10/4/16 Devin Gozdenovich

In class today, Mr. Rivers started off by reviewing how to properly include quotes in our summer reading essay. He described the process as ICA. I stands for Introduce. At the beginning of the sentence before you evidence, you introduce your quote and blend it into the evidence, making it seem like it was not just pasted into your essay. Next is C, and that stands for Cite. This means that you use the correct citations in your essay, whether it be in APA or MLA. The parenthetical reference needs to be at the end of the sentence, and not at the end of the quote. Also, you need to make sure your citations on the Works Cited Page is correct. For example, the citation for a movie would be Film Title. Dir. First Name Last Name. Container, Distributor, Year of Release. These two components should be accomplished in one sentence. It should be quick and be no longer than the one sentence combined. Next would be the A, which stands for Analyze. In the next however many sentences necessary, you need to explain why your evidence is relevant to your essay, and connect it to your topic sentence. After he went over this, we went on to read a sample paragraph about intertextuality from a past student in our groups. We discussed how the student used ICA to create a good argument in the essay and how well they used it. Mr. Rivers then went to each clump and discussed with us about what we found and discussed about.