I will formally reference in the Microteach and Case Study write-ups.
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| Quoting If you quote the exact words of an author, this is called a direct quotation. The layout of these depends on the length of the quotation. |
| Short quotations (up to 2 or 3 lines), should be included within the body of your assignment. It is up to you whether you choose to use ‘single quotation marks’ or “double quotation marks”, but be consistent throughout your assignment. E.g. According to Smith (2017, p.123) ‘Your short quote would look like this’. |
| Longer quotations (4 lines or more) should be indented as a separate paragraph, and without any quotation marks, e.g. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. Your longer quote would look like this. (Smith, 2017, p. 123). |
| Paraphrasing This is when you re-write someone else’s words in your own words, which can often improve the flow of your work. However, it is essential that you still reference the original author(s) to give credit to their work, and to make it clear that you are not plagiarising / passing the ideas off as your own. Paraphrasing could look like this: Smith (2017, p. 53) outlines the need for greater clarity of purpose….. You’ll see above that there is still reference to the author / date / page number, but no need for quotation marks. |
| Summarising Summarising is when you refer to the main points covered by a book, chapter, report or a webpage. It does not go into the same level as detail as paraphrasing, because you are referring to a larger piece of work than perhaps a paragraph or page. Summarising could look like this: In her study of Greek legend and contemporary art (Appleton, 2015), it is clear that many contemporary artists continue to pay homage to Greek mythology. The example above summarises a whole chapter into one sentence, but still references the author and date to acknowledge the work of the original author. |
As you can see, every time you quote, paraphrase or summarise someone else’s work, you need to include the author(s), date and, where applicable, page numbers. This is called the citation.
Every citation refers the reader to the full reference in your bibliography.
In the ‘summarising’ example above, the reader could look at your bibliography for the full reference, which would provide them with enough details to find the same version of the book by Appleton that you read.
In your bibliography it might look like this:
Appleton, C. (2015) Greek gods, men and monsters in contemporary art. Phaidon Press: London.