All i need to know is:
When do you cite something?
What if it is not a quote?- how do you know to cite it or not?
2007-02-28 11:56:34 · 4 answers · asked by holaaloha12345 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
If you are using someone else's thoughts put into different words, then it is a paraphrase and needs to be cited.
If it is anything other than your own thoughts or interpretations, it needs to be cited
This website might help: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/about/when.html
2007-02-28 12:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by crzywriter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You cite something when it is not your own material you are talking about. Like, If your writin an essay for example..you give proper credit to the people who's info you used. It could be from a magazine article, or a book, dictionary.. whatever.
If it's going in that essay.. write..
"Quote you want to cite" (Author or Source Name, Page Number if available)
2007-02-28 20:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cite something if it is not your own idea. there are different ways to cite. you could use harvard, APA, MLA or Turabian citation styles. if it is not a quote, then you should paraphrase it(read it then put it in words the way you understood it). You should always cite other people's work. otherwise, youd be charged of PLAGIARISM.
2007-02-28 20:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by WAHMaholic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in essays, papers, articles, and other types of non fiction that you would need to quote from a source to prove your point. You would not need to cite if it wasn't a quote, however, you would have to wrote a bibliography to give credit to all the sources that aided you in writing your paper.
2007-02-28 20:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by jj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