Exercise
words in context
from the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. some
words will not be used
maelstrom
impotent
impediment
diaphanous
bestial
emendation
gloat
antithesis
labyrinth
loren, the new manager, is the
of compassion, just
yesterday, she fired two people because they were late to work once this
week. corporate headquarters, upset with declining sales, appointed loren
to replace and
manager who had been spotted on the golf
course during work hours one too many times.
loren's many changes and
to company guidelines caused
ain]
in both the warehouse and the salesroom. employees
faced evaluations and new instructions that drove many to resign; however,
it was all just a part of loren's plan. the people who quit, she reasoned,
were just
to meeting the expected monthly profit margin
loren spent the first two weeks familiarizing herself with the
- of shelves and palettes in the warehouse. shreds of textiles
littered parts of the packaging area; some were helty snippets of wool, and
others were
scraps of silk that hovered in the gust created
by passing forklifts. she occasionally stopped to introduce herself to
the workers, but she ceased her introductions after noticing the regular
look of
on workers' faces as they scrambled to look busy or
stumbled over the proper responses to her questions. after the first round
of resignations and firings, most of the workers were intimidated by loren's
management techniques

what: when quoting a source, use the author’s words verbatim, or word-for-word. this means you shouldn’t change any grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. put quotations around the words to tell your reader where the quote begins and where it ends.

you also need to acknowledge the author. for example, if using mla format for your research paper, you should have in-text citations with the author’s name and page number listed at the end of each quote.

when: use quotations to provide concrete examples to support your claims. using direct quotations is a great way to build your credibility on the subject. it’s also a good idea to quote your source when the author states things in a powerful way. if you think he or she said it best, then use the exact words to share the ideas.

example: in the short story “a jury of her peers”, mrs. hale compares mrs. wright to her caged bird, saying “she—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. how—she—did—change” (glaspell).

paraphrasing

what: paraphrasing differs from quoting because you restate the passage in your own words. since you don’t use the author’s words, you don’t need to use quotation marks. however, you still need to acknowledge the author for his or her ideas.

when paraphrasing a text, you should communicate the full meaning of the text; don’t change the meaning. it can be a condensed version of the text, or it could end up being longer than the source it’s paraphrasing.

when: you use paraphrasing when you take notes, or explain a chart or diagram to someone. paraphrasing highlight the important parts of a larger text. it also allows you to simplify the ideas for your readers.

example:

original: “it was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in dickson county. but what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unsifted” (glaspell).

paraphrase: as mrs. hales walks around mrs. wright’s home, she notices that the kitchen is in disarray as if she was in the middle of baking bread (glaspell).

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.