Quotations and Paraphrasing
Introduction
- Why quotations and paraphrasing is used
- What plagarism is
- What quotes are
- What paraphrasing is
- Two parts of quotations
- Direct
- Indirect (or paraphrasing)
- When/how to use quotations
- To support an argument
- Use the most important part of the quotation
- How to introduce a quotation with the author's name / describe the source of the quotation
- Two methods: Literal and Free
- Literal- substitute original words
- Free- Used in final drafts, completely rearange words and sentence structure
- Reasons to use paraphrasing
- To retell a passage (usually to make sure the reader can understand)
- To explain what a passage or idea means
APA Style
- APA is the American Psychological Association
- This reference system is used for disciplines such as:
- Education
- Buisness
- Science
- What you need (it varries from what kind of source you got the quote from):
- Author's name
- Date / Published Date
- Website, book, article title, etc.
- If a quote is longer than 40 words, quotation marks would no longer be used. Instead, the quote must be indented and seperated from the rest of the text.
- When paraphrasing, elipses must be used (...)
- When changing words slightly, square brackets must be used
- MLA is the Modern Language Assosication
- It is used as a reference system for Liberal Arts and Humanities
- Always have to use the author's name in the text unless there is no documented author
- How to use quotations
- Use quotation marks with short quotations (four lines or less), must cite the author and the page number.
- Quotations longer than four lines must be indented
APA information link
MLA information link
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