Using Quotations and Paraphrases in APA （在APA使用直接或间接引语）.pdf

The UNB Writing Centre Contact us 16/17 C. C. Jones Student Services Centre Phone: (506) 453-4527 26 Bailey Drive, Box 4400 (506) 452-6346 Fredericton, NB Canada, E3B 5A3 Email: wss@unb.ca Using Quotations and Paraphrases in APA Format Keep careful notes to ensure that you are always able to pinpoint precisely the origins of your ideas and your arguments. Support for your statements can be established by several means. One can, without citation, call upon the general store of common knowledge, although this is not a useful source for technical ideas or detailed judgments. Paraphrased references to concepts in published sources are common. Evidence can also be presented through quotation. Paraphrase Paraphrase is the description of someone elses ideas in your own words, and is the most common way information is cited in APA-style papers. Proper paraphrasing is a skill. You must not only acknowledge your debt but re-compose the original in your own words . Here is a quoted passage: “Particularly controversial has been the balance of two contributing sources of information: item-to- item associations and item-to-context associations. The latter refers to information about the words, such as their position in a spatial or temporal stream” (Franklin Mewhort, 2015, p. 115). Here is a paraphrase of part of this passage: The extent to which item-to-item and item-to-context associations affect the organization of memory is still debated (Franklin Mewhort, 2015, p. 115). Note: The citation for the quoted passage includes a page number; although this is not an absolute requirement for a paraphrase, it is recommended. Remember that if you repeat a number of key words from the original, even in a different order, you are guilty of unacknowledged quotation—plagiarism, the most serious academic offence. Here, “item-to- item associations” an