Quoting directly can add flare to you essay!
Sometimes, an author may have explained a concept perfectly and it seems to work well in your paper just the way the author wrote it..
Your readers may want to explore the work of others for their own education, just as you have done.
There are other reasons, but you get the idea.
Include quotation marks around the words you are borrowing, to signal that they are not your own.
Add an in-text citation at the end of the borrowed words to indicate the origin of the borrowed words. In APA there are usually three parts to an in-text citation. (Author’s surname, publication year, page number(s))
In most cases, you will not quote lengthy segments of another person’s work and your essay should not be overrun with direct quotations.
Include context to explain the purpose of adding the quotation to your own work and review the section to check that the quotation directly relates to what you are trying to say in your own essay.
Remember those nine pages that Chris Spence copied and pasted into his dissertation? Putting quotation marks around that would still not cut it!
In this exercise, we will work with a passage of text from Susan D. Blum’s book, MY Word!: Plagiarism and college culture. Try to design an appropriate direct quote that incorporates the elements of quotation marks, in-text citation, reasonable length, and context.
Here is the passage you will work with:
“Students who plagiarize, who improperly incorporate someone else’s text into their own without giving credit, may be committing a grave academic misdeed. Some really don’t know how to avoid it, because the rules are terribly subtle and take many years to master. Some deliberately do so to get the job done. There are many motives, many reasons, many biographical details” (Blum, 2009, p. 6).
In her research on students and plagiarism, Blum (2009) notes that, “Some [students] really don’t know how to avoid it, because the rules are terribly subtle and take many years to master” (p. 6).
Elements:
"Quotation marks enclose the directly quoted text."
There is proper use of in-text citing: Blum (2009)... (p. 6).
The direct quote is not unusually long. In this case, it is just over twenty words in length.
Relevant context has been included: In her research on students and plagiarism, Blum (2009) notes that,
Wondering why [students] is enclosed in square brackets in our example above?
Answer: APA style wants to maximize the readability of your written work. Therefore, allowances are made with the rules for quoting directly. In this example, square brackets enclose the word [students] to capture Blum's meaning and to signify that this word is not a part of the directly quoted material.
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