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Mr. Wonderful

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When citing somebody else's words or ideas in your research report, how should that citation be done?
 
  A) By putting the complete citation in the reference section.
  B) By putting the citation in a footnote.
  C) By putting the citation author and date in parenthesis directly after the material cited.
  D) By putting the author and date citation in parenthesis after the material cited and the complete citation in the reference section.

Question 2

What is the best solution when you want to use information from a particular article and have only read about that article in a secondary source?
 
  A) It is okay to pretend you have read the primary source and cite it in your report.
  B) You should go ahead and act like you got the information from the primary source, but cite it as having been found in the secondary source.
  C) You should go back and read the primary source if at all possible so that you can cite it.
  D) You should never cite any information unless you have read the primary source.



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kkenney

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C




Mr. Wonderful

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
:D TYSM


amandanbreshears

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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