Paraphrasing, Citing & Referencing

Research Skills

Summarising, Paraphrasing, & Citing

Multiple Choice

... is when you put information in your own words, but keep the original meaning.

• Summarising

• Paraphrasing

• Referencing

• Quoting

Multiple Choice

... is when you put information in your own words and cut out unnecessary details.

• Paraphrasing

• Summarising

• Quoting

• Citing

Open Ended

Summarise this statement:

Life in contemporary Cuba is challenging, given the limited access to food, transportation, electrical power, and other necessities.

We often (not always) use a signal phrase to indicate that we are using ideas from another source.

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Here are some examples:

• According to [Author’s Name or Source Name], …

• [Author’s Name] writes (that)  …

• [Author’s Name] claims (that) ...

• In [Name of Source] it is claimed (that) … 

​Signal Phrases

Open Ended

Write a signal phrase with this source information:

Author's name - Mary Fitzgerald

Title of Source - Where Did My Cheese Go?

In-Text Citation

An in-text citation is when you indicate the source in your writing immediately before or after the quotation, paraphrase, or summary. We need to indicate the author and year of publication. Sometimes page numbers are given, too.

Examples

• According to Stevens (2017), “in 1707 the European population of Cape Colony stood at 1,779 individuals.”

• Approximately 1800 Europeans lived in Cape Colony in 1707 (Stevens, 2017).

Open Ended

Write a signal phrase AND paraphrase the following quotation using the given information.

 

Author: William McIntosh          Date of Publication: 2004

“Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, and published in 1897, was the most popular literary work derived from vampire legends.”