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pas0005

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Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« on: October 14, 2012, 03:28:06 pm »
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Hi all. For text response if there is a quote in the prompt do we have to explicitly address it in the text response essay? if so, how? Do we address it in one of the body paragraphs or in the introduction?

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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 03:38:34 pm »
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You don't have to address the quote directly, moreso the reason it's placed there. Quotes in questions generally have concepts, themes and ideas in them that structure the question and you are just required to respond to those ideas appropriately.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 04:01:52 pm »
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So we don't have to indicate whereabouts the quote came from or anything?
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 04:03:58 pm »
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I know that I have never sourced the quote, or even really used it in an essay before.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2012, 04:56:17 pm »
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Well I've always been told you should address the quote at some stage. I generally just use it in passing as evidence just like any other quote.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2012, 06:34:42 pm »
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Yeah I do that as well ^. Mostly it's because I've been forced to. Like "Fuck... what quotes can I use?!... AH! THE PROMPT!"
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2012, 07:15:33 pm »
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Yeah, I have the sneaking suspicion that it would be safe to address the quote directly. What harm could it do if anything save your butt.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2012, 07:52:20 pm »
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Text response is my strong point and I hardly place the quote in my essay. Moreover, I focus on the ideas it suggests.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2012, 08:05:04 pm »
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Hmm, so many different answers. I'll ask my teachers tomorrow what they think. Doesn't necessarily mean they are write though.
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2012, 08:07:29 pm »
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Quote from: pas0005 on October 14, 2012, 08:05:04 pm
Hmm, so many different answers. I'll ask my teachers tomorrow what they think. Doesn't necessarily mean they are write though.
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But yeah, so true. My teacher says we have to and when I don't do it she never picks me up for it. Weird.  ::)
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Re: Sourcing and explaining quotes from prompts in text response?
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2012, 08:33:57 pm »
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I just think it's not expressing your knowledge if you embed the quote in the question. Examiners don't want to know that you can write the quote, the want to know that you can see the underlying message of it. They place it there for a reason, and that is to somewhat ground your essay and steer it in a certain direction.
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