Research Competencies: In-Text Citation Test Directions & Examples

Research Process Competencies:
3. In-Text Citation "Test" Directions & Examples
using correct APA or MLA Style
Deadlines: See updated WR 123 Course Plan

Preparation for In-Text Citation "Test":

EVERYBODY: Correct/update/revise your Annotated Working Bibliography - see handout:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr123/researchprocess_SSI_AWB.htm
NOTE WELL: You will not be able to construct correct In-Text Citations in APA or MLA style until after you have first correctly formatted bibliographical entries for all your sources in your Annotated Working Bibliography in your approved documentation style (i.e. APA or MLA). If you have questions or problems with this task, please consult Cora as soon as possible to help you do so.
Review the BR chapter for your approved documentation style:
- APA users: BR Ch. 19 "Using APA Style," especially 19a "How do I cite sources within the text of my document?" (pp. 276-279); and review examples of source citations in "APA-style Research Essay" (292-301)
- MLA users: BR Ch. 18 "Using MLA Style," especially 18a "How do I cite sources within the text of my document?" (pp. 244-247); and review examples of source citations in "MLA-style Research Essay" (pp. 266-273)
EVERYBODY: Read/Review in our BR textbook:
--Ch. 10b: "Quote Directly" (pp. 133-135), "Paraphrase" (pp. 135-138), "Summarize" (pp. 138-140);
--Ch. 13 "Integrating Sources" (pp. 173-187), esp. 13b on integrating quotations, 13c on integrating paraphrases, and 13d on integrating summaries;
--Ch. 14 "Avoiding Plagiarism"

General Directions for In-Text Citation "Test":

Provide examples drawn from actual sources documented in your current (corrected/revised/updated) Annotated Working Bibliography of each of the 7 types of in-text citations required:
1. Summary; 2. Paraphrase; 3. Short Direct Quotation; 4. Long "Block" Quotation; 5. Indirect Citation (Source Cited in Another Source); 6. Quotation from an "Unpaginated" Source; and
7. Citation from a Source with No Author ("Unsigned"). Each type is illustrated below.
To provide all the types of in-text citations required by this assignment, it is expected that you will be drawing upon at least two but probably more of the sources documented in your current updated/revised Annotated Working Bibliography.
In-Text Citation "Test" examples must be correctly formatted in your approved documentation style (i.e. APA or MLA) and these In-Text Citation "Test" references to sources must be correctly and clearly match-able to corresponding full bibliographical entries for those same sources provided in your Annotated Working Bibliography.
Both preliminary and final drafts of your In-Text Citation "Test" must be accompanied by a current, correct updated/revised version of your Annotated Working Bibliography--without which your workshop reviewers and Cora cannot determine whether your In-Text Citation "Test" examples work!
As noted above,"You will not be able to construct correct In-Text Citations in APA or MLA style until after you have first correctly formatted bibliographical entries for all your sources in your Annotated Working Bibliography in your approved documentation style (i.e. APA or MLA)."
LABEL and DOUBLE SPACE your preliminary and final drafts!

In-Text Citation "Test" Requirements & Examples:

1. SUMMARY: Write a sentence summarizing - in your own words - a main idea (e.g. thesis) of one your sources and integrating a correct in-text citation of the source summarized: in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and must be clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.
See also BR Ch. 10b: "Summarize" (pp. 138-140); Ch. 13d: "How can I integrate summaries" (pp. 183-185); and Ch. 14: "Avoiding Plagiarism" (pp. 188-195).

1.A. APA-Style SUMMARY In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

If you identify the source in your summary sentence:

Devlin (1999) explains the benefits of combining the social sciences and mathematics to chart human behavior.
Smith (n.d.) analyzes plausible reasons why attempts to return sign language-using apes to the wild have not been successful.
Inman and George (2004) argue that awareness of political issues enters the worldview of children at a very young age.

If you do not identify the source in your summary sentence:

One study has advanced the benefits of combining the social sciences and mathematics to chart human behavior (Devlin, 1999).
Attempts to return sign-language-using apes to the wild have had mixed results (Smith, n.d.).
Although studies have shown that the behavior of peers and family members affects the development of eating disorders in children, no clear patterns have been established (Phares, Steinberg, & Thompson, 2005).

1.B. MLA-Style SUMMARY In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

If you identify the source in your summary sentence:

Nancy Morris has examined the roles of women in Thomas Hardy's novels.
Wayne E. Franits explains the domestic roles that wives and husbands were commonly expected to fulfill in seventeenth-century Dutch society.
In his essay "Poetic Principle," Edgar Allan Poe announced the doctrines on which he based his own creative writing and literary criticism.

