Rhetoric II
Prof. G. Steinberg
Documentation

Choose the documentation style that you expect to use the rest of this semester (and in your major).  The various styles are described in The New Century Handbook, pp. 276-346.  Then, examine the situations described below.  For each situation, type up the parenthetical citation (or footnote) appropriate to the situation, as well as a "Works Cited" or "References" citation (such as would appear at the end of the paper).

  1. The following sentence appears in your paper:
     
    Again, a study performed by Grennan, concentrating on male and female police officers' confrontations with citizens, revealed that the inborn or socialized nurturing ability possessed by female police workers makes them "just as productive as male officers in the handling of a violent confrontation."
     
    The quotation comes from page 84 of an article published in Journal of Police Science and Administration in 1987 and written by Samuel Grennan.  The article appeared on pages 78-84 of the first issue of volume 15 of the journal.  The article's title was "Findings on the Role of Officer Gender in Violent Encounters with Citizens."
     

  2. The following sentence appears in your paper:
     
    In a study done by Vega and Silverman, almost 75% of male police officers felt that women were not strong enough to handle the demands of patrol duties, and 42% felt women lacked the needed assertiveness to enforce the law vigorously.
     
    Would you need a citation for this information?  Matthew Vega and Immanuel Silverman wrote an article, called "Female Police Officers as Viewed by Their Male Counterparts."  It was published in the first issue of volume 5 of Police Studies in 1987.  It appeared on pages 31-39 of the journal, and the percentages in the sentence above appear on page 32.  Police Studies is published in Chicago.
     

  3. The following sentence appears in your paper:
     
    Who returns a questionnaire can affect results, as happened, for example, with one study in which "78% of the former students in the top percentile of their class returned the questionnaire, while only 28% from the bottom percentile returned the questionnaire."
     
    This quotation came from a 1999 article by R. L. Griffey, called "The Personalization of Questionnaires."  The article appeared on pages 83-93 of volume 14 of the Journal of Survey Techniques.  The quotation is on page 83.


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