InfoGuides: UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Radmehr): MLA/APA Citations

Last Updated: Apr 3, 2023 1:11 AM

Why Should we use Citations?

Why Do We Need to Cite Sources for Papers or Presentations?

you need to acknowledge another person's work and ideas and give him credit.
gain credibility as your paper shows you did the research to evaluate and select the best sources.
avoid plagiarism.
sources are easier to find for the reader.

How Do You Incorporate Sources Within Your Paper or Presentation?

Quoting--Copy a line or two word for word, set off by quotation marks.
Summarizing--Restate the main ideas in your own words which is shorter than the original.
Paraphrasing--Take an idea and put it in your own words.

APA

APA (American Psychological Association) style was established in order to create a simple set of procedures, or “style” guidelines, that would codify the many components of scientific writing. “Scientific” includes both some of the physical sciences as well as the social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, criminal justice, sociology, etc.

APA Citation Examples

The American Psychological Association's own website which offers many examples of the most commonly cited types of sources. For a list of examples for different types of sources, click on the tab entitled, "Style and Grammar Guidelines."

Ebooks

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition, is the official source for APA Style. Guides users through the scholarly writing process-from the ethics of authorship to reporting research through publication. Resources for students on writing and formatting annotated bibliographies, response papers, and other paper types as well as guidelines on citing course materials
APA Guidelines - 7th Edition
Publication Date: 2020-05-01
Quick reference guide to the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association's publication manual for rules of punctuation, reference citation, structure and format across six handy pages filled with the answers you need for these commonly used guidelines.

MLA

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the language arts, cultural studies, and other humanities disciplines.

MLA’s own website is not complete, but it does offer examples of how to cite five basic source types. You can click on an entry to get more information, as well as find links to posts with more examples.

Physical Book

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language; The Modern Language Association of America
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style. The new, ninth edition builds on the MLA's unique approach to documenting sources using a template of core elements.

Academic Integrity and Citation

Rochester Institute of Technology strives to create an environment where student, staff, and faculty hold themselves to high standards of academic integrity. The policies regarding student academic integrity are outlined very clearly on the University Policies' webpage. A violation of student academic integrity may fall into any of the three following areas:

Cheating - Cheating is defined by the Student Academic Integrity Policy as "any form of fraudulent or deceptive academic act, including falsification of data, possessing, providing, or using unapproved materials, sources, or tools for a project, exam, or body of work submitted for faculty evaluation."
Duplicate Submission - "Duplicate submission is the submitting of the same or similar work for credit in more than one course without prior approval of the instructors for those same courses."
Plagiarism - The final form of academic integrity breach is plagiarism, which is described by the Student Academic Integrity Policy as "the representation of others’ ideas as one’s own without giving proper attribution to the original author or authors. Plagiarism occurs when a student copies direct phrases from a text (e.g. books, journals, and internet) and does not provide quotation marks or paraphrases or summarizes those ideas without giving credit to the author or authors. In all cases, if such information is not properly and accurately documented with appropriate credit given, then the student has committed plagiarism."

For more information and to read the Student Academic Integrity Policy in full, please follow this link.

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