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DOCUMENTATION

  • Use documentation when citing sources by quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing and then giving the credibility as researchers and writers
  • Cover the documentation styles with MLA and APA
  • APA is used mainly in the social sciences
  • Both are two part systems that consits of:

1. Brief intext parenthetical documentation for quotations, paraphrases, or summaries

2. More-detailed documentation in a list of sources at the end of the text

  • MLA and APA require that the end-of-text documentation provide the following basic information about each source you cite:

- author, editor, or organization providing the information

- title of work

- place of publication

- name of organization or company that published it

- date when it was published

- retrieval information for online source

  • There are more than two types of documentation styles. We focus on MLA and APA because that is mostly what college students are required to use
  • As the examples show, when you cite a work in your text, you can name the author either in a signal phrase or in parentheses.
  • If you name the author in a signal phrase, give the page number(s) in parentheses; when the author's name is not given in a signal phrase, include it in the parentheses

Modern Language Association (MLA)

In-Text Documentation:

As Lester Faigley puts i, "The world has become a bazaar from which to shop for an individual 'lifestyle' " (12)

As one observer suggests, "The world has become a bazaar from which to shop for an individual 'lifestyle' " (Faigley 12)

Work Cited Documentation

Faigsley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992. Print.

American Psychological Association (APA)

In-Text Documentation

As Faigsley (1992) suggested, "The world has become a bazaar from which to shop for an individual 'lifestyle'" (p. 12)

As an observer has noted, "The world has become a bazaar from which to shop for an individual 'lifestyle' " (Faigley, 1992, p. 12)

author title publication

Reference-List Documentation

Faigley, L. (1992). Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

By Kyle Wilson, Amanda Wolter, Jessica Rosengold and Manny Rutinel

Two Types:

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