2. APA format

To use in our essays, out of lots of formatting tecniques, we studied APA. In APA, the main points are in-text citations and list of references.

There are 3 ways of gathering information from our sources.First one is using quotations when we want to take to the whole sentence or phrase from the author's text.In this method both in-text citation and list of references are needed.

The other way is phraphrasing.It means to re-write the sentence with your own words.We must use both of the tecniques in this method too.

The last one is summarising, which means shortening and phraprasing the original text.Again in this , we must use both of tecniques.

An example for in-text citations;
Our voyeuristic demand seems to be increasing; we hardy pay attention anymore to single murders. (Rushdie, 2001)

An example for list of references;
Tack, S. (2009) Week 3: Proper use of source material. ENG 101 The Indıvıdual, Society and Change. Student sentence #4.

In order to avoid plaigirism and to give credit the author, we must do both of the tecniques.It also helps the reader to find more information about the text if they wanted.

1.A different perspective to "reality"

Allende approaches to the topic "reality" from a different angle: with a story! "And of clay are we created" is about a reporter who tries to help a little girl, Azucena.As we all know from the title of the story, Azucena was under the mud which was caused by a volcana eruption.Rolf Carle, the reporter, tried everything to help her but she was stuck underneath the mud.For 3 days she suffered, all the media was there but not the pump which could really helped her.The narrator, Carle's girlfriend tried to get some help there but no one was helpful.Her sufferings was on TV for 3 days!


There comes the "reality" part.People like to watch real things on TV but that shouldn't be some little girl's suffers...I think this story is mainly written for the idea of "How far can the reality go?" and with this story we learn what Allende thinks.I agree to her that sometimes on TV, there are programs which ovestep the limits.

I like the story and I suggest everyone to read it.