Chapter Three Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism

In chapter three of Krause, “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism”, Krause explains the simple procedures not to get into trouble when using different techniques of writing. First off, the main point is to make sure when you quote, to give credit to your information that you are sharing. When we are summarizing a book or a story of some sort we need to make sure that we just give that facts and stay away from quotes during a summarization. Also because a book or paper has a summarization already we do not cut and paste from this because it is not our own. To have a good summarization we have to make sure we read the text thoroughly. Krause then goes on the explain how to quote and paraphrase, I felt like the quote information was just a review for me but I did not catch a lot of paraphrasing information. When quoting it is best to use it when, the authors words are going to help your point. In this case paraphrasing may not be the choice to use because someone could take what you are saying differently then you would like the reader too. But with each quote that is used you have to have a proper citation and cited source in your paper. At the end of this chapter Krause explains simple ways not to plagiarize. Plagiarism is unaccredited us of words or ideas of an author or a source that you are using. There are different types of plagiarism. Purposeful, which is turning in someone else’s work that is not yours. Accidental plagiarism is improper citing or summarization. Whether it is purposeful or accidental it’s all wrong. Students have to make sure that they credit all of there information and that they cite it correctly. At the end of this page Krause gives examples of different types of quotes and sources being cited in different formats which was useful to see.

Chapter six “The Annotated Bibliography Exercise”

I think that Krause started this chapter with one of the most important things. He explained to me what I was reading about and what that is. An annotated bibliography is not used that often in high school if even at all. He talks about things that I have messed up on before and have now cleared up. I did not know that it was plagiarism to take the summery and use it as yours. Also this is supposed to be a short summery not a book. The next important thing to me as well as a lot of other students is, why? Why would we waist our time to write extra summaries and change what we have already learned in the past. What I took from Krause’s chapter six, is that this can be a way to take care of keeping track of all of the sources that you are thinking about using and that you have. With these summaries you are able to remember what that source had as information. Also this is another way to get your citations completely done so that you are able to copy and paste your own work. When using an annotated bibliography man students are going to ask how many sources are needed, I feel the best way to answer this is the more the better, there is no need to have ten sources for an eight page paper, but if you used them, write them down. With our assignment coming up of doing an annotated bibliography it was nice to have Krause describe how to go through the process of writing one. I am one to want to get everything done at once, and Krause says that this is not the way to go about doing this bibliography. Having read this chapter before our assignment was due is going to help a lot. I am glad that I have this information in front of me.

Reading Response “Research Essay”

In chapter ten, The Research Essay, Krause first talks about why we call it a research essay not a research paper. He says that the vibes that we get from the word papers is not positive, so when kids hear essay, they feel they can be more creative. He also explains that most college papers need research, so every paper is a research paper. His last point was that research can mean so many different things in different fields. When going through our papers we need to be asking ourselves questions. Questions are a way to make sure that everything that needs to be answered, is. Also we need to be able to look at our purpose and think of how we need to write it. Who the audience is going to be will change the way you write anything. This is also know as your voice. Through the end of this chapter, Krause goes through every step including editing a paper. He makes sure that each step s explained and tells why it is important. The introduction is to get the readers attention and explain the essay. Background information is the explanation of every piece of evidence. Through out the paper pieces of evidence need to be weaved into the writing. In the conclusion you must bring the reader to a point of closure. But you cannot just close your paper it needs to be a smooth ending. Krause says that it is good to connect the conclusion with the introduction. In the end of chapter ten Krause talks about how to cite your sources and why it is important. This is where you give credit to the evidence that you used in you paper. This can be other research, books, movies, interviews, anything. I think that this would have been a lot more helpful at the beginning of the semester or even in 101, this is because by now if you don’t know how to do these kinds of papers you are in trouble.

Exploration Two

The United States marines have been around for a longtime. But not to long ago did we start to use the marines as reconnaissance. The First reconnaissance team made up of twenty enlisted men and two officers. They were the first observer group. This was the first unit trained in amphibious reconnaissance. The name soon changed to the arc (VAC). This unit was assigned to pinpointing the enemy’s location throughout the atolls of the Eniwetok islands. The arc soon grew to twenty officers’ 270 enlisted men and 13 navy corpsmen. A turn around for the recon Marines came in July of 1944 in the assault on the Tinian Island. The Navy and the marines were in an argument about what landing zone would be better and who would get to choose. This argument soon came down to sending a group of recon marines to scout each beach and to find out which landing zone would be more safe and easier for both the ground troops and the air and sea support. The marines were sent to one beach to start off only equipped with a knife. They had to wait an extra night to check out the second beach. Again only sent with knives the recon Marines gathered the intelligence they needed to settle the dispute. The Marines had chosen the right beach. Beach two had been armed with artillery. “Had the division gone ashore on the spot picked by Kelly (navy), it would have been a slaughter…) This proved the recon marines as a weapon of warfare. The marines would see service in iwo jima and Okinawa, as well as other amphibious assaults in the pacific. During this time marines were often seen training with navy under water demolitions. During WWII there would be 108 missions carried out by these marines, often equipped with a Ka-Bar knife and swim gear. The first Marine division recon Company came from the 5th marine regiment, they would trade in some reconnaissance schooling for actual combat training. The second amphibious reconnaissance Battalion was in camp lejeune, North Carolina. On the west coast at camp Pendleton the first reconnaissance battalion was started on march 5, 1951. Both of these regiments would be active during the Korean war. The force recon marines keep developing as a combat trained intelligence-gathering group. New tactics were developed. Instead of beach warfare they needed to get into the mountains, the helicopter was used. Also because of the helicopters divers needs the marines went to jump school to jump out of planes. The marines jumped from every type of aircraft the navy could throw at them. They were even jumping through Bombay doors. There were two different types of recon that this group would do. Key hole and Sting Ray. Key hole is a no fire type of recon where they only had weapons for backup. Sting Ray the Marines went out looking for trouble and were there to hold a fight. Most key hole recon missions turned into Sting Rays in a heart beat. In this short preview of an article that I have ordered, I learned a lot about how these killing, machines were brought to be. When I say killing machines I don’t mean it in a bad way. These men are taught to kill they are out to get information and protect themselves the carry the message. I want to get deeper into the fact of what they are trained to do. I want to find out what the job oreder of these guys is exactly and what they can do. This is not a group of infantry men, these are force recon marines.