In Text Citation

If you don't have an author to cite, what do you do for an in-text citation?

• use the title of the article, and PUT IT IN ALL CAPS

• use the title of the article instead

• use the URL

• just skip it and do nothing

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When do you use in-text citations? 

• When you paraphrase someone else's ideas

• When you summarize someone else's ideas 

• When you use the exact words of someone else

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why do we need to use in-text citations?

• So the reader can see where you got the information that you are borrowing.

• So you don't plagiarize by not giving credit to other people for their ideas or words.

• Because your teacher says so.

• Both 1 and 2 are correct

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In-text citations appear where in the paper? 

• at the end

• throughout

• at the beginning

• nowhere

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If the author's last name is used in the sentence, then you ______ need it in the parentheses (for an in-text citation). 

• do

• don't

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If the name of the article is really long, are you allowed to shorten it for an in-text citation? 

• yes

• no

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is a correct in-text citation using the following biographical entry?
Wordsworth, William.1967 Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P. 365. 

• Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."(Wordsworth 365)

• Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of feelings” (365). 

• Both in-text citations are correct.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When you paraphrase, you are using someone's ideas, and not their exact words. Do you still need to cite your source? 

• yes

• no

• only sometimes

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In-text citations are ____________________ source citations.

• the same thing as

• different from

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the primary purpose of an in-text citation in academic writing?

• To provide a summary of the text

• To give credit to the original source

• To make the text more interesting

• To increase the word count

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9