{"id":40,"date":"2017-10-12T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T00:31:24","slug":"tips-on-quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/tips-on-quotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotations<\/strong>:\u00a0You may quote sections from the work(s) that you are considering in your paper. Be sure to specify the page number. It is often useful to include a few quotations to assure the reader that you are sensitive to the text, but too many quotations are distracting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paraphrases<\/strong>: If you paraphrase an idea from another source, footnote it as if it was a quotation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong>: Include references at the end of your paper where needed (when you quote out of a book or article). Use whatever professional style you are most comfortable with. My favorite is the American Psychological Association journal style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">Rummelhart, D., &amp; McClelland, J. (1986).\u00a0<i>Parallel Distributed Processing<\/i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">Smolensky, P. (1990). Tensor product variable binding and representation of symbolic structures in connectionist systems.\u00a0<i>Artificial Intelligence<\/i>,\u00a0<i>46<\/i>, 159-216.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ideas due to Others<\/strong>: If someone gives you an idea, or if you have a lengthy and illuminating conversation with someone on the topic of your paper, be sure to credit her in a footnote.\u00a0 You may simply write, for instance, &#8220;This idea is due to Professor Jana Sawicki, in conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotations:\u00a0You may quote sections from the work(s) that you are considering in your paper. Be sure to specify the page number. It is often useful to include a few quotations to assure the reader that you are sensitive to the text, but too many quotations are distracting. Paraphrases: If you paraphrase an idea from another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/tips-on-quotations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips on Quotations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}