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Direct Quotations
Paraphrase
Summaries
Arguments
Ideas
Should have more
in-text citations than
direct quotations
How often should I cite my sources?
When in doubt, every 2-3 sentences
General or common knowledge
does not require citation
Anything you can find in the dictionary or encyclopedia is common knowledge
Too many direct quotations is like a speed bump in your writing
Use them only when the original language cannot be reworded without loss of meaning
No more than 2
Paraphrase whenever possible
“And so he sounded very intelligent” (Smith 1999).
The truth is that the novel is a genre which resists exact definition. This in itself is not particularly striking, since many things—‘game’, for example, or ‘hairy’—resist exact definition. It is hard to say how ape-like you have to be in order to qualify as hairy. The point about the novel, however, is not just that it eludes definitions, but that it actively undermines them. It is less a genre than an anti-genre. It cannibalizes other literary modes and mixes the bits and pieces promiscuously together. You can find poetry and dramatic dialogue in the novel, along with epic, pastoral, satire, history, elegy, tragedy and any number of other literary modes. (Eagleton 2005)
Commas should always go inside quotation marks and double quotation marks should always be used, except for quotations within quotations.
Begins on a new page at the end of the body of the paper
Each entry in the reference list corresponds to a citation included in the paper
This is what distinguishes a reference list from a bibliography
Article titles aren’t enclosed in quotation marks
Titles of articles, books, chapters, essays, and articles are capitalized sentence-style, meaning only the first word of the title (and subtitle) is capitalized
Only newspaper, journal, and magazine titles should be capitalized headline-style
The date of publication should appear immediately after the author’s name
Eagleton, Terry. 2005. The English novel: An introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
Vickery, Amanda. 1999. From golden age to separate spheres? History Workshop Journal 55, 44-70
Allison, G. W. 1999. The implications of experimental design for biodiversity manipulations. American Naturalist 153 (1): 26-45.
Reference lists should be alphabetized
Second (and third or fourth) line(s) of entries should be indented
Entries for books with more than one author should only reverse the first author’s name and the other names should be in conventional order
Smith, Jonathan, and Giles Snyder. 2004. Civility in monkey behavior. New York: Primate Press