The Test Of Time
References, citations and related issues (Word version).
When writing a paper or report you must attribute specific facts and ideas to the person or persons from whom you obtained the information. It is bad form to "lift text from another source and put it in quotation marks," even if you attribute it to the correct source. At this point in your studies you should be able to digest the material and express it in you own words. Two exceptions are when another has expressed and idea with "precisely the correct words" - generally a uniquely elegant phrase - or if the other fellow "got it wrong" and you are attacking his position which is quoted verbatim to insure accuracy. It is unlikely that either of these situations will apply to your report for this course.
I wish you to cite appropriate information with superscripts that refer to endnotes (not footnotes that go at the bottom of each page). I suggest further that you use the "endnote" feature in Word. Put your cursor......
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