Black Women’s Prison Narratives and the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in US Prisons

Introduction:

Now that you have read, the first 6 chapters of The Concise APA Handbook APA 7th Edition, you should be ready to demonstrate your APA 7th edition knowledge by completing the activities below.

 Instructions

Complete the following activities to practice your paraphrasing and citation skills.

After reading the article, Black Women’s Prison Narratives Download Black Women’s Prison Narratives…, complete the following tasks:

Page One | Part 1: Paraphrasing one to two sentences

This activity consists of three steps:

1. Read the following published sentence and then paraphrase it-that is, rewrite it in your own You do not need to repeat every element. Instead, try changing the focus of the sentence while preserving the meaning of the original.
2. Write an APA Style reference list entry for the published work using the source information.
3. Figure out the in-text citation that corresponds to the reference list entry. Then add a parenthetical citation to your paraphrased sentence. 

Published Sentence

“Learning about imprisonment from the people experiencing it raises key issues that go beyond an immediate concern with the institution

of the prison, as prisoner writing interrogates notions of captivity, racism, classism, and oppression. Writing allows imprisoned women

to create their own discourse within an oppressive system and in an oppressive space. Though their writings may not dismantle the

system, they create a space where the women find their voice and educate themselves. While writing in prison may not be behaviour

that is always seen as explicitly political, it can become important to the resistance to structures of privilege, exploitation, and power.

On an individual level, writing can be transformative for the women, especially when it is done in a space where creativity, self-expression,

and literacy are typically not encouraged.”

Source Information

• Document type: Peer reviewed article
• Author: Breea Willingham
• Publication year: 2011
• Page: (p. 57)
• Article information: Black Women’s Prison Narratives and the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in US Prisons. Critical Survey, 23(3), 55–66.
• URL: https://doi.org/10.18574/9780814769324Links to an external site.

Write your paraphrased sentence(s) and parenthetical in-text citation:

Write your reference list entry:

Start by asking yourself the following questions:

1. Did you paraphrase effectively? Or did you patch write (change only a few words, substitute synonyms on a one-to-one basis) rather than paraphrase (restate in your own words, reframe ideas for your paper context)?
2. What other ways are there to paraphrase? How could you emphasize different ideas?

Reminders and Tips

Remember, there are many acceptable ways to paraphrase a sentence; the sentences in these activities are only examples.

^{Part of this exercise was adapted from APA 7th Edition instructional guide.}

Page Two | Part 2: 

Begin this assignment on a new page, not in a separate file. Based the article Black Women’s Prison Narratives…, write a 100-word essay on why you believe Professor Willingham chose Black feminist thought as a vehicle to write the article.

For this short essay:

• Create an APA 7th edition style cover page. (standalone page)
• Use in-text citations to support your argument. 
• Create an APA 7th edition style References page (standalone page)
• Double-spaced
• A variety of fonts are permitted in APA Style papers. Font options include the following:
  • sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode
  • serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, or 11-point Georgia.