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any facts, statistics, graphs, drawingsany pieces of informationthat are not common knowledge;
3. Check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you have not accidentally used the same phrases or words, and that the information is
accurate.
Quotation: using someones words. When you quote, place the passage you are using in quotation marks, and document the source according to a standard
documentation style.
The following example uses the Modern Language Associations style:
Example: According to Peter S. Pritchard in USA Today, Public schools need reform but theyre irreplaceable in teaching all the nations young (14).
Paraphrase: using someones ideas, but putting them in your own words. This is probably the skill you will use most when incorporating sources into your
writing. Although you use your own words to paraphrase, you must still acknowledge the source of the information.
Example
The philosopher Alain states that "admiration is not pleasure but a kind of attention. . ." (qtd.
in Magny 66).
Alain's words seem to dissociate admiration from pleasure (in Magny 66).
The most notorious foreign lobby in Washington is the "Sugar Mafia" (Howe and Trott 134).
In his second volume, Freedberg gives an account of Andrea's whole painting career.
Frye connects Burgess' A Clockwork Orange to romance tradition (Secular Scripture 110).
This controversy has been addressed more than once (Dabundo 27; Magny 69).
Parsons talked about the need for physical education teachers to understand the relationship
Instructions
A.
"At the beginning of October I was in Moscow to discuss the calculations, and those relating to the Big Bomb
in particular" (Memoirs 219).
B.
C.
"At the beginning of October I was in Moscow to discuss the calculations, and those relating to the Big Bomb
Many different types of organizations in the United States are involved in mediation and
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Chart
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLACitation_Quot.html
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A.from:
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outside one courthouse, Tatyana Velikanova said retrieved
to me with
pride: "They must sense our moral
courthouse, Tatyana
force." (Sakharov 361).
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B. "Standing outside one courthouse, Tatyana Velikanova said to me with pride: 'They must sense our moral
pride: "They must sense our
moral force."
force'" (Sakharov 361).
C.
"Standing outside one courthouse, Tatyana Velikanova said to me with pride: 'They must sense our moral
force'" (Velikanova 361).
A.
Sakharov and his second wife went on a honeymoon to Central Asia and took their sons (363).
B.
"Sakharov and his second wife went on a honeymoon to Central Asia and took their sons" (Sakharov 363).
C.
Sakharov and his second wife went on a honeymoon to Central Asia and took their sons (Sakharov).
D.
"Sakharov and his second wife went on a honeymoon to Central Asia and took their sons" (363).
Author(s) name(s)
Title of article, or chapter, or speech or web article
Title of book, website, magazine, newspaper, journal, movie, TV broadcast
City of publication
Name of publisher
Date of publication
Authors last name Authors first name or initial Title of Book in italics City of
publication
Example
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Tips
The first line of each citation should start at the left margin of the page, but each following line should be indented inch. This is called a hanging indent
Sources must be listed alphabetically by the first word in each citation (usually the authors last name.) Set up your list in a 1-column table so you can add
entries as you research then sort the list alphabetically. Set the table so the borders do not print.
Names of books, magazines, academic journals, and newspapers should be either underlined or italicized,
1) Which one of these was written first? How can you tell?
Works Cited
Henriques, Diana B. Heros Fall Teaches Wall Street a
2) From what type of source (book, magazine, newspaper, academic journal) do you
think they came? What clues do you have from the citations?
Look at the Works Cited
at the far right and
answer these questions.
3) Are these from a printed source or from the Internet? How can you tell?
4) How can you tell where one citation ends and the next begins?
5) Why do you think the second citation has two dates in it?
Write a citation for the following publications. Use the correct format.