Sources citations

Decide if you need to give a reference:

Data you found from your own primary research

• YES

• NO

A graph from an internet article

• YES

• NO

An item of common knowledge (e.g. exercise is good for you)

• YES

• NO

An idea of your own based on reading several sources

• YES

• NO

A comment made by a person you interviewed for your project

• YES

• NO

"Kelman (2016) maintains that the transition from school to university study is particularly hard in terms of writing essays. She refers to McEwan’s research on the mismatch between student and teacher expectations, and highlights the need to give students time to adapt to a new academic culture."

Is this a summary or a quotation?

• a summary

• a quotation

• both: a summary and a quotation

• none of them

How many in-text citations are there in this paragraph?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

6. There are .... sets of sources cited in this paragraph.

7. (a number)

Quotation is using the .......... words of another writer to illustrate an argument or idea.

• suitable

• appropriate

• exact

• summarizing

The original text used to obtain an idea of a piece of information is called a .......

(6 letters, starts with "s")