Senor Paper: The Basics of Citing 1/11/19

As usual today was a nothing independent working day. Students are advised to use class time to research articles, and draft the Literature Review that is now due on Tuesday thanks to Kenny Olekers. But before that, Mr. Rivers gave us another mini lecture on citing evidence and how it should look. We will have a real lecture on APA and MLA formatting on Monday. The following is a short breakdown on his lecture along with short excerpts taken from a full breakdown provided by Mr. Rivers on google classroom.

Literature Review Structure Breakdown

Introduce major speakers / topics / events, Same page evidence, introduce credibility

Distill conversation, elaborate: what research are they doing / trying to prove today? You should not "hear the quotation marks" Whenever you cite.

Excerpt: According to Joan Walsh, in November 2016, “... an astonishing 16,000 women have contacted Emily’s List, which works to elect pro-choice Democratic women, to say they want to run,” (Walsh). 

How does Cinema contribute to this conversation?

Is research responding to cinema choice and / or is cinema choice responding to research?

Excerpt: This topic is one that is often discussed among scholars as well as politicians, and scholarly reviews of this issue have been written by the likes of Lutfi Sunar, and Rob Boston. Sunar’s distinguished text, The Long History of Islam as a Collective ‘Other’ of the West and the Rise of Islamophobia After Trump, says, “in particular, the fear of Islam, which carried Trump into power [and] seems to have turned into a ‘reason’ for all kinds of violence and oppression against Muslims both domestically and abroad”(Lufti, 2017). 

Which films characters plot points themes metaphors allegories episodes seasons will this paper investigate?

Excerpt: Researchers in Pakistan studied 479 students from 10 public high schools and found that machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism were positively related to bullying (Gul-E-Sehar & Fatima, 2016). 

After all this, we had the rest of class to our selves. To help put all of this into perspective, choose BlacKkKlansman as the film I would use in my Literature Review and my academic lens is comparing and contrasting racism in the United States history. If I wanted to quote anything to support this lens it would look like this

In an article by Neil Genzlinger, Genzlinger brings up comedian Kamau Bell who has a limited documentary series on CNN called the United Shades of America. In one episode it's quoted by Genzlinger that Bell believes "learning about America means sometimes reaching across the aisle, he says in introducing the episode, and this week I'm reaching way across the aisle to the Ku Klux Klan. Hopefully when I'm done reaching, I still have my hand."(Genzlinger, 2016)

To be clear APA formatted quotes have the year in the citation, and you might be doing your paper in MLA. If you want to paraphrase just write down your sentence in without quotation marks, and drop the citation at the end. All in all, I hope this brief summary helped with any citing trouble you might have had.