solutions to the problem you outline. If you provide causes, your solution must link to that cause. Again, you may choose the organizational format, but you must choose from what I’ve posted. I will require two sources for your speech that involve solutions, so if you haven’t already submitted some in your first round of speech research, try to focus on the examples in these videos to inspire you in your future research. Tags: National Guard COVID 19 funeral homes overwhelming number of deaths massive deaths storage of bodies User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

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.

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

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.