Exercise A

The Millerite movement–named after the itinerant lay preacher William Miller–had congealed around Miller's belief that Bible prophecy, correctly read, pointed to the occurrence of the Second Coming sometime between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844. No one knows how many Millerites there ultimately were. Miller himself estimated 50,000 committed adherents.
Michael Barkun, "John Humphrey Noyes and Millennialism," <http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/c/Courier/01.htm>.

The second passage deals with the impact of Millerism:

Clergy from several denominations warned their congregations of Christ's soon appearing, lay preachers obtained prophetic charts and rented halls to preach the Advent Near, and small bands prayed for the conversion of friends and families. General Conferences of Believers in the Second Coming of Christ at the Door were called where special committees were elected, strategies for reaching the unevangelized conceived, leaders appointed, and the business of operating a campaign was conducted. A trans-church movement was organized, structured and invested with authority without assuming the burdens of buildings, bureaucracy or salaried clergy.
Ginger Hanks Harwood, "'Like the Leaves of Autumn': The Utilization of the Press to Maintain Millennial Expectations in the Wake of Prophetic Failure," <http://www.mille.org/publications/winter2001/Harwood.html>.

The next questions ask you to draw on these two quotations in several different ways. The purpose of this exercise is to give you an opportunity to practice incorporating borrowed material into your own writing. Pay particular attention to two things as you work on these exercises. First, try out different ways of integrating the borrowed material as smoothly as you can with your own writing. Second, be sure that you clearly identify all borrowed words and ideas. You will get detailed information about citing sources in Chapter 9. For the purposes of this exercise, using the author's name is all that is required. For instance:

One of the immediate results of Millerism was a powerful "trans-church movement" that did not have to support "the burdens of buildings, bureaucracy or salaried clergy" (Harwood).

or

Michael Barkun characterizes Millerism as a movement that "congealed" around William Miller's beliefs about the Second Coming of Christ.

For each prompt, write at least two different versions of the sentence called for. For example, you can incorporate the name of the writer in one version and put it in parentheses in another. You can experiment with different ways of introducing quotations in your sentence, or you can quote different words or phrases. If you post your work to the chat area, you can compare your versions with those of your classmates. You may be surprised at the amount of variation you will see.