Quoting

•Presenting an idea or statement using the exact same words, grammatical structures and punctuation as the original.

•“Presenting an idea or statement using the exact same words, grammatical structures and punctuation as the original” (Student Learning Support, 2011, p.31).

How to quote

•Make sure you use the exact words

•Use quotation marks (“”)

•Put a page number for a book or journal article and a paragraph number (para.) or section for a long website

Example quotes

•“Laptop use is negatively associated with student learning and it poses a distraction to fellow students” (Fried, 2008, p.912).

•“The Coomera Town Centre was declared by the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning as a Master Planned Area on 18 December 2009” (Gold Coast City Council, 2010, para. 3)

Quoting

•If the exact words do not fit in with your sentence, change your sentence or paraphrase instead

•Be careful with verb tenses and punctuation (the reference is part of the sentence).

•Quoting also often involves paraphrasing

Quoting and paraphrasing

•Fried (2008, p. 921) found that “Laptop use is negatively associated with student learning” and created distractions with other students, particularly with the clicking sound of the keys.

Rules – long quotes

Quotations < 40 words should use double quotation marks, (“ ”).

Quotations > 40 words should appear in a free-standing block and omit quotation marks. The quotation should be started on a new line, indented five spaces from the left margin. For example:

Jones’1993 study found the following:

Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time citing sources. This difficulty could be attributed to the fact that many students failed to purchase a style manual or to ask their teacher for help (p. 199).

He also found that if they asked for help, they then found APA style simple.

In conclusion

•Read, understand, make your own notes

•Use a variety of techniques to change the original

•Always reference

•Remember :

–a paraphrase includes all info from original source

–a summary contains only main ideas of original

•An assignment is likely to contain a mixture of paraphrasing, summarising & direct quotation