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Do you have to put in-text citations if you paraphrased something?
How about when you write something you read from a variety of sources but it's not from any specific book/ website? Like a compilation? Do you need to in-text cite this too?
3 Answers
- Anonymous5 years ago
Yes, you have to cite the source of your information, even if you just paraphrase it rather than quoting it. And if you got the information from multiple sources, you have to cite all the sources you got it from.
You don't seem to have a clue what citations are actually used for. They are not just a silly game your teacher made up to torture you with. They are actually used for various purposes by people who read scholarly articles and books.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Yes. You need to cite your source of the information even if you are changing it around. Paraphrasing someone else's work and passing it off as your own is plagiarism.
If you don't think you wont get caught - I know somebody who did this from a book, unacknowledged, only to find that his external tutor was the same author. Oops.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
Not if you're paraphrasing. You could say, "To paraphrase so-n-so," and then add your paraphrase.
