Jamica Williams
2/28/2018
This article organized it entire chapter into two different sections. 1. How to integrate sources and 2. How to cite and document sources using two popular documentation styles (367).
By integrating the sources they mean how do confirmed sources back up an authors claims. This is an important part of writing as most of the information we write about comes from someone else ideas. For example research essays and argumentative essays most likely come from someone else who put in the work to get that information first. So its important to give credit to the original author. Also this chapter talks about how to cite sources in the two most common ways MLA and APA format. MLA style writing is most commonly used in English and some humanities courses (395). APA style writing is most commonly used in behavioral and social science courses (415).
To reference another persons work within an essay authors should use 'In Text Citations' these include the Last name of the author and page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence where the quote or paraphrase happened. These are helpful for a reader to reference the source used if they wanted to. Paraphrasing is rewording a source. Summarizing is shortening an entire document or speech into half or less than the original. Quotes are a word for word excerpt from a source. Each of these come in handy depending on what kind of essay you write.
2/28/2018
This article organized it entire chapter into two different sections. 1. How to integrate sources and 2. How to cite and document sources using two popular documentation styles (367).
By integrating the sources they mean how do confirmed sources back up an authors claims. This is an important part of writing as most of the information we write about comes from someone else ideas. For example research essays and argumentative essays most likely come from someone else who put in the work to get that information first. So its important to give credit to the original author. Also this chapter talks about how to cite sources in the two most common ways MLA and APA format. MLA style writing is most commonly used in English and some humanities courses (395). APA style writing is most commonly used in behavioral and social science courses (415).
To reference another persons work within an essay authors should use 'In Text Citations' these include the Last name of the author and page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence where the quote or paraphrase happened. These are helpful for a reader to reference the source used if they wanted to. Paraphrasing is rewording a source. Summarizing is shortening an entire document or speech into half or less than the original. Quotes are a word for word excerpt from a source. Each of these come in handy depending on what kind of essay you write.
I agree that summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting will be very helpful with our research papers. Good work!
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of ways in which to integrate sources, and a way to help to choose which way is appropriate depends on the source itself and the structure of your paper.
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