Why are in-text citations important?
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Why art in-text citations important?
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In-text Citations
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CITING SOURCES WITHIN THE BODY OF YOUR PAPER
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You MUST ALWAYS CITE text that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized – or any
information taken from another sources (like statistics or numerical data).
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In-text Citations
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When you omit the author's name in your sentence:
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(Author’s Last Name Page #)
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Example: One researcher has found that dreams move backward in time as
the night progresses (Dement 71).
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In-text Citations
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When you mention the author's name in your sentence:
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(Page #)
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Example: Freud states that "a dream is the fulfillment of a wish" (154).
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In-text Citations
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When you cite more than one work by the same author:
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(Author’s Last Name, “Shortened Title” Page #)
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Example: One current theory emphasizes the principle that dreams express
"profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes,“Sleep” 184). But investigation
shows that young children's dreams are "rather simple and
unemotional"(Foulkes, “Dreams” 78).
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In-text Citations
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When the work has two or three authors:
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(Author’s Last Name and Other Author’s Last Name Page #)
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Example: “Psychologists hold that no two children are alike” (Gesell and Ilg
68).
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In-text Citations
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When the quotation is longer than four lines of text:
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Separate it from the paragraph and indent 1” from the left margin. As part of this
format, do not use quotation marks and place the period before parenthetical
citation
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Example:
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Kafka’s life reveals much about his interest in specific subject matter.
His job at the Worker's Accident Insurance provided him with a steady income and "regular“
office hours, so that he could dedicate his evenings to writing. His diaries contain continuing
accounts of his restlessness and sleeplessness as he would work all night writing, only to
return to the office for the next day of work, thoroughly exhausted. (Muenzer 32)
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In-text Citations
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Websites and sources with no identifiable author
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Use the institution that produced the text or use the title of the piece if no
specific institution is identified.
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Example: “Under the National Response Plan, the NRC will coordinate with other
Federal, State, and local emergency organizations in response to various types of
domestic events” (Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response).
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“Already used in some states, including Ohio, Maryland and Michigan, and pending
in a dozen or so others, the locks will undergo their first systematic trial in
California by summer” (“Drunkproofing Automobiles”).
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What are some good research strategies?
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Instead of trying to go in a straight line, think of the research process as a
cycle.
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Begin by gathering some information and reading what you find. Make notes
and ask yourself questions.
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Go back and gather some more information to try to answer your questions.
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Continue doing this until you feel that you understand your topic well enough
to write about it.
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Be sure to give yourself time to think about what you have learned. Good
writing means analyzing your material and thinking critically about it.
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Rutgers University http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ecollege/strategy.htm
What are some good research strategies?
Rutgers University http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ecollege/strategy.htm