Wednesday, October 12, 2011
When do you do parenthetical citations? Is it necessary when you mention the name of the author in the sentence?
It is always needed to do parenthetical citations whenever you use information outside of your brain. Anything you get from books, online, magazines, novels... are need to be cited with the author's name, and where the source came from. There are many kinds of citation. It is necessary to state where the source came from, even though you mentioned the author's name in the sentence. Any words (except common knowledge) from sources are needed to be quoted and with the author's name. The first time you mention a person, you need to state who that person is. For example, Diana Hacker, author of the book "Rules for Writers", said that "It is not always necessary to quote full sentences from a source" (419). In this case, if you use Diana Hacker's idea again, you do not have to mention who she is again. But it is necessary to cite the page and her name. If you use foot notes you can cite sources without saying the name of the author and pages by a number, but you will have to state all the sources at the end of the paper. (This maybe not accurate because it is from my memory). You can find many ways to cite sources in Diana Hacker's book, or online.
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1. When do you do parenthetical citations? Is it necessary when you mention the name of the author?
ReplyDeleteYou use parenthetical citations when you take the words of any text and put it in your piece of writing. If you already mention the author’s name and his text’s title then you just have to write the page number in parenthesis and you wont have to do the parenthetical citation. But the name of the author by itself it’s not enough, you have to use parenthetical citations.