Herbert 1

William Herbert

Dr. Kinnamon

English 112.9

17 September 2003

            According to Caulfield, plants from tropic rainforests have been used in medicine since the time of Louis XIV, who was successfully treated for amoebic dysentery with ipecac, which “is still the most effective treatment for that disease.” In the late twentieth century, more than a tenth of 1,500 plants studied in Costa Rica “had potential as anti-cancer agents.” Caulfield also reports that although “[i]n 1979 the Madagascar periwinkle was the only major anti-cancer drug from tropical rainforests,” by the mid-1980s many more were “reaching their clinical trials” (221).

[Notice the use of quoted key words and phrases, as well as references to the author’s name to help indicate the limits of borrowed information. Be sure that your paraphrase is accurate. You would not in this case, for instance, write about Caulfield’s reporting as “recent”! And be sure to include in-text documentation: page number(s) in parentheses. Here is can go at the very end because it is clear that the whole paragraph is based on Caulfield. Please also notice that periods and commas go inside quotation marks. When there is in-text, parenthetical documentation, of course, the period goes after the parentheses. Also be sure to avoid isolated quotations: always integrate quoted material, especially whole sentences, fully and smoothly into your text.]

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