Incorporating Research into Your Paper

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Incorporating Research into Your Paper

• (from Perspectives on Contemporary Issues)

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MLA Style

• Two components in-text citations and works cited
  list
• Parenthetical citations are part of the sentence
  but not part of the quotation
• When no authors name is available, use
  abbreviated version of the title
• No punctuation between authors name and page
  number

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Paraphrasing

• Paraphraseexpression of authors ideas in your
  own words (unlike a summary, not necessarily
  shorter than the original)
• Use a paraphrase when the wording of the original
  is not particularly impressive or memorable.
• Use parenthetical citations to indicate source.
• A paper will be more interesting and more
  readable if you paraphrase more often than you
  quote (64).

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Quoting

• Use quotations when the wording is particularly
  memorable or apt.
• Make sure to reproduce the quoted passage
  exactly, and to place quotation marks accurately.
• Use brackets or ellipses if you must change the
  wording in a quotation (pp. 72-4).
• When possible, name the author as you lead into
  the quotation.
• Use parenthetical citations to indicate sources.
• Use single quotation marks to indicate a
  quotation within a quotation (p. 74).

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Integrating Source Material

• Quotations cannot stand alone, says Miss
  Russell.
• Introduce all direct and indirect borrowings in
  some way (SF Writer 92).
• Leading smoothly into source material (pp. 70-1)
• Indent quotations of more than four lines. (Do
  not use quotation marks for indented passages.)