Exercise
on Citation
and Paraphrase
Paraphrase
Long
Quotation
Works
Cited
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Section
2
The following passage
is quoted from pages 444-445 of a Civil War history entitled
Never Call Retreat, published in 1965 by Doubleday &
Company, Inc. of Garden City New York. In this passage historian
Bruce Catton writes of the day in early April 1865, when the
arrival in Richmond Virginia of news of the fall of Petersburg
made necessary the Confederates’ abandonment of their capital
city.
Richmond people
remembered how that last Sunday came in as a special sort
of day. It was warm, with a mild breeze stirring the early
blossoms on the capitol grounds; the city’s churches were
crowded, not because national affairs were at crisis but
simply because it was a good day to go to church, with
high spring in the air and Easter only two weeks away.
One woman recalled it as "one of those unusually
lovely days that the spring sometimes brings, when delicate
silks that look too fine at other times seem just to suit."
A Massachusetts soldier out in the siege lines confessed
that spring reaches Virginia "with greater splendor"
than New England ever sees, and felt that there had not
been a finer day than this one since the creation. Secretary
of the Navy Mallory wrote that in all the war the city
had never looked more serene and quiet, and the woman
who had put on her best silk said that she never saw a
calmer Sunday morning – or a more thoroughly confused
and alarming Sunday evening.
The news from
Petersburg came up shortly after the eleven o’clock services
had begun, and an aide with a telegram from General Lee
extracted President Davis from St. Paul’s just as Dr.
Minnigerode intoned the words: "The Lord is in his
holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him."
The congregation took Mr. Davis’ departure calmly enough
– after all, the President might get called out of church
at any time, by almost anything – but other dignitaries
were called out later, from this church and from others,
(444) and by early afternoon the tidings had gone all
across the city: Lee was going to retreat, the government
was to move out tonight, the Yankees would take over in
the morning. Those who could leave the city were comparatively
few; for most people there could be nothing now but a
restless, fruitless stirring-about in the face of approaching
catastrophe. (445)
1. Write a paragraph
that includes a paraphrase from Catton’s passage, without quoting
directly or using his words, sentence structure, or paragraph
structure. Include appropriate citation, using whatever style
your professor suggests.
2. Write a paragraph
that quotes snippets from the passage. Include appropriate citation.
3. Construct
a paragraph in which you use a long quotation from Catton’s
passage. Include appropriate citation.
4. Now construct
a paragraph that makes a point quite different from Catton’s,
but one inspired generally by his passage. Give proper credit.
5. Write an entry
for your list of works cited that refers to Catton’s book. Use
whatever style your professor suggests.
Works
Cited
Fulwiler,
Toby, et al. The College Writer's Reference. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
N.B. Normally, this
list would also include Young's essay and Catton’s book, but
these have been omitted because the Young essay was used to
demonstrate how to do a Works Cited page earlier in this document,
and because you are asked to put Catton’s work in the proper
form yourself. The list would normally occupy a page by itself,
but in the interests of conserving paper, it has been included
on the last page of this document.
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