Integrating sources into a paper can be challenging. How much of a source do you use? When should you use quotation marks? It is important to remember that you are the author of a paper, so sources are properly used to back up your own arguments, not state an argument in themselves, so how you use them depends on the structure of your paper and your argument. Show
Let's use this paragraph from a scholarly article to illustrate examples of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing a source These results suggest that morning people, or early chronotypes—as measured on the morningness–eveningness continuum are more proactive than are evening types. Additionally, the misalignment of social and biological time, as assessed by the difference between rise times on weekdays and on free days, correlated with proactivity, suggesting that people with a high misalignment of social and biological time may be less able to act in a proactive manner, probably because of sleep delay. Their biological schedules seem not to fit neatly into social demands (e.g., school, university, work schedules) as do those of less misaligned people. Randler, C. (2009). Proactive people are morning people. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(12), 2787-2797. Quoting
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Examples using the paragraph above: Note that when summarizing, you do not always have to include the page number as you are summarizing the findings from the whole study, rather than just a small part of it. Used with permission from Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, Fitchburg State University In which situation would a quote be more useful than paraphrasing and summarizing?Choose a direct quote when it is more likely to be accurate than would summarizing or paraphrasing, when what you're quoting is the text you're analyzing, when a direct quote is more concise that a summary or paraphrase would be and conciseness matters, when the author is a particular authority whose exact words would ...
What is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing Brainly?1. Paraphrasing is writing any particular text in your own words while summarizing is mentioning only the main points of any work in your own words.
When you put a direct quote into your own words and cite it in your work what are you doing?Paraphrasing is a way for you to start processing the information from your source. When you take a quote and put it into your own words, you are already working to better understand, and better explain, the information. The more you can change the quote without changing the original meaning, the better.
When used to include direct quotes in a report what is the main purpose of a tag phrase?to indicate who said or wrote the direct quote.
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