{"id":371,"date":"2019-08-28T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i\/chapter\/assignment-writing-ethically\/"},"modified":"2019-08-28T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:18:21","slug":"assignment-writing-ethically","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/chapter\/assignment-writing-ethically\/","title":{"raw":"Assignment: Writing Ethically","rendered":"Assignment: Writing Ethically"},"content":{"raw":"\n<ol>\n \t<li>Using the passage below, construct a paraphrase of a portion of the text, naming the source and incorporating the&nbsp;<strong>paraphrase<\/strong>&nbsp;within your own logic. Follow the \u201cquote sandwich\u201d method explained in this section: begin with an introduction, then a signal phrase (like \u201caccording to\u2026\u201d or \u201c[the author] states that\u2026\u201d or \u201cIn the passage from . . .\u201d), then the paraphrased sentences, and an explanation of the paraphrase&nbsp;in your own words.\n<ul>\n \t<li>Note that you would typically include a citation in the sandwich, but you don\u2019t need to do that&nbsp;in this exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n \t<li>Next, repeat the process in step one, but this time construct a successful <strong>paraphrase<\/strong>&nbsp;sandwich of a passage from the article you identified earlier from your EBSCO database search.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Passage for Step 1<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here is a passage from a world history textbook. Use this for Step 1.<\/p>\n\n<div>Like so many things desired by Europeans and supplied by Asians\u2014at first luxury items for the elite such as silk or porcelain, but increasingly products like tea from China for the mass market\u2014cotton textiles were produced well and cheaply in India. The British textile manufacturers focused on the \u201ccheap\u201d part and complained that with relatively higher wages, British manufacturers could not compete. India had a competitive advantage in the eighteenth century, being able to undersell in the world market virtually any other producer of textiles. Some thought the reason for cheap Indian textiles was because of a low living standard, or a large population earning depressed wages, but all of those have been shown to not be true: Indian textile workers in the eighteenth century had just as high a standard of living as British workers. So, if it was not a low standard of living that gave India its competitive advance, what did?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a word: agriculture. Indian agriculture was so productive that the amount of food produced, and hence its cost, was significantly lower than in Europe. In the preindustrial age, when working families spent 60-80 percent of their earnings on food, the cost of food was the primary determinant of their real wages (i.e. how much a pound, dollar, a real, or a pagoda could buy). In India (and China and Japan as well), the amount of grain harvested from a given amount of seed was in the ration of 20:1 (e.g., twenty bushels of rice harvested for every one planted), whereas in England it was at best 8:1. Asian agriculture thus was more than twice as efficient as British (and by extension European) agriculture, and food\u2014the major component in the cost of living\u2014cost less in Asia.<\/div><\/blockquote>\n","rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Using the passage below, construct a paraphrase of a portion of the text, naming the source and incorporating the&nbsp;<strong>paraphrase<\/strong>&nbsp;within your own logic. Follow the \u201cquote sandwich\u201d method explained in this section: begin with an introduction, then a signal phrase (like \u201caccording to\u2026\u201d or \u201c[the author] states that\u2026\u201d or \u201cIn the passage from . . .\u201d), then the paraphrased sentences, and an explanation of the paraphrase&nbsp;in your own words.\n<ul>\n<li>Note that you would typically include a citation in the sandwich, but you don\u2019t need to do that&nbsp;in this exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Next, repeat the process in step one, but this time construct a successful <strong>paraphrase<\/strong>&nbsp;sandwich of a passage from the article you identified earlier from your EBSCO database search.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Passage for Step 1<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here is a passage from a world history textbook. Use this for Step 1.<\/p>\n<div>Like so many things desired by Europeans and supplied by Asians\u2014at first luxury items for the elite such as silk or porcelain, but increasingly products like tea from China for the mass market\u2014cotton textiles were produced well and cheaply in India. The British textile manufacturers focused on the \u201ccheap\u201d part and complained that with relatively higher wages, British manufacturers could not compete. India had a competitive advantage in the eighteenth century, being able to undersell in the world market virtually any other producer of textiles. Some thought the reason for cheap Indian textiles was because of a low living standard, or a large population earning depressed wages, but all of those have been shown to not be true: Indian textile workers in the eighteenth century had just as high a standard of living as British workers. So, if it was not a low standard of living that gave India its competitive advance, what did?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a word: agriculture. Indian agriculture was so productive that the amount of food produced, and hence its cost, was significantly lower than in Europe. In the preindustrial age, when working families spent 60-80 percent of their earnings on food, the cost of food was the primary determinant of their real wages (i.e. how much a pound, dollar, a real, or a pagoda could buy). In India (and China and Japan as well), the amount of grain harvested from a given amount of seed was in the ration of 20:1 (e.g., twenty bushels of rice harvested for every one planted), whereas in England it was at best 8:1. Asian agriculture thus was more than twice as efficient as British (and by extension European) agriculture, and food\u2014the major component in the cost of living\u2014cost less in Asia.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-371\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Assignment: Writing Ethically. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Quote Sandwich Activity. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Alexis McMillan-Clifton. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Tacoma Community College. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Activity from Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Amy Guptill. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.opensuny.org\/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence\/chapter\/5\/\">http:\/\/pressbooks.opensuny.org\/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence\/chapter\/5\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":141992,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Assignment: Writing Ethically\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Quote Sandwich Activity\",\"author\":\"Alexis McMillan-Clifton\",\"organization\":\"Tacoma Community College\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Activity from Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources\",\"author\":\"Amy Guptill\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/pressbooks.opensuny.org\/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence\/chapter\/5\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-371","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":364,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/371\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/364"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/371\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}