ENG 112 Online: Varieties of Writing

Essay 1 Lecture 7: Parenthetical Citations

December 19th, 2007

Supplement Lecture Text:

Hard copy example: In his article “Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the First Year of College” Micheal Ferguson, AAC&U senior staff writer and associate editor of Peer Review, argues, “Common reading programs also supplement small-group discussions with other orientation activities. Campuses sometimes introduce new students to library research by showing them how to locate resources related to the common reading, its author, and the issues it raises” (9).

Online example: In his ONLINE article “Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the First Year of College” Micheal Ferguson, AAC&U senior staff writer and associate editor of Peer Review, argues, “Common reading programs also supplement small-group discussions with other orientation activities. Campuses sometimes introduce new students to library research by showing them how to locate resources related to the common reading, its author, and the issues it raises.”

Hot Tip!: For this essay, you will ONLY be using an article from our textbook. Therefore, you will be using the Hard Copy example ONLY. For future essays, you will need to know how to site online sources.

For more information on parenthetical citations (of hard sources and online sources), refer to pages 564-571 in your Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers.