Directions For this Writing Activity, you will build essential skills for planning and writing a research paper.

Prompt

To practice quoting, paraphrasing, and using in-text citations, you will quote or paraphrase from a given passage, using an in-text citation.

Read the passage.

In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn’t know it yet.

Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike—the cell phone.

Here is the source of the passage:

Anjarwalla, Tas. “Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One.” CNN, www. cnn. com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/09/cooper. cell. phone. inventor/index. html.

Imagine you are writing a research paper and want to use this source. In the box below, type a sentence quoting or paraphrasing information from this passage. Make sure to use an in-text citation.

1if katina that the first day of her internship at harper and associates would be so disastrous, she would have called in sick. she'd chosen her clothes carefully that morning: katina had dressed in black slacks, a white shirt, a vibrant turquoise jacket, and matching turquoise shoes to create a youthful but professional look. on the bus ride to work, someone had bumped katina's arm, and she'd spilled her coffee down the front of her shirt. unfortunately, the jacket couldn't hide the stain, and katina knew that the senior partners had noticed it when they'd introduced themselves. 2 one of the third-year associates, greg, had shown katina around the office and explained her responsibilities. then, he'd taken her to the copy room, handed her an enormous box of legal briefs, and told her to start making copies. just when she'd almost finished, greg had returned to tell her that he actually needed two copies of every file. after lunch, greg had katina start filing the copies. she'd been filing for an hour when greg informed her that she'd put the files in the incorrect order. katina could only hope that tomorrow would be a better day. how does the author reveal katina's initial excitement about her internship? a) by showing how katina responds to conflict b) by describing how katina felt at the end of the day c) by showing how katina interacts with other characters d) by describing how katina selected her clothes with care