Question

Read the excerpt.



The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright—
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.



-from "The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Mother Goose

Carlos is integrating this source content into his essay. Which of the following sentences demonstrates an ethical and responsible use of this source in his writing?

“The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might.”
Mother Goose begins to describe the oddity at the end of the first stanza, “And this was odd, because it was / The middle of the night.”
The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
The poem says this was odd because it was the middle of the night and the reader is left to wonder, “Why is it odd? How can it be sunny in the middle of the night?”

Answer 1

"Mother Goose begins to describe the oddity at the end of the first stanza, “And this was odd, because it was / The middle of the night.”

Explanation: this sentence both attributes the lines to the source and uses quotation marks for the quoted material, so it responsibly acknowledges the original. The others either lack attribution or present quoted lines without proper quotation marks.