ENGL147 Week 3 | General English in English - Chamberlain university

Question 10Which of the following is an acceptable practice when using sources in a single essay? Once you have used a source in your essay, quoting or paraphrasing, it becomes common knowledge and need not be cited in-text again. For example, if you use and cite a source on page 2 of your essay, you do not need to cite it in-text when you use it again on page 4. If your source does not have page numbers, which is sometimes the case even for scholarly articles, then you are not required to provide any information in your in-text citation beyond the author’s name and year when quoting directly from the article. When quoting or paraphrasing, as long as you make it clear that you are “passing the microphone” to a source by using signal phrases and transitional phrasing to indicate that you are no longer speaking, you have met the minimum requirement for avoiding plagiarism. You should never assume that your reader understands which source you are referring to. You must be your reader’s guide; you must use a combination of your own voice and careful, correct citation to introduce and document sources.