Quotations and Paraphrasing Presentation (Group 4)

Quotations and Paraphrasing

Hussain Alsufair

Victoria Peterson

Faisal Alhajiri





Introduction

• Why quotations and paraphrasing is used
• What plagarism is
• What quotes are
• What paraphrasing is

Quotations

• Two parts of quotations
• Direct
• Indirect (or paraphrasing)
• When/how to use quotations
• To support an argument
• Use the most important part of the quotation
• How to introduce a quotation with the author's name / describe the source of the quotation

Paraphrasing

• Two methods: Literal and Free
• Literal- substitute original words
• Free- Used in final drafts, completely rearange words and sentence structure
• Reasons to use paraphrasing
• To retell a passage (usually to make sure the reader can understand)
• To explain what a passage or idea means

APA Style

• APA is the American Psychological Association
• This reference system is used for disciplines such as:
• Education
• Buisness
• Science
• What you need (it varries from what kind of source you got the quote from):
• Author's name
• Date / Published Date
• Website, book, article title, etc.
• If a quote is longer than 40 words, quotation marks would no longer be used. Instead, the quote must be indented and seperated from the rest of the text.
• When paraphrasing, elipses must be used (...)
• When changing words slightly, square brackets must be used

MLA Style

• MLA is the Modern Language Assosication
• It is used as a reference system for Liberal Arts and Humanities
• Always have to use the author's name in the text unless there is no documented author
• How to use quotations
• Use quotation marks with short quotations (four lines or less), must cite the author and the page number.
• Quotations longer than four lines must be indented

APA information link
MLA information link