If your
instructions say to provide page numbers for what you wrote or for sections of
it
For the rest of your life, you will write and talk to experts or you will be trying to become an expert. Experts will know if you are faking content because:
1. With upper level professors, they will know the content. If they don’t know, they will have their reputation at risk if they approve your work and you get a job based on that and you fail.
2. With bosses, they will know the content. If they don’t know, they will have money at risk based on whether your are right
With citations or with writing when citations are
not required, you always want to verify the accuracy of what you have in your
head. Whether for academics or business memos, this is what I found safe:
3. Do what the prof or boss wants regarding citations
4.
But always have citations in your own version of
the document. Know that you can prove what you say—and know you have that
document when you are getting yelled at 2 weeks later.
Citation can be in many formats (covered in the Major Essay
instructions), but what matters about citation is not the format. Instead,
citation is a tool:
5. For
your being able to think well
6. For
letting others be able to confirm quickly for themselves whether you are right
I can show you where Bedford says the purpose is so you or your reader can go “straight to
the passage that has been cited.”
That won’t happen if you send the reader to:
7. A
range of pages (Not 87-89) – Don’t do it for the kinds of evidence you are
providing.
8.
A set of pages (Not 87, 89) – Don’t do it for
the kinds of evidence you are providing.
Both MLA and Chicago Manual of Style require citation of both:
9. Facts
in your own words,
10. Facts
in the author’s exact words (a quotation)
Caution: facts in the author’s exact words also
require a pair of quotation marks (“ “) around the author’s owned words or it
is plagiarism.
American Psychological
Association (frequently referred to as APA)
does not require citations of facts in your own words. – Caution: In this course, if you use APA, you must provide citations for facts, not just quotations.
Requirements
in This Course
1. Provide
the exact page number for each fact
(such as page 89)
- Not a range of pages (Not 87-89)
- Not a set of pages (Not 87, 89)
2. Cite
both:
·
Facts in your own words,
·
Facts in the author’s exact words (a quotation)
FYI: Regardless
of the format, citation goes immediately
after a fact. If you have several facts together from the same page, you
only need to cite one time, and that is after the last fact from that page.
If you wrote what is in the box, you will be asked
to give page numbers
Sentence 1- Body
of your paper. Sentence 2- Body of your paper. Sentence3- Body of your paper.
Sentence 4- Body of your paper. Sentence 5- Body of your paper. Sentence 6- Body
of your paper. . Sentence 7- Body of your paper. Sentence 8-- Body of your
paper. Sentence 9- Body of your paper. |
You figure out the content was from:
1. For
Sentence 1 and 2 from page 89
2. For
Sentence 3 from page 88—but now that you check you realize the source says the
opposite to what you said
3. For
Sentence 4 from page 100
4. For
Sentence 5 from 101
5. For Sentence 6 from page 100
6. For Sentences 7, 8, and 9 from page 135
Notice where you stick the page numbers and that you write (Can’t find) after Sentence 3
Sentence 1- Body
of your paper. Sentence 2- Body of your paper (p. 89). Sentence3- Body of
your paper (Can’t find.) Sentence 4- Body of your paper (p. 100). Sentence 5-
Body of your paper (p. 101). Sentence 6- Body of your paper. (p. 100). Sentence
7- Body of your paper. Sentence 8- Body of your paper. Sentence 9- Body of
your paper (p. 135). |
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– Dr. Bibus |
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Last
Updated: |
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