Example of how to use Swin Harvard

system when you have retrieved an article

from the web
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/01/drive-he-wrote web page

Original material

The New Yorker

A Critic at Large

October 1, 2007 Issue

Drive, He Wrote

What the Beats were about.

By Louis Menand

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/01/drive-he-wrote web page

1. You want to use a small Quote from within article from your notes:

Original material

Holmes thought that Beats were optimists, risk-takers, seekers—young people with
“a desperate craving for belief.” (US quote-style punctuation) Writer John Clellon Holmes

In text

A fragment small quote within a sentence that you are writing

Writer John Clellon Holmes, disillusioned by the Cold War and fascinated to the point of
obsession with how his generation should be living their lives, saw the Beats as ‘optimists,
risk-takers, seekers—young people with “a desperate craving for belief”’ (Menand 2007).
(We need to change punctuation within a US quote to Australian style. We also need to
ensure that a fragment quote within our writing flows/reads as a normal grammatical
sentence.) In the text, after a quote or after a paraphrase use:

(Menand 2007) because it is not from a physical book or physical article (it is from a web
page), there is no need to put a page number. Note: no comma after the person’s surname.

2. You want to source a paraphrase (rewriting source material so that it is not plagiarism)
within your writing.

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Original material

In fact, the characters in “On the Road” spend as short a time on the road as they can.
They’re not interested in exploring rural or small-town America. Speed is essential. The men
rarely even have time to chase after the women they run into, because they’re always in a
hurry to get to a city. A lot of the book takes place in cities, particularly New York, Denver,
and San Francisco, but also Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Mexico City. Even there, the
characters are always rushing around. They are

The characters in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the road are not interested in exploring the
scenery or countryside they are driving through; they scarcely seem to have the time or
inclination to chat up the women they meet. They are always in a hurry to get back on the
road and move on to the next city and the next city (Menand 2007).

OR

Louis Menand (2007), critic for The New Yorker, explains that the characters in Jack
Kerouac’s novel On the Road are not interested in exploring the scenery or countryside they
are driving through; they scarcely seem to have the time or inclination to chat up the
women they meet. They are always in a hurry to get back on the road and move on to the
next city and the next city.

3. You want to use a block quote:

Original material

Cassady was an uncanny cross between James Dean and W. C. Fields—a screwup with a
profile, a stud with an endless supply of goofy gab. There is sufficient testimony concerning
his sexual endowment to overcome the skepticism normally advisable on that topic. Some
people who knew and liked him called him a con man (and many people, including
Burroughs, disliked and avoided him), but this seems misleading. Cassady was a serial
seducer, and, therefore, inveterately untrustworthy.

You want to omit the green sections from your quote.

A block quote

Jack Kerouac’s male muse Beat character was Neal Cassady:

Cassady was an uncanny cross between James Dean and W. C. Fields—a screwup with a
profile, a stud with an endless supply of goofy gab ... Some people who knew and liked him
called him a con man ... but this seems misleading. Cassady was a serial seducer, and,
therefore, inveterately untrustworthy. (Menand 2007)

Note: the indented text for a block quote and the smaller font size.

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4. References (at end)

Menand, Louis 2007, ‘Drive, he wrote: What the Beats were about’, The New Yorker, 1
October, viewed May 31, 2017, <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/01/drive-
he-wrote >.

NOTE: punctuation and how to add the website access and information.

From the Swinburne library website

Reference list entry: this is what the Swinburne referencing section (Harvard
style) has to say about quoting from a physical newspaper. (Note: page numbers
need to be mentioned. Find this help and more help by visiting the Swin website >
Library > Referencing > Harvard > and then the type of material you are using
whether book, newspaper or magazine article found on a website etc.)

Author, Initial(s) Year of publication, 'Article Title', Newspaper Title, Day Month, page
numbers.

Crowe, D 2013, 'Big projects ordered to buy local', The Australian, 17 January, p. 1.

In-text

Direct quote

"Big investors will ..." (Crowe 2013, p. 1)

Paraphrase

Crowe (2013, p. 1) claims bigger investors will ....