October
27
ELA A30: Editorial Writing Sample – Citation Supports
Writing an Editorial Essay? Here’s a sample student piece that’s been edited for accurate style and supports. You can click through this Word Doc to read the Comments added that should walk you through/point out the elements of the paper you need to pay attention to: transitional phrases and types, focus of the different paragraphs, convincing tone and word choice, etc.
Note: Remember, if you wrote a Report, you cannot include persuasion or biased language.
A3.1 Student example editorial – colour coded – Waldner edited cited
- In-text Citation Method: Scribbr website clearest explanation found online
- Most importantly, we found:
- If there’s an author for your referenced material (writer of an article, etc), then cite the author’s name.
- Example: The rates of incarcerations have “doubled in ten years”(Harram).
- If there’s no author for your referenced material, like you took it from a government website or something, you post the first few words of the Title of the website page.
- Example: With the current corrections system, more than 40% of violent offenders re-offend within 5 years of release (Statistics of Corrections).
- If there’s an author for your referenced material (writer of an article, etc), then cite the author’s name.
- Most importantly, we found:
- Creating a Works Cited Page:
- Scribbr again explains it well
- and it can Generate your Word Doc cited page. From here, it will export a Word doc. You could copy/paste it into the end of your Google Doc in a new page.