If you summarize the author's work (write the author’s idea into your own words): include the page number at the end of the paragraph.
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After reading Chapter 5 in Women in World History, Volume 1, please write a 1 page summary of what was most interesting to you in that chapter. Include citations.
Follow these Citations Guidelines for Paper #1
Failure to provide citations will result in a grade of a D or lower.
Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation
- If you summarize the author's work (write the author’s idea into your own words): include the page number at the end of the paragraph.
- Example: A summary would include a few sentences and at the end you would include the citation like this. Kevin Reilly, a professor at Raritan Valley College, discussed yada yada yada. Blah blah blah. Reilly states, yada yada blah blah (12).
- If you don’t say the author’s name in the sentence and you summarize their work it would look like this (Reilly 12).
- If you paraphrase the author’s work (write the author's idea into your own words): include the page number at the end of what you paraphrased.
- Example: Your paraphrasing of Ben Skinner’s work is usually one sentence and it would look like this (32).
- If you don’t say the author’s name in the sentence and you summarize their work it would look like this (Skinner 32).
- If you include a quote: include the page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence.
- Example: According to Skinner, "your quote here" (12).
- If you don’t say the author’s name in the sentence and you summarize their work “it would look like this” (Skinner 12).
To learn more about citations, go to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
