Citations

When including information in your paper, you need

to indicate where that information originated.

Why do you need to do show where

information originated?
1) You need to give credit to the people who found./wrote the
material youre using as a source
2) To make yourself more credible. Show you arent just sharing
your opinion there is research that backs you up.

How do you cite material within the

paper?
1) Use a direct quote. To do this, you just put the quote in word
for work, and indicate at the end the source from which you
gathered the quote.
2) Paraphrase. In this option, you put the quote in your own
words, and at the end of the sentence, you put the name of the
source from which you got the information.
3) Finally, in an in-text citation, you work the attribution right into
your sentence.

What information needs to be cited?

1) Direct quotations whether in written or oral formats (includes
stories, speeches, fiction and nonfiction)
2) Paraphrased quotations (these are quotes whose words you have
changed somewhat)

3) Statistical Data (numbers about things)

4) Original ideas that are attributed to someone else, even if you
put them in your own words

The Three Ways of Citing

Material Within the Text:
Direct Quote:
Put the quote in word for word, and indicate at the end the
source from which you gathered the quote
Example:
The most startling example was from a 1998 report that
suggested that the rain forest has been dwindling at the
rate of 250,000 acres per year (Jones, 4). Note: Format
for an in-text citation is (Authors last name,
Page #)

Paraphrase:
Put the quote in your own words, and at the end of the
sentence, you put the name of the source from which you
got the information.
Example:
For the past 25 years, the rain forests of South America have
been disappearing at an unbelievable rate (Jones, 4).

In-Text Citation w/ direct

quote:

Work the attribution (the name of the person who wrote the
work youre quoting from) right into your sentence
Example:
P. Jones, from the Amazon Basin Preservation Society,
reported in a 1998 article that the rain forest has been
dwindling at the rate of 250,000 acres per year