How do I properly cite a statistic that is quoted in my essay? The teacher is looking for something like this: "Blah blah blah..."(something)
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2006-12-02 12:06:35 · 3 answers · asked by Brian 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Im quoting "nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare" from http://www.familyfirstaid.org/teen-pregnancy.html. please help
2006-12-02 12:09:12 · update #1
You'll want to use MLA style referencing. See below.
2006-12-02 13:59:23 · answer #1 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
parenthetical documentation, fancy word for citing your work....say that your source is from a book that i wrote and i said, dogs are all colors brown, black, blue, and orange. so you want to put that you your paper so it would look something like this
"Dogs are all colors brown, black, blue, and orange" (Danielle, 23)
the name which is suppose to be the authors last name comes
first, then a comma then the page you got it from. If you are qouting more than four lines skip a line tab and then write.
Statistics are the same way, just put who, and where you got in from in () and it is correctly cited...hope i helped.
2006-12-02 20:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Danielle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"the quote." (author's last name and page# if there is one) new sentence.
Hope this helps.
2006-12-02 20:12:11 · answer #3 · answered by midnightjoker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