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- Greg Lukinoff and Jonathan Haidt have conducted research about college and university “scrubbing campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense [to students]” (Lukinoff and Haidt paragraph 1).
- “In our country, there are groups of students who chronically underperform …they’ve done so poorly for so long that many people think it’s inevitable. But when educators create growth mindset classrooms steeped in yet, equality happens” (Dweck 7:14).
- Both brackets and ellipses help the quotes fit more smoothly into my writing, and allow the reader to fully understand what my intention was for adding the quote.
- Lukianoff and Haidt discuss the idea of critical thinking and the importance of teaching cognitive behavior therapy strategies. “Why not teach incoming students how to practice cognitive behavioral therapy? Given high and rising rates of mental illness, this simple step would be among the most humane and supportive things a university could do” (Lukinoff and Haidt paragraph 63).
- The conducted research in “The Power of Believing You Can Improve” TedTalk, was an experiment to observe the reactions of 10-year-olds who were given a problem a little too hard for them. “Some of them reacted in a shockingly positive way. They said things like, ‘I love a challenge,’ or ‘You know, I was hoping this would be informative” (Dweck 1:01).
- It is important to not always use the authors name in the signal phrase because the paper can come very repetitive. I found many of my sentences looked and sounded the same, so I switched some of them up to break up all the quotes. It is also annoying and repetitive to continually say the last names.
