ENGL109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Apa Style
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Gives credit to other writers, researchers, and thinkers for ideas you have borrowed. Use apa style in your technical work report: (last name / organization, date) at the end of the sentence you are citing. Add quotation marks around words if you quote them directly from a source: followed by in-text citation. Try to paraphrase if the exact wording does not matter (then cite in-text) Commas and periods go inside the closing quotation mark. Use square brackets if you insert or change a word in a quotation (e. g. tense) Never use a quotation as an entire sentence, use phrases to introduce the quote: the author argues , as the author shows , research shows that . Try to comment on all quotations in your own words to tie it back to your main point. Summarizes the main idea of a paragraph (usually the rst sentence)
