COM 126 Final Project Part One Milestone Two Analysis Worksheet Name: Analysis Elements: Resource List the resource in proper APA formatting. Summary What was the author’s main point? Support How does the resource relate to your topic? Does it support the position you have taken on it? Quotes Are there any quotes from the resource that you could use to help make your point? Include them here. Resource 1 Analysis Elements: Resource List the resource in proper APA formatting. Summary What was the author’s main point? Support How does the resource relate to your topic? Does it support the position you have taken on it? Quotes Are there any quotes from the resource that you could use to help make your point? Include them here. Resource 2 Analysis Elements: Resource List the resource in proper APA formatting. Summary Resource 3 Analysis Elements: What was the author’s main point? Support How does the resource relate to your topic? Does it support the position you have taken on it? Quotes Are there any quotes from the resource that you could use to help make your point? Include them here. Resource 3 Analysis Elements: Resource List the resource in proper APA formatting. Summary What was the author’s main point? Support How does the resource relate to your topic? Does it support the position you have taken on it? Quotes Are there any quotes from the resource that you could use to help make your point? Include them here. Resource 4 Analysis Elements: Resource List the resource in proper APA formatting. Summary What was the author’s main point? Support How does the resource relate to your topic? Does it support the position you have taken on it? Quotes Are there any quotes from the resource that you could use to help make your point? Include them here. Resource 5 COM 126 Final Project Part One Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric Overview: The purpose of this milestone is help you organize your resources for support of your final project. Whereas in the previous Resource List activity you were simply gathering resources, for this assignment you will be reading each one of these resources and summarizing the content. This is the next step in preparing your final project justification paper and gathering quotes and usable information for your final presentation. Prompt: Use the analysis worksheet and fill out each of the boxes in each table. You must complete this activity for at least five resources, but feel free to include more as necessary for your final project. Be sure to include the following critical elements: ? ? ? ? Cite the source in APA style. What is the author’s main point? Summarize it in one to three sentences. How does this resource support your final project? Are there any quotes you would like to use within your final project? Include them in your worksheet. Remember, you need two to four quotes in your final justification paper and presentation. Guidelines for Submission: Submit your filled-out analysis worksheet as a Word document. Be sure to include your name within the document and the document name (e.g., ‘LastName_COM126_Analysis_Worksheet.docx’). Critical Elements Citation Exemplary (100%) Includes error-free citation for each resource Summary Clearly and concisely summarizes the author’s main point Comprehensively explains how the resource supports position on chosen topic Support Quotes Identifies two to four quotes that capture the essence of stance on chosen topic Proficient (85%) Includes citation for each resource, with some minor errors Summarizes the author’s main point Explains how the resource supports position on chosen topic Identifies two to four quotes to support stance on chosen topic Needs Improvement (55%) Includes citations, but there are major errors and/or missing citations for some resources Briefly or incompletely summarizes the author’s main point Incompletely explains how the resource supports position on chosen topic, or relationship is tangential Identifies two to four quotes to support stance on chosen topic, but quotes are inadequate or lacking Not Evident (0%) Does not include citation for any resource Value 30 Does not summarize author’s main point 35 Does not explain how resource supports position on chosen topic 25 Does not identify two to four quotes to support stance on chosen topic 10 Total 100% Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 3 pages Tags: CNN effect Al Jazeera effect American foreign policy international communications political relations 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.



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