Citation how to steal and get away with

Citation how to steal and get away with it.

Let’s Clarify Something • When I say: “How to steal” I mean this only works in one environment. • You only get to steal some information. Not a lot • Also, this only is allowed when you’re writing about something. • (so don’t get too excited, ‘cause you can’t do this for your homework or your job or whatever. )

Quotes and Quotations • Quotations are famous sayings. • Quotes are something different. • Whatever you steal goes in between “quotation marks” and becomes “a quote. ” • What you steal for your essay does not have to be something a character said out loud. You can steal a sentence that is a description. • And if you do, that’s called a “quote, ” too.

Why do it? • Ok, good question. I’m glad you asked! • You do it to prove that you’re correct about something. • Or to prove a point. • Or maybe to strengthen a point. • Right now you’re probably thinking: “‘Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible. . . but that doesn’t make it true. ’” (Kafka, Description of a Struggle”) • (Kafka

OMG DID YOU SEE THAT? • I totally stole something back there! • Let’s take another look at it. • See how I used that quote (that I totally stole) to back myself up? To strengthen my point? • Then, did you see that I CITED it? • Sweet, let’s talk about citation.

To Cite or not to Cite? • The answer is: Always to cite. • Any time you take something from another author, you have to give credit. That’s what citation is. • The Citation follows a quote, and is placed in parentheses (like this). note, it’s before the period. • The Citation is: • (Author’s Last Name and the Page #)

So, you’re writing. . . • Coraline goes walking out of the house in the other world, looking for whatever else exists outside of it. She’s trying to escape, but the other world comes across as lifeless and dead. She goes walking into “a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room. It had no temperature, no smell, no texture and no taste” (Gaiman 51). She walked straight into this colorless fog until, oddly, she came back to the house. It was then that Coraline realized that the other world was just like a snow globe, and that the other mother and other father only wanted to keep her for the same reasons people keep snow globes: as a decoration, only for display. Make sure that you explain why the quote is there. You use the quote to back yourself up, to strengthen what you say, or to prove you’re correct, but you have to keep going. Also, a bit of a side note: If you begin or end a paragraph with a quote, I’m going to call you names. Behind your back. And probably to your face, too.