If you do not identify the source in your summary sentence:

One critic has examined the roles of women in Thomas Hardy's novels (Morris).
Seventeenth-century Dutch wives and husbands had clearly defined roles to fulfill in their marriages (Franits).

2. PARAPHASE: Write a sentence paraphrasing - in your own words - one or two specific sentences contained in one your *paginated* sources, and integrating a correct in-text citation of the source paraphrased, including page number on which the paraphrased sentence/s can be found in this source: in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.
See also BR Ch. 10b "Paraphrase" (pp. 135-138), including "Tutorial: How do I paraphrase a source?" (p. 137); Ch. 13c: "How can I integrate paraphrases?" (pp. 181-183),.

*PAGINATED* source = print source having fixed/stable page numbers, OR a .pdf document
which reproduces a scanned (photo)copy of a print source with fixed/stable page numbers.

2.A. APA-Style PARAPHRASE In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:
NOTE: While APA style does not necessarily require that a page number be cited in-text after paraphrases from paginated sources, Cora recommends that you do so in WR 123 assignments.

If you identify the source in your paraphrase :

Greenfield and Savage-Rumbaugh (1990) have acknowledged that Kanzi's linguistic development was slower than that of a human child (p. 567).
Kirby (2004) found that the policy makers for the Caswell County local government were not receptive to the needs of the African American men in her study (p. 4).

If you do not identify the source in your paraphrase:

Kanzi's linguistic development was slower than that of a human child (Greenfield & Savage-Rumbaugh, 1990, p. 567).
Policy makers for the Caswell County local government were not receptive to the needs of African American men in one study (Kirby, 2004, p. 4).

2.B. MLA-Style PARAPHRASE In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

If you identify the source in your paraphrase:

First-year students on financial aid at Brown University benefit from new policies adopted by BUOFA (Brown University Office of Financial Aid): these students are not expected to work during the first year of their financial aid package (12) and are awarded a one-time grant to help compensate for the income lost by not working during this first year (14).
Herbert Norfleet maintains that the use of video games by children improves their hand and eye coordination (45).

If you do not identify the source in your paraphrase:

First-year students awarded financial aid packages by Brown University Office of Financial Aid are given one-time grants so that they do not have to work during their first year of study (BUOFA 14, 12).
Use of video games can improve children's hand-eye coordination, according to one researcher (Norfleet 45).

3. SHORT DIRECT QUOTATION (less than 5 lines regular formatted text or fewer than 40 words): Write a sentence containing a short direct quotation enclosed in quotation marks, from one of your *paginated* sources, and integrating a correct in-text citation of the source quoted, including page number on which the quoted passage can be found in this source: in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.
See BR Ch. 10b "Quote Directly" (pp. 133-135), including subsections on "Modifying a Direct Quotation Using an Ellipsis" (pp. 133-134) and "Modifiying a Direct Quotation Using Brackets" (pp. 134-135); and
See also BR Ch. 13b "How can I integrate quotations?" (pp. 177-181), including subsections on how to "Use Partial, Complete, and Block Quotations" (pp. 177-178), how to "Provide a Context for Your Quotations" (pp. 177-180) including a list of key verbs you can use in introducing your attributions; and how to "Punctuate Quotations" (pp. 180-181

*PAGINATED* source = print source having fixed/stable page numbers, OR a .pdf document
which reproduces a scanned (photo)copy of a print source with fixed/stable page numbers.

3.A. APA-Style SHORT QUOTATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

If you identify the source in your short quotation:

Ann Gill (2001) has argued, "Education reform is the best solution for fixing our public schools" (p. 22).
According to Jones and Miller (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
Hart (1996) notes that some primatologists became convinced that their "apes had learned Language, with a capital L" (p. 109).

If you do not identify the source in your short quotation:

"Education is the best solution for fixing our public schools" (Gill, 2001, p. 22).
"Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (Jones & Miller, 1998, p. 199).
Some primatologists "wondered if apes had learned Language, with a capital L" (Hart, 1996, p. 109).

3.B. MLA-Style SHORT QUOTATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

If you identify the source in your short quotation:

Ann Gill argues, "Education reform is the best solution for fixing our public schools" (22).
"The mental gymnastics of video games and the competition with fellow players," according to Norfleet, "are important to young children and their physical, social, and mental development" (45).
Redelmeier and Tibshirani have found that "the risk of a collision when using a cellular telephone was four times higher than the risk when a cellular telephone was not being used" (453).

