Directions For this Writing Activity, you will build essential skills for planning and writing a research paper.

Prompt

To practice quoting, paraphrasing, and using in-text citations, you will quote or paraphrase from a given passage, using an in-text citation.

Read the passage.

In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn’t know it yet.

Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike—the cell phone.

Here is the source of the passage:

Anjarwalla, Tas. “Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One.” CNN, www. cnn. com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/09/cooper. cell. phone. inventor/index. html.

Imagine you are writing a research paper and want to use this source. In the box below, type a sentence quoting or paraphrasing information from this passage. Make sure to use an in-text citation.