Anne Curzan, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, wrote an article about making citations personal. \u00a0 The following excerpt from her article depicts an insight she had while teaching her undergraduate students about citation. \u00a0Curzan said, \u201cThis summer I\u2019m teaching a course for incoming first-year undergraduate students, and this week we have been talking about how to cite articles in an essay responsibly. I\u2019m not sure exactly what inspired this, but I tried a new tack. To explain how and why we introduce other people\u2019s work into our own writing as part of creating and supporting our arguments, I talked first about how we have discussions in class.<\/p>\n
\u2018How do you refer to each other when we\u2019ve having full-class conversations?\u2019 I asked. The students quickly came up with examples such as: \u2018going off of what she said,\u2019 \u2018piggybacking off what he said,\u2019 \u2018I agree with part of what Alex said,\u2019 and \u2018I\u2019m not sure I agree with that point.\u2019 With these examples they could immediately see the way that they were building off each other\u2019s ideas, including those that they didn\u2019t fully agree with.<\/p>\n
I then introduced the idea of academic writing as conversation: When we ask students to incorporate scholarship into their academic essays, we\u2019re really asking them to be in conversation with what those scholars are saying. And while the introductions of quoted or paraphrased material are typically more formal than \u2018going off of,\u2019 it\u2019s the same idea. We\u2019re explaining how our point or interpretation relates to this published scholarship. As the students pointed out, this is a different approach for many of them than the one they adopted in high school, where they only quoted material that supported their argument\u2014where scholars who are quoted are more back-up singers than interlocutors.\u201d \u00a0To read the entire article, please click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anne Curzan, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, wrote an article about making citations personal. \u00a0 The following excerpt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-kt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}