Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Citations and documentation
In academic communities, we can get the information easily, the ethics of research demand that writers be credited for their work and their writing.
     If you use some sources from others article, you have to let people know. If you do not document you sources, or you do not write them in a right way, that is cheating.  Therefore, it is very important for us to learn how to do your reference in the end of your paper.
     How to documenting sources?
If you are using APA style for your reference list, consider this basic formula for online sources:
Author/Editor's Last Name, First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of article without. quotation marks. Title of Complete Work/Journal. Retrieved month, day, year, from the World Wide Web:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/  we can use the website, just put the information, and it will help to produce a right APA style reference.

These are the examples for APA style


If you are using MLA style for bibliographic citations, use the following general formula for online sources: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Work. “Title of Complete Work/Journal. 
               The date of publication. The date of access.  The URL In angle brackets.
And here is the website for MLA style references.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/


Conclusion:
Through this presentation, we know it’s important for us to document references in a correct way, and learn how to write references by using APA style and MLA style.

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