Quotation and Citation Homework

Part I.  For each example, indicate whether you should or should not cite a source for the information in your paper. 

Y=Cite the source
N=No need to cite the source

_____         1.  You have found essentially the same information in several sources; you use this information to make an important point in your paper.  

 _____        2.  You have summarized a series of events from a primary source.  

 _____        3. In your opening paragraph you have indicated that you will discuss the work of other researchers in more detail later on in your paper.

_____         4. You have summarized a major argument from a book.  The argument took several pages to develop in the book but you have given the main idea in a couple of sentences.

_____         5. You have quoted a colorful description from another source.

_____         6. You have closely paraphrased (idea-by-idea) a passage from a journal article.  

_____         7.  You have mentioned in your paper a curious detail which was mentioned in passing in another work.  

Part II.  For all of the examples below, you should cite sources (footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical notes), but you do not necessarily need quotation marks for all of them.  For each example, indicate whether you should or should not use quotation marks. 

Y=Use quotation marks for the whole sentence
Y/N=Use quotation marks for part of the sentence
N=Do not use quotation marks
R=Rewrite to make either a quotation or a summary

_____         8.  You have written a sentence using key words and several phrases from one sentence of your source, but have put them in a new order with a few words of your own.

 _____         9.  You have taken the exact words from one sentence in your source, but have left out the first few words of the original and have added a few words of your own at the beginning to introduce the words of your source.

 _____         10.  You have reproduced exactly a striking phrase of a couple of words from your source in a sentence otherwise written by you.

 _____         11.  You have used the exact words of a sentence of your source in its entirety.

 _____         12.  Your source quotes a sentence from another source and you quote the quotation within a quotation.