APA questions and a personal example

APA questions and a personal example

APA questions and a personal example

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University Name Question 1 : If you change part of a direct quote , how do you indicate to the reader that you changed the original writer 's words

Ans . Original writer 's words are not used in writing because it counts as plagiarism , however the same views can be expressed by the writer in his / her own words . For rewriting the quotation in your own word , one has to do an in-text citation which gives

credit to the original writer of the idea . This prevents any form of plagiarism which basically refers to stealing other peoples work . This also shows the amount of effort and research one puts in his work as well as give it a formal look

Question 2 : How do you reference two different articles written by the same author in the same year

Ans . In case there is more than one reference by an author in the same year , suffixes (a , b , c , etc ) are added to the year which shows that the same author has written two articles from which relevant ideas have been taken . The allocation of the suffixes is determined by the of the references in the reference list . Suffixes are also included in the reference list , and these references are listed alphabetically by title If cited together , list by suffix as shown below (writer , 2000b (Later in the text (Writer , 2000a (Writer , 1992a , 1992b

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