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ADDITIONAL

INFORMATIO
N
(Academic Writing)
■ Identifying sources of information is very important

■ Whenever the writer provides support and proof to


establish his ideas

■ The author may do this through:


– PARAPHRASING
– DIRECTLY QUOTING THE AUTHOR
– THROUGH IN-TEXT CITATION
PARAPHRASING
■ Also known as indirect
quotation
■  common when writing a
research paper
■ involves taking a passage -
either spoken or written - and
rewording it
■ to deliver information in a more
concise way
DIRECTLY
QUOTING THE
AUTHOR
■ a report of the
exact words of an
author or speaker
and is placed
inside quotation 
marks in a written
work
IN-TEXT
CITATION
■ a reference made
within the body of text
of an academic essay
■ The exact format of an
in-text citation will
depend on the style
you need to use (MLA,
APA, CHICAGO)
MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION OR
MLA
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)

■ Defined as a style of writing used for


college-level writing

■ Style of documentation that is based on a


general method that may be applied to every
possible source, to many different types of
writing
APA MLA
Spacing Double-spacing Double-spacing
Font/margins Times New Roman 12 Times New Roman 12
1” margins 1” margins

Direct in-text quotation (Moran, 2017, p.16) (Moran 16)


Indirect in-text quotation (Moran, 2017) According to Moran, this is a
controversial case (16).

Bibliography Name References Works Cited


1.Mitchell, M. (1936). 1.Mitchell, Margaret. Gone
Gone with the wind. with the Wind. The Macmillan
New York: The Group, 1936.
Macmillan Group.
Order of citations Alphabetical for authors Alphabetical for authors and for
Chronological for works works
IN CITATION, THE ELEMENTS
SHOULD BE LISTED IN THE
FOLLOWING ORDER:
■ Author  Number
■ Title of Source  Publisher
■ Title of Container  Publication Date
■ Other Contributors  Location
■ Version
TITLE OF SOURCE
■ Should follow the author’s name
■ Should be listed in italics or quotation marks
– Book should be in italics
– Website should be in italics
– Periodical should be in quotation marks
– Song or piece of music on an album should be
in quotation marks
TITLE OF CONTAINER
■ Usually italicized and followed by a comma,
since the information that follows next describes
the container
For example.
■ If you want to cite a poem that is listed in a
collection of poems, the individual poem is the
source, while the larger collection is the
container
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
■ In addition to the author, there may be other contributors
to the source who should be credited, such as:
– Editors
– Illustrators
– Translators
– Etc.
 If their contributions are relevant to your research, or
necessary to identify the source, include their names in
your documentation
VERSION
■ If the source is listed as an edition or
version of a work, include it in your
citation
NUMBER
■ If a source is part of a numbered sequence,
such as a multi-volume book, or journal
with both volume and issue numbers, those
numbers must be listed in your citation
PUBLISHER
■ Produces or distributes the source to the
public
■ List them in the citation if there is more
than one publisher and they are all relevant
to your research
■ Separated by a forward slash (/)
PUBLICATION DATE
■ Same source may have been published on more than one
date, such as an online version of an original source
■ When the source has more than one date, it is sufficient to
use the date that is most relevant to your use of it
■ If you are discussing historical context , you should cite
the full date

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