Step 1: Find a brief
section from a source that you could possibly use in the
project you are working on.
Step 2: Quote the
section in full, providing an in-text citation, as if you were using it
in your paper.
Step 3: Paraphrase
the section, providing an in-text citation, as if you were using it in
your paper.
Step 4: Provide a
reference citation to the source you are using.
EXAMPLE:
Quotation(Author’s
Exact Words)
Direct
Quote in My Paper: According to
Raymond (2017), “Deaths from colon cancer occur twice as often in women
as in men, but the media have made it seem that breast cancer is the
number one killer of women" (p. 12). This misrepresentation is but one
example of how the mass media distort our view women.
Please note:
A signal phrase such
as "According to ..." or "Raymond states, . . . " is used to introduce
a direct quote. The quote is followed by the student author's own words
that integrate the quote into the paragraph.
The
author’s last name together with (2009) constitute the in-text
citation, which refers to the source listed alphabetically on
the last page of your
paper. Since the author's name ("Raymond") is mentioned in the
sentence,
it is not repeated inside the parentheses.
Any direct wording
from the original source must be in quotation marks.
In-text citations use
only the author's last name, not any initials.
Paraphrase(Rewritten in My Phrasing)
Paraphrase
in My Paper:
Although twice as many women die from colon cancer as men, the media
choose to focus on breast cancer as the main threat to women's health
(Raymond,
2017, p. 12). This misrepresentation is but one
example of how the mass media distort our view women.
Please note:
Key words of the
original have been repeated ("women," "media," "colon cancer," "breast
cancer") but the quote has been successfully translated into the
author's own phrasing.
The in-text citation
appears at end of the sentence with the author's name inside
parentheses.
The period for the
sentence goes after the citation.
The paraphrase is
followed by the student author's own words that integrate the source
material into the paragraph.
Reference Citation
Raymond, P. (2017). Colon cancer:
Healthy women. Retrieved October 21, 2017 fromhttp://www.healthywomen.org/condition/colon-cancer
