Practice with In-text Citation

Instructions

Integrate the following passages accordingly.

According to Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton, "Content development is the hardest, most time consuming part of any website development project" (3).

According to Jakob Nielson, a more consistent, standard design and intuitive interface for Sun's intranet system could save nearly ten million dollars a year by making employees more efficient (Lynch and Horton 51-52).

Velthoven et al claim that people who fail to keep pace with new technologies will not only be "out of touch" with society, they will also have to exert "tremendous determination and stamina to catch up."

Thoreau says, "Our life is frittered away by detail." Or,

"Our life is frittered away by detail," says Thoreau.

Steve Bain and Daniel Gray say that a good website has engaging content, friendly interface, and consistent, pleasing design. But even many high profile, popular sites fail to meet all three of these criteria. Usually they either have good content and poor design, or good design and poor content (99).

Laura Lemay, HTML and web expert, says that the ultimate web design team would consist of four main people: a designer, a programmer, a writer, and a "curious person." These last two are especially needed because a good website involves more than "doing something flashy," she says. It also consists of "writing good content" (WebWeek).

1. Make a direct quotation from the following sentence: "Content development is the hardest, most time consuming part of any website development project" (Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web style guide: basic design principles for creating web sites, 3).

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2. Paraphrase the following passage: "Sun's user inferface expert Jakob Nielsen estimates that his redesign of Sun's intranet user interface may save each employee as much as 5 minutes a week through consistent company wide application of design and navigation interface standards. The aggregate savings in Sun employee time may amount to as much as ten million dollars a year, thus improving productivity and increasing the efficiency with which employees use the companies intranet sites " (Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web style guide: basic design principles for creating web sites, 51-52).

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3. Make a mixed quotation from the following passage: "People who disregard technological megaleaps are likely to end up feeling out of touch. Worse, once a person falls behind in the endless race to know and understand new technology, it takes tremendous determination and stamina to catch up (Willem Velthoven, Liesbeth den Boer, and Geert-Jan Strengthold, Website Graphics--the best of Global Design, intro). *note, for multiple authors, refer to them as Velthoven et al. "Et al" is Latin for "and others."

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4. Make a direct quotation from the following sentence: "Our life is frittered away by detail" (Henry David Thoreau).

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5. Paraphrase the following passage: "Many highly regarded web sites only fill 2 of the 3 basic requirements of good design. Namely, well-written content, an intuitive interface, and an appealing yet consistent design theme. All too often, sites are produced with well-written text but poor illustrations or vice versa" (Steve Bain and Daniel Gray. Looking Good online: the ultimate resource for creating effective web designs. Ventana Communications Gropu, Inc, NC, 1996, p.99).

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6. Make a mixed quotation from the following passage: "If Laura Lemay [an HTML guru] were to assemble a web site's dream team, she would first narrow the search down to four types of people: a writer with a journalism background, a programmer, a designer, and a 'curious person' . . . 'Doing something flashy and cool is less important than writing good content,' she said." (WebWeek).

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