ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING Serial ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

Learning targets: ELA.W.9-10.8 I can integrate evidence into my Op-Ed s to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following journalistic format for citation.

INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS Now that evidence has been selected to support your claims, it needs to be included in your writing in a way that: Credits the source where the evidence was originally published. Provides context so that your reader understands why this evidence is relevant and credible. Seamlessly blends the quotation into your writing that is smooth and natural.

Provide clear signal words

Begin with an attribution that provides the author, title, and a brief context. This can be a sentence by itself, or it might be included at the beginning of the sentence that includes your quotation. In his op-ed, “South Africa’s World Cup Illusions,” T.O. Molefe discusses the economic after-effects of hosting the event in 2010. He claims that South Africa’s experience could be a “cautionary tale for Brazil,” who has also spent heavily on new stadiums which may never pay for themselves. OPTION #1 In his op-ed, “South Africa’s World Cup Illusions,” T.O. Molefe discusses the economic after-effects of hosting the event in 2010, highlighting the country’s “difficulties in turning the venues into self-sustaining public venues.” OPTION #2

Your quotations have to be introduced or blended with your own writing Your quotations have to be introduced or blended with your own writing. NO DROP/STAND-ALONE QUOTES!!! Your writing should NEVER contain a sentence that is 100% someone else’s writing. This can be jarring and/or confusing to your reader. .” In his op-ed, “South Africa’s World Cup Illusions,” T.O. Molefe discusses the economic after-effects of hosting the event in 2010. “South Africa’s experience four years after hosting a successful World Cup is a cautionary tale for Brazil, which has also spent heavily on building brand-new stadiums, often in remote areas, that may rarely be used again.”

Integrating a Complete Sentence This should be used sparingly – only when you actually need the whole sentence to support your claim. Instead of always using writes or says, try to use stronger verbs, such as asserts, insists, argues, believes, defines, admits, claims, points out, observes, or concludes. Punctuate/capitalize like you would dialogue Explaining that most South Africans have mixed feelings about the World Cup, Molefe confesses, “For the most part, the memory of hosting an outwardly perfect global event still evokes a hallowed glow of national pride, even though, inwardly, the event failed to deliver the promised boost to our economy.”

Blending a Quotation Fragment within Your Own Sentence This is a more precise way to integrate quotations because you can choose the specific evidence that most supports your claim. No extra punctuation or capitalization is needed – only use whatever the sentence calls for naturally. Your sentence still has to be grammatically correct – pay attention to subject/verb agreement, verb tense, run-on sentences, etc.

Blending a Quotation Fragment within Your Own Sentence Molefe hopes that the World Cup will be more of a long-term success for Brazil and that “Brazilians will be tougher and demand more of their leaders.” The “near-universal love for soccer” allows FIFA to “pocket the profits while the host nations pick up the bill.” One of Molefe’s main criticisms is that the money spent on building stadiums for the World Cup “could be better spent on the city’s more pressing needs like sanitation and houses for the poor.”

High Tech Texts Since we’re creating these documents electronically and most of you will publish your Op-Ed on the internet, we can use hyperlinks to link to the original articles, and omit the title of the original source from your text (removes some clunkiness). In his op-ed, “South Africa’s World Cup Illusions,” T.O. Molefe discusses the economic after-effects of hosting the event in 2010, highlighting the country’s “difficulties in turning the venues into self-sustaining public venues.” BECOMES… T.O. Molefe discusses the economic after-effects of hosting the event in 2010, highlighting the country’s “difficulties in turning the venues into self-sustaining public venues.”

Don’t Just Leave the Quote…Explain It.

Formative Using one quote from the Serial transcript, practice writing integrating citations by Introducing with author, title, context with the sentence by itself option. Introducing with author, title, context with integrated into the same sentence option. Next, have your elbow partner check it.

Outline and Drafting Complete your outline Begin your first draft Rough draft due next class!!!! This is part of your revision standard on your final exam rubric!