Research paper is the clarification we derived from the sources available. Whenever we use some other writer’s work to do our research paper we have to give credit to the writer. If we do not acknowledge our writing with the original writer we will be committing serious academic offense which is plagiarism. Three acts which are regarded as plagiarism are failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks, and failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words (Hacker p.480).
Direct quotations from the original one should be cited. Common knowledge or the general ideas does not need to be cite beside that any ideas like summary, paraphrases, statistics, etc. taken from certain source should be cited. “The American Psychological Association recommends an author date system of citations” (p. 480). Author date systems of citations are as follows: “the source is introduced by a signal phrase that includes the last names of the authors followed by the date of publication in parentheses, the material being cited is followed by a page number in parentheses, at the end of the paper and alphabetized list of references gives complete publication information about the source” (p. 480). Borrowed exact language should be enclosed in quotation marks. At the end while writing summaries and paraphrases we have to write it in our own words.
Before learning citation I had less idea about how to do it. Now I know how to write citation at least in APA format which was taught in this chapter. I use to just write the author’s last name after the paraphrase of the writer and I always use to miss the parenthesis. After learning about the citation system I will use writer’s last name and page number form where the paraphrase is taken and will use parenthesis for the sentences copied exactly form the original source.
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