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PART I.
Explain the following in YOUR OWN WORDS (5 PT. EACH)
1. Citation - In every scholarly works, citation is a crucial component to make your published
work more credible. Citation is basically a reference to a source you used as basis of your work.
It is a quotation that recognizes a source of information or of a quoted passage. It is a way to tell
your readers that your work used other sources as reference and gives your readers necessary
information to find that source again.
2. APA - The American Psychological Association or APA developed a style of documenting
and citing sources. APA is mainly used in citing sources in scientific works and social sciences.
You need to use APA citation everytime you paraphrase, summarize, or even quote information
from another sources. Listing the author's name and the year the work was published in your text
is highly required.
3. MLA - MLA or the Modern Language Association developed a style of citing sources which
is mainly used often in literature, language, liberal arts, and other humanities subjects. It has a
standardized format of documenting sources and includes pieces of information in this order:
Author's Last name, First Name. "Title of the Source". Title of Container, other contributors,
version, numbers, publisher, publication date, location.
4. IEEE - IEEE which stands for Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers developed a
citing style for branches of engineering, computer science, and information technology. This
style includes in-text citations, numbered in square brackets, which refer to the full citation listed
in the reference list at the end of the paper. IEEE style is organized numerically rather than
alphabetically.
5. AMA - AMA stands for American Medical Association which is a system of citing or
referencing that ables academic authors to show where another author's work has contributed to
or supported a finding or theory within their work. It is mainly used in the field of medical works
and has a number of variations for different publications. In the AMA referencing, citations and
references are the two parts needed. Both are linked by a number, and are defined by the order of
appearance within the text like starting in number 1, then 2, and so on.
6. CHICAGO - Chicago referencing and citing style is a system used by researchers to structure
their written works and cite sources. Chicago style is preferably used in works like reference
books, non-academic periodicals like newspapers, magazines, journals, and more. Also, Chicago
style uses footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies. The basic format for Chicago is: First name
Last Name of Author, "Title of page", Title of Website, Month Day, Date published, web
address.
PART II.
TEST I. Direction: Read the details given below and arrange them into their proper sequence to
create an IN-TEXT citation in the given style. (TOTAL: 90PTS.)
1. Author: John Smith Date Published: 1995 Page: 46 Statement: Plums are
the best source of Vitamin D
TEST II. Direction: Read the details given below and arrange them into their proper sequence
to create a REFERENCE citation in the given style. (TOTAL: 80PTS.)
Derwing, T. M., Rossiter, M. J., & Munro, M. J. (2002). Teaching native speakers to listen to
foreign-accented speech. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 23, (4),
245-259.
Asher, J. J. & Garcia, R. (1969). The optimal age to learn a foreign language. Modern Language
Journal, 53, 334-341.
Gordon, M. D. (2012). The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky And The Birth Of The
Modern Fringe. Print, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Pifalo, T. (2008). Why art therapy? Darkness to light: Confronting child abuse with courage.
Retrieved from http://www.darkness2light.org/KnowAbout/articles_art_therapy.asp