If you do not identify the source in your short quotation:

"Education is the best solution for fixing our public schools" (Gill 22).
"The mental gymnastics of video games and the competition with fellow players are important to young children and their physical, social, and mental development" (Norfleet 45).
Researchers have found that "the risk of a collision when using a cellular telephone was four times higher than the risk when a cellular telephone was not being used" (Redelmeier and Tibshirani 453).

Extra Credit Option: Use ellipsis points . . . and brackets [ ] correctly
in your short and/or long direct quotation example/s.

4. LONG "BLOCK" QUOTATION (5 + lines of regular formatted text, or more than 40 words): Write a sentence or phrase to introduce a long "block" quotation, properly formatted (i.e. blocked = indented) from one of your sources, and integrating a correct in-text citation of the source quoted, including page number if the source is paginated: in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.
See BR Ch. 13b: "Block Quotations" (p. 178): NOTE: Because long "Block" quotations are set off by indentation [i.e. "blocked"], quotation marks are NOT needed.

4.A. APA-Style LONG "BLOCK" QUOTATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:
NOTE: Indent the long quotation 5 spaces or 1/2 inch from the left margin.

When asked what parents and coaches could do to help girl athletes remain healthy and not use drugs or overwork themselves, Juan Orozco (2004) offered the following advice:

An athlete should be happy in her activity of choice, and her parents should encourage her
desires to do well. Parents should be involved in her life and let her know that her efforts
are valued highly, but they also need to be on the lookout for danger signs—such as unusual
weight loss or moodiness. As a coach, I need to know the personalities of my players and
get them to trust me, not only as their coach but as their friend—someone they can talk to
if they have a problem. (Personal communication, September 22, 2004)

While a few online romances have happy endings, Miller (1996) explains that most do not:

From my research, only about one in four online relationships turns out happy. People get
into this bodice-ripping mentality in the beginning [of online relationships]. But after you've
had "sex" with someone in the virtual way, there's a real desire to actually be intimate.
When the two do meet, the relationship can't handle reality. Either the affair ends or it
destroys their marriages. (p. 39)

If you do not identify the source in introduction to the long "block" quotation:

While a few online romances have happy endings, most do not:

4.B. MLA-Style LONG "BLOCK" QUOTATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:

Yet throughout his soliloquy Hamlet seems to be acting, and Shakespearian scholar Harold Bloom stresses that idea:
                So histrionic is all of Hamlet that we need to develop our auditory consciousness
                to a new pitch, if we catch the prince's accent here. Where all is theatricality,
                our grounds for judgment must shift. Hamlet's hyperboles mock theater itself,
                in "drown the stage with tears." The soliloquy becomes a hyperparody of
                soliloquy . . . . (30).

While a few online romances have happy endings, Miller explains that most do not:

From my research, only about one in four online relationships turns out happy. People get
into this bodice-ripping mentality in the beginning [of online relationships]. But after you've
had "sex" with someone in the virtual way, there's a real desire to actually be intimate.
When the two do meet, the relationship can't handle reality. Either the affair ends or it
destroys their marriages. (39)

If you do not identify the source in introduction to the long "block" quotation:

While a few online romances have happy endings, most do not:

From my research, only about one in four online relationships turns out happy. People get
into this bodice-ripping mentality in the beginning [of online relationships]. But after you've
had "sex" with someone in the virtual way, there's a real desire to actually be intimate.
When the two do meet, the relationship can't handle reality. Either the affair ends or it
destroys their marriages. (Miller 39)

5. INDIRECT CITATION: SOURCE QUOTED/CITED IN ANOTHER SOURCE.
This type of in-text citation is best explained through examples (see below). Again in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.

5.A. APA-Style INDIRECT CITATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:
See BR Ch. 19a - item "9. Source Quoted in Another Source" (p. 278).

Massie and Rosenthal (2002) studied home movies of children diagnosed with autism, but could reach no conclusions because the dating and quality of the videotapes were uncertain (as cited in Osterling & Dawson, 2003, p. 248).
Beyond middle school, students begin to resent their parents' interference in school activities. Greenberg (2005) observes, "The interventions can be construed by the adolescent as negative, overburdening and interfering with the child's ability to care for himself" (as cited in Peterson, 2006, p. 9A).
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5.B. MLA-Style INDIRECT CITATION In-Text Citation EXAMPLES:
See BR Ch. 18a - item "14. Source Quoted in Another Source" (p. 246).

