07.18 - 07.21
This is now the second week of English Composition 1301. We were taught new learning materials such as describing music but also things we had already learned through previous years. This week, we were taught the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism. Paraphrasing is expressing the same message in different words while plagiarizing is expressing the same message in the same words by directly copying information from any source word for word without giving them credit. I gained a lot of knowledge on how to accurately write MLA style papers with citations. It helped me learn how to cite quotations properly and how to use quotations in the text of my writing. After the quote, we put the page number where get got the quote from and then put parentheses around the page number. I also learned that signal phrases provide clear signals to prepare the readers for the quotation. Using signal phrases blends the quote into the sentence, making it easy to be read smoothly and that is why it is important to have a signal phrase before a quote or after a quote.