Communication for
Academic Purposes
With the multifarious information from
the internets, books, and other reading
resources that will help you finish your
academic papers, it is paramount that
will recall how you can avoid using
somebody’s words or ideas.
Quoting
- Copying the words of the author and
intertwining these words to your own
- Quoted statements, which are incorporated
at the beginning. Middle, or end part of
your paragraph are enclosed in quotation
marks and are identified with the author’s
family name, year of publication, and page
number of the journal or book where the
quoted statement was lifted from.
Following the American Psychological
Association (APA), 6th edition format,
quoted statements fewer than 40 words
are incorporated in the texts and are
enclosed in quotation marks while
statements composed of more than 40
words are set off as block quotations
and not enclosed in quotation marks.
Less than 40 words
PLAGIARISM
- Defined as “the
practice of
claiming credits
for the words,
ideas, and
concepts of
others” (American
Psychological
Association [APA],
2010, p170).
Paraphrasing – entails using your own words and own
style of writing to state another author’s idea. You
may use grammatical structure different from that of
the original text.
Original Text
The activities scheduled on
March 19, 2018 for the
Strawberry Festival celebration
were called off because of the
stormy weather.
●
Acceptable
Paraphrase
Due to the inclement weather,
the March 19, 2018 activities of
the Strawberry festival were
cancelled.
●
Using APA, 6th edition format paraphrases and
summaries are presented through in text citation.
Examples:
Siagto-Wakat (2017) surfaced the students
undergo shimming and shaming experiences
In 2017, Siagto-Wakat surfaced that students
undergo shimming and shaming experiences.
Students undergo shiming and shaming
experiences (Siagto-Wakat, 2017)
For citations with two or more authors, the word and
is spelled out if the names of the authors are not
enclosed in the parenthesis while ampersand is used
if the names of the authors are enclosed in
parenthesis.
Examples:
Heckler, Forde, and Bryan (2013) found that
plagiarism depends on the kind of assignment given to the
students.
In 2013, Heckler, Forde, and Bryan found that
plagiarism depends on the kind of assignment given to the
students.
Plagiarism depends on the kind of assignment given
to the students (Heckler, Forde, & Bryan, 2013)
Summarizing –
warrants the
articulation of
the important
ideas of the
original text in a
compendious form.
Hence, a research
article can simply
be summarized in
less than ten
sentences.