If you identify the source in your short quotation:

Massie and Rosenthal studied home movies of children diagnosed with autism, but could reach no conclusions because the dating and quality of the videotapes were uncertain (qtd. in Osterling and
Dawson 248).
Beyond middle school, students begin to resent their parents' interference in school activities. Martin Greenberg observes, "The interventions can be construed by the adolescent as negative, overburdening and interfering with the child's ability to care for himself" (qtd. in Peterson 9A).
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6. QUOTATION FROM AN UNPAGINATED SOURCE.
UNPAGINATED = a print source without page numbers (e.g. a brochure), a sacred text (chapter & verse), a personal communication, a web page or html document without stable/fixed page numbers, "Field Sources" (e.g. a lecture) or "Media Sources (e.g. a film). Again in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.

6.A. APA-Style QUOTATION from an UNPAGINATED SOURCE In-Text Citation EXAMPLES: See BR Ch. 19a - items "10. Source with No Page Numbers," "12. Email and Other Personal Communication," "13. Web Site or Document from a Web Site" (pp. 278-279).

Informal Personal Communication:

"Students willing to ask questions and seek extra help when they are confused, often do better in their writing courses," reported Writing 123 instructor Cora Agatucci (personal communication, October 5, 2004).

Internet Source: Full-text article in .html format from Subscription-Only electronic database source without fixed page numbers but with chapter/section headings that can be clearly identified and/or paragraphs that can be clearly counted:

Marais (2000) explains that, because of a preoccupation with reflecting "substantive changes in history . . . . forms of social realism have usually be favored by politically engaged fiction writers in the South African context" (par. 1).
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6.B. MLA-Style QUOTATION from an UNPAGINATED SOURCE In-Text Citation EXAMPLES: See BR Ch. 18a - items "15. Print Source without Page Numbers," "16. Electronic or Nonprint Source," "12. Sacred Text " (pp. 246-247).

Internet Source: World Wide Web source without fixed page numbers and no countable
embedded paragraphs:

"The California Highway Patrol opposes restrictions on the use of cell phones while driving, claiming that distracted drivers can already be prosecuted" (Jacobs).

Videotape or Feature Film:

In the film Keita: Heritage of the Griot, Djeliba, the great griot, often recites wisdom proverbs, such as "you can’t run and scratch your foot at the same time."
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7. CITATION FROM A SOURCE WITH NO AUTHOR ["UNSIGNED"] OR BY A GROUP AUTHOR. Write a sentence containing a citation (can be a summary, paraphrase or quotation) from a source with no author or from a source by a group or corporate author. Again in-text source citation must be correctly formatted following your approved documentation style and clearly match-able to the first word/s of the corresponding full bibliographical entry for that source in your accompanying Annotated Working Bibliography.

7.A. APA-Style CITATION FROM A SOURCE WITH NO AUTHOR In-Text Citation EXAMPLES: See BR Ch. 19a - items "6. Corporate or Group Author" and "7. Unknown Author" (p. 278).

According to a BBC television program (Chimps, 1999), chimpanzees at sites in West Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda exhibit culture-specific patterns of behavior when grooming one another.
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7.B. MLA-Style CITATION FROM A SOURCE WITH NO AUTHOR In-Text Citation EXAMPLES: See BR Ch. 18a - items "4. Corporate or Group Author" and "5. Unknown Author" (p. 245).

As of 2001, at least three hundred towns and municipalities had considered legislation regulating use of cell phones while driving ("Lawmakers" 2).

One web source claims that any diet that avoids carbohydrates will avoid carbohydrates will avoid some sugars that are essential for the body ("Fad Diets").

EVALUATION CRITERIA

In-Text Citation "Test," together with your alphabetized Annotated Working Bibliography, will be used to assess your competency in:
___1. Avoiding plagiarism when summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting from sources, by . . .
___2. Following In-Text Citation practices of an accepted academic documentation system - e.g. APA or MLA - approved for the student's research topic; and, thus . . .
___3. Citing sources in-text so that they can be clearly & easily matched to (the beginnings of) relevant full bibliographical entries on the cited sources given in alphabetized Annotated Working Bibliography, correctly formatted according to APA References or MLA Works Cited conventions.

Relevant WR 123 Learning Objectives (as stated in WR 123 Syllabus):

Learning Outcome 3: Develop a research system that avoids plagiarism and fairly represents sources by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing with appropriate documentation.
Learning Outcome 6: Develop awareness of differing citation and bibliographic systems from various academic disciplines and develop competence in one system [e.g. APA or MLA] most appropriate for a specific research-based academic paper.

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