I’ve always worried citing too much. Is it better to paraphrase or quote directly from the source? Most often I choose to just quote directly from the source and have I have to cite again. I guess better safe than sorry.
Thank you for the PowerPoint overview, Amanda. I think that I have learned from the information here, and the readings over the last several weeks, that citing plays a much larger role when composing research reports or critical reviews of other’s academic contributions than what I have become accustom to in a traditional argumentative or analytical papers. I have always thought that I cited well, but I feel now that I’ll have to be much more aware of crediting sources that contributed to my understanding of a topic and not just citing when I’m pulling statistics or quotes directly from their contributions.
I’ve always worried citing too much. Is it better to paraphrase or quote directly from the source? Most often I choose to just quote directly from the source and have I have to cite again. I guess better safe than sorry.
Hi Adam, It’s best to paraphrase. After all, you aren’t using their words for whyever they wrote them, but for whatever you are arguing. And using Narrative Citations allow you to re-use a source in multiple sentences in a row without getting bogged down with citations: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/parenthetical-versus-narrative
Thank you for the PowerPoint overview, Amanda. I think that I have learned from the information here, and the readings over the last several weeks, that citing plays a much larger role when composing research reports or critical reviews of other’s academic contributions than what I have become accustom to in a traditional argumentative or analytical papers. I have always thought that I cited well, but I feel now that I’ll have to be much more aware of crediting sources that contributed to my understanding of a topic and not just citing when I’m pulling statistics or quotes directly from their contributions.