Thursday, October 23, 2008

Integrating Sources into a paper

1.1 Differences between primary and secondary sources
1.2 Acknowledging your sources
1.3 Careful citing suggests to your reader that you are trustworthy
1.4 No one knows how to cite correctly so just ask your instructor what they like

2.1 Use sources as concisely as possible, summarize
2.2 Never leave you reader in doubt when sing a source
2.3 Always make your sources clear to your argument
2.4 Underline or italicize book titles
2.5 Quote only what you need or what is striking
2.6 construct your sentence so that the quote fits neatly
2.7 Announce a quote with the words preceding it
2.8 Chose your announcing verb carefully
2.9 Don’t automatically put a comma before a quotation
2.10 Put a period or comma at the end of a quotation inside the close-quotation mark
2.11 Use a slash (/) to indicate a line-break in a quoted passage of poetry
2.12 Punctuate the end of a quotation embedded in your sentence with whatever punctuation your sentence requires
2.13 Otherwise, quote verbatim
2.14 Indent blocks
2.15 Indent all lines 10 spaces from the left of the margin (this goes against all rules of typography and I disagree whole heartedly with it)
2.16 Don’t put an indented block in quotation marks
2.17 Tell your readers in advance who is about to speak and what to be listening for
2.18 Construct your lead-in sentence so that it ends with a colon
2.19 Follow up a block quotation with commentary that reflects on it and makes clear why you needed to quote it
2.20 When using an in-text parenthetic citation, put your citation of a block quotation outside the period at the end of the last sentence quoted.
2.21 Use discursive notes to state something that is not directly related

3.1 Cite only whenever you use factual information or data you found in a source, whenever you quote verbatim, Whenever you summarize, paraphrase, or otherwise use ideas, opinions, interpretations, or conclusions arrived at by another person, whenever you make use of a source passage’s distinctive structure, organizing strategy, or method, whenever you mention in passing some aspect of another person’s work
3.2 Don't Cite when the source and page-location of the relevant passage are obvious, When dealing with “common knowledge,” When you use phrases that have become part of everyday speech, and when you draw on ideas or phrases that arose in conversation
3.3 Methods of citing; sequential notes, in text citing, coding.
3.4 Acknowledging uncited sources.

4.1 Misuse of sources.
4.2 Don't plagiarize
4.3 Plagiarism is uncited information or data from a source and uncited ideas, verbatim is uncited, uncited structure or organizing strategy
4.4 Misrepresenting Evidence
4.5 Improper collaboration
4.6 Dual or overlapping submission
4.7 Abetting plagiarism
4.8 Be careful to cite online sources as well
4.9 You will be expelled
4.10 To avoid Plagiarism don't procrastinate, don't use secondary sources, take notes actively, don't plagerize.

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