Monday, May 31, 2010
Kind of citations
Different organizations have their own citation styles. There are many of them, but two major categories are the Humanities and the Sciences. Some important citation styles from both the categories are listed at this website below.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Say no to plagiarism
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/10314.html
As there is increase in the no of plagiarism complaints, i try to provide this link to all my readers to decrease it. The information covered in this is in a huge no. It consists information from definition of plagiarism to how to avoid it doing in-text citations. It even has the steps how citation can be done and even how to add it in the text.
Helpful link for APA IN-Text citation
URL: http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/apa
This link provides information from audio to visual resources for APA IN-Text citation. This should cover all the information how to do in-text citation, and even how to prepare reference page. In short this link makes it easy to do in-text citation (saving us from plagiarism).
In-text Citations
I found this video very interesting, it explains APA in-text citation very briefly. It explains questions like why in-text citations are used; how they are used; and when they are used.
APA In-Text citation
For our report, we need to use APA style in-text citations, so I thought, I should share this information with our group. Basically in text citations are used to refer to the source of writer's inspiration, so if reader wants to get more information about writer's source, they can refer to the reference list. APA style in-text citation includes following elements:
- Author’s name (if known) or we can use name of organization, if it is cooperate or if author is unknown then we can use source title.
- Year
- Page number
I found following website very use full for APA in-text citation.
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/documentation/APAintext.html
How to write good research report
If we want to write a good research report we have to keep few things in mind. We need to take lots of notes while researching and our notes should clearly point out location of information for any paraphrase or quote of original text, this will help us to write proper citation; and secondly we need to make sure that we are using others work as a primary source not just copy their work.
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