The student’s sample final essay and annotated bibliography that you reviewed yesterday in class included quotations from print sources without the required parenthetical citations. Remember that all of your sources except your interview (your nonprint source) should include parenthetical citations. If the source is paginated, include the page number in parentheses. If the source isn’t paginated included the abbreviation par. followed by the paragraph number in parentheses. Include the author’s name in parenetheses as well if he or she is not named in the signal phrase.
Examples
According to the author of “Scrabble is a Lousy Game,” it “treats language the way computers do—as arbitrarily ordered codes stored in a memory chip” (Kay, par. 7).
In Kay’s words, “Scrabble treats language the way computers do—as arbitrarily ordered codes stored in a memory chip” (par. 7).
The author of “Tabletop Games and 21st Century Skills Practice in the Undergraduate Classroom” observes that “two of the four Cs, communication and collaboration, figured prominently” (Hayse 298).
In “Tabletop Games and 21st Century Skills Practice in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Mark Hayse observes that “two of the four Cs, communication and collaboration, figured prominently” (298).
Note that the parenthetical citation with the author’s name and the page number does not include a comma but the parenthetical citation with the author’s name and the paragraph number does include one.
Quoting an Indirect Source
In the sample final essay and annotated bibliography, the student writer quotes the article “The Case for Writing Longhand,” but the words the student quotes aren’t those of the article’s writer, Sarah Bahr; they’re the words of Sam Anderson, one of the writers interviewed by Bahr. The quotation and its parenthetical citation should have appeared in one of these two ways:
In Bahr’s supports interview with Sam Anderson, a New York Times writer, Anderson says, “[H]e likes that the process slows him down and puts him in touch with his thoughts” (qtd. in par. 5).
Sam Anderson, a New York Times writer, says, “[H]e likes that the process slows him down and puts him in touch with his thoughts” (qtd. in Bahr, par. 5).
Works Cited
Bahr, Sarah. “The Case for Writing Longhand.” The New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022. ProQuest, https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/loginurl=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/case-writing-longhand/docview/2621453011/se-2.
Hayse, Mark. “Tabletop Games and 21st Century Skill Practice in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Teaching Theology & Religion, vol. 21, no. 4, 2018, pp. 288–
302., https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.highpoint.edu /doi/epdf/10.1111/teth.12456.
Kay, Jonathan. Review. “Scrabble is a Lousy Game.” The Wall Street Journal, 4 Oct.
2018. ProQuest, https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com /newspapers/scrabble-is-lousy-game-why-would-anyone- play/docview/2116081665/se- 2?accountid=11411.
Next Up
In class tomorrow, you will have additional time for locating sources and composing annotations for your own final essay and annotated bibliography.
Jane Lucas 