COMM 1100 Lecture 4: Citation and Outline
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Apa is a set of standard that is applied to journals, books, and electronic databases that enables students and researchers to find key information. Use to ensure credit is given for information that has been referenced. Used to avoid plagiarism, which is unethical and illegal. Plagiarism is defined as taking another person"s language or ideas as your own. Wholesale plagiarism is taking the entirety of someone"s else"s work and claiming it as your own. Patchwork plagiarism is editing together two or more sources and claiming it as your own. The more aspects of speaking and listening such as being truthful objective, fair and respectful. Using oral citations you should use: type of source, author sponsoring or organization name, title or description of source, date of publication, the last name(s) of the author(s) For quotations you must add quotation marks and the page number. In text citation can come before or after the information.
