Friday, May 8, 2020
How Does Citing a Work Accurately in Your Essay Work to Your Advantage?
How Does Citing a Work Accurately in Your Essay Work to Your Advantage?As an essay writer, I've noticed that citing a work incorrectly can be very detrimental. Often, students think that citing a source means simply using quotation marks, but in fact it's just a minor detail. In this article, I'll explain how exactly citing a work correctly works to your advantage as a writer.The way to get the most out of any research is to give it proper attention by giving it the correct citation. This is one of the key components that helps you become a better essay writer, and why it is so important to cite every single resource on your essay. It's easy for a student to be distracted and to only read the source and not really take the time to think about it.The first step to properly citing a work accurately is to identify whether you want to use quotation marks, or not. When I say 'not' I mean 'not.' You cannot simply put quotation marks around the name of a person or a company. You need to und erstand how 'not' applies.If you're doing a research paper on what it's like being a parent, and you find that there is a quote from a famous author on parenting, but the author didn't publish the quote, you cannot simply put quotation marks around that phrase. The quotation marks have to be in context, as if they were capitalized or not. The source for the quote has to be explicitly given to you. If it is not, then you're going to have to start over, and again, using quotation marks, or not.Not to make things easier for students, we can instead compare it to 'capitals' in your English classes. I see all the time where a student will put one or two under a part of a sentence, but when the phrase is actually emphasized, or it's clear what it means, those brackets become really big. Remember, those brackets are there for emphasis, and you have to use them in that capacity. So, if the author was actually quoted correctly, those brackets are necessary. If they weren't, then you are goin g to have to re-write the entire piece and re-write the citation.The second step to properly citing a work is to understand the type of citation you're going to use. We've already established the different types of citation, and we can now talk about the difference between referencing from a sentence, and citing from a paragraph. The first type of citation would be more like the 'a ' and the last type would be a 'the.'A 'the' is a great example of a properly cited article, because when it's located on a page, or an essay, that article is finished, and complete. A 'the' is completed by the author and is not going to change. However, when you cite a paragraph, your work is not 'complete.' You still have to refer back to the source, which may be a reference, or another paragraph. So, if the author was quoted correctly, you'd have to cite that as well.These are the two main steps in how does cite a work accurately work to your advantage as a writer. That is, citing properly cited, and o f course, referencing correctly.
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