Bell Ringer Set: CitationName Mrs. Hartman, Mrs. Medley

Date: April 21, 2015
Copy/correct the sentences:
According to Frederick Douglass, his mistress “did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so.” (43)
Rule: When using an in-text citation, the punctuation goes after the parenthesis.
Date: April 22, 2015
Copy/correct the sentences:
In chapter seven, Douglass discusses how he taught himself to read and write by observing the ship-yard.
Rule: Paraphrased information also must include citations. Add (47) after the sentence to show the reader where to verify the information.
Date: April 23, 2015
Copy/correct the sentences:
Slavery is wrong because it hurts the slave owner as well as the slave. “Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman . . . Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities” (43).
Rule: Introduce your source so that a direct transition from your language to source material is made.
Date:April 24, 2015
Copy/correct the sentences:
“I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave. The slave was presented as having run away from his master three times. The dialogue represented the conversation which took place between them, when the slave was retaken the third time. In this dialogue, the whole argument in behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave” (45).
Rule: Ellipses in citations are used to omit information from the quotation to skip to the sections needed to support the thesis.
Date: April 28, 2015
Copy/Correct the sentences:
According to Frederick Douglass, his mistress “did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so” (Douglass 43).
Rule: If you have already introduced the author’s last name in the sentence or in a previous citation, it is not necessary to put it next to the page number.
Date: April 29, 2015
Copy/Correct the sentences:
“Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman . . . Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities” (Douglass, 43).
Rule: No punctuation goes in between the page number and author’s last name.
Date: April 30, 2015
Apply what you know about citations and write your own in-text citation
Date: May 1, 2015
Apply what you know about citations and write an introduction that could be used before your in-text citation.