Quoting

Practice

Original text:

Chinese as a universal language is another option as it is already the language spoken by the largest number of people, but English is spoken more widely.

•Delete part of this quote (make sure the grammar is still correct).

•Add some information – e.g. clarify Chinese as Mandarin, or specify how many people speak Chinese.

Quoting

Practice – possible answer

Original text (from article 1):

Chinese as a universal language is another option as it is already the language spoken by the largest number of people, but English is spoken more widely.

Quote with deleted text and extra information:

“Chinese [Mandarin] as a universal language is another option … but English is spoken more widely” (Phunny, 2009, p.59).

Quoting

Quoting someone who was quoted by someone else

Original text (from article 1):

There have been many examples of artificial languages including Volapük, Esperanto, Occidental and Interlingua. The last two were “designed primarily for scientific and technical use and stress recognizability rather than active speech” (Katzner, 1987, p.37).

Quote:

Katzner (as cited in Phunny, 2009, p.59) explains that Occidental and Interlingua were “designed primarily for scientific and technical use and stress recognizability rather than active speech”.

Quoting

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’s1993 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-Text

Referencing Rules

•Use ‘&’ only in brackets

•3 - 5 authors - use all names first time and then first person + et al. e.g. (Jones et al., 2005)

•6+ authors - use first name + et al. (4+ Harvard)

•Group authors can be abbreviated in subsequent entries

–e.g. 1st time: (Australian Taxation Office, 2010), later (ATO, 2010)

•No author - use the title

–APA shorten title if it’s long and use “ ” for websites or articles (“Fire!”, 2009) and italics for brochures or reports

–Harvard use italics (Fire! 2009)

Summary

•Check your quotes have an author, year and page / para number.

•Make sure that you paraphrase the idea clearly and are not using the same words or format as the original.

Further Information

•Student Learning Support Community iLearn

•Indiana University Website

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.sh tml

• Bond University Plagiarism Policy

http://www.bond.edu.au/plagiarism-academic-dishone sty-policy