Ciencia

Academic Writing II
STUDENT’S NAME: Diana Duran


1. Write a paraphrase of each of the following passages.
Example:
✓ Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes,and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limitthe amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes. Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976): 46-47.
In research papers students often quote excessively,failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46-47).
✓ Thetwenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled thecities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basiebecame the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with thepast. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
People in the twenties knew local bars were liquor was sold, spite drinking was not legal. At that time, there was organizedcrime in the cities but, police did not have enough power to reduce and act against it. Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie were the leaders of the youth. While Jazz spread throughoutthe land, Classical music was being forgotten. With her bobbed hair and short skirts, the flapper symbolized in the twenties the America´s break with the past.
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