ENG 1131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Apa Style

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1131
• Professor: Jeanie Warnock

Document Summary

Library: print and online reference books, encyclopedia, dictionaries, yearbooks, and fact books, library catalogue, library databases. Maintain a working bibliography to keep track of your sources. No: established facts (historical dates, treaties, current news) that you may not know personally. Yes: someone else"s words, or ideas in a direct quote. Yes: the structure and organization of someone else"s summary of what are established facts, eg; a wikipedia entry. The facts may be established, but the way they"re being ordered is the writer"s. 4. consulted for the paper, whether cited or not. Integrate your citation into the flow of your paragraph and the grammatical structure of the sentence that introduces it. How do i integrate research material smoothly and effectively: provide a introductory context for the material. Give author"s name and/or title of source. Mention author"s credentials: make your evidence speak! Be sure that you explain how the quotation supports or illustrates the point being argued.