citation & documentating information sources.

CITATION & DOCUMENTATING INFORMATION SOURCES

Why use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries?

Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries serve many purposes. You might use them to:

      Provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing.

Refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing.

Give examples of several points of view on a subject.

Call attention to a position that you wish to agree or disagree with.

Highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence, or passage by quoting the original.

Distance yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own.

Expand the breadth or depth of your writing.

 

The other types are signal phrases and in-text citation.

 For signal phrases, we introduce someone else's works. In-text citation are the parathetical pieces of information that appear ussually at the end of quote, paraphrase or summary.