Describe Tenants Under Siege.

Whereas the old rule of thumb was that your rent should be one paycheck a month, or about 25 percent of your income, the typical New York household now spends at least one third of its income on rent, and three in ten renter households pay 50 percent or more, according to the latest New York Housing and Vacancy Survey. (*)This is taken from an essay in Harper’s Magazine by Kevin Baker entitled, “The Death of a Once Great City: The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence,” published in the July 2018 issue. Because this is a magazine article, there is no works cited page as there would be if this were a formal research paper, but the information is referenced as coming from a specific published survey – New York Housing and Vacancy Survey. Were this a research paper, there would be a full citation for the source on a works cited page at the end of the essay.*If the source were a book or other print source, the author’s last name and a page number in parentheses would be added at the end of the sentence in the text of the essay along with the full citation at the end of the essay; if the source were from the internet, no page number would be needed, just the author’s last name and full citation at the end.The following is an example of a writer incorporating a quote and giving clear attribution in the text of his essay; it is from the same article by Kevin Baker: “Not long ago a rent-stabilized building would sell for ten or at most twelve times its rent roll – the amount of money, before expenses, that it generates in a year,” wrote journalist Michael Greenberg in a meticulous analysis that appeared in last August’s New York Review of Books. “Today it sells for perhaps thirty or forty times that amount, or ten times what the rent roll would be after regulated tenants have been dislodged.”Notice that Baker not only tells you who is being quoted here, but also adds validation for the person being referenced. It is not just anyone named Michael Greenberg; he is a journalist writing for a respected magazine. You don’t always have to give a full title and date for the source, but you do have to provide some kind of information that shows that the speaker is a credible authority for what he says; for example, investigative journalist, Michael Greenberg wrote, would have worked here as well.Were this a formal research paper, only a page number from a print source in parentheses would be needed at the end of the quote because the author is mentioned in the text of the essay and the full citation of the source is listed alphabetically by author’s last name in the works cited at the end of the essay; therefore, the source is easy to find. The purpose of parenthetical citations in the text of a research essay is always to help the reader locate the full citation information on the works cited list for the source referenced with as little interruption in the flow of the text as possible. If the source were from the internet, which as it happens this one is, no parenthetical citation is needed, only a full citation at the end, as follows:Greenberg, Michael. “Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis.” The New York Review of Books. August 17, 2017. nybooks.comI am not including the URL address here because to go there now you would be asked to subscribe to the magazine in order to read the full text. The 8th edition of MLA, which you will need to follow for your research paper, says to add the URL at the end of full citations of internet sources. I, however, don’t care if you do or you don’t. What I do care about is the full citation of the actual source on the works cited page and never a URL address by itself. Thankfully when I looked for it back in 2018, the full text was available, so full texts of both Baker and Greenberg’s articles are in LaGuardia’s library E-Reserves. Both are excellent examples of investigative journalism that model good research and well worth reading in full. Do.Paraphrasing and Using Quotes Assignment:Choose one of the sources you are reading for your research and paraphrase a piece of information from it in a short paragraph following the example of Baker’s paraphrase above; include a parenthetical citation at the end of it as needed.Choose the same or another source and find a passage to quote directly from in another short paragraph of your own. Be sure to mention who is being quoted and give some context for their being referenced. Follow the example of Baker’s use of a quote above; include a parenthetical citation at the end of it as needed.