Good Citation
Good Mechanics
The following are all good citation techniques. Refer to this list if you’re ever in doubt about how to cite and briefly quote in the same short sentence.
All these good example contain several essentials of good citation.
- They identify the AUTHOR
- They identify the TITLE of the article, essay, or story
- They could contain the name of the publication also, but they don’t.
- They contain a QUOTATION
- They could contain a PARAPHRASE instead, without quotation marks.
- They also have SAID language
- SAID, BELIEVES, CLAIMS, ASSERTS, INSISTS, or countless other varieties of SAID.
Examples
- Daniel Flath, in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that “boys can’t learn from women.”
- Author, in “Title,” said that “quote.”
- Daniel Flath claims, in “Boylan’s Folly,” that “boys can’t learn from women.”
- Author claims, in “Title,” that “quote.”
- In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath claims, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
- In Author’s essay, “Title,” Author claims, “Quote.”
- In his essay, “Title,” Author claims, “Quote.”
- In “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
- In “Title,” Author claims: “Quote.”
- Daniel Flath thinks “boys can’t learn from women.” He makes this and other outrageous claims in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly.”
- Author says “quote.” He makes this claim in essay, “Title.”
- That “boys can’t learn from women” is one of the outrageous claims Daniel Flath makes in “Boylan’s Folly.”
- That “subject verbs” is a claim Author makes in “Title.”
- “Boys can’t learn from women,” according to Daniel Flath in “Boylan’s Folly.”
- “Quote,” according to Author in “Title.”
Flawed Mechanics
Fix the errors in these citations by typing corrected versions into the Reply field below. Number your sentences 1, 2, and 3.
- In his essay, Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly,” says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
- The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath: “Boys can’t learn from women”.
- In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” is said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
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Counterintuitive Fall 2021 
1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims that “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. In “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3. In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath claims, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. Daniel Flath, in “Boylan’s Folly”, claims that “boys can’t learn form women.”
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Nope.
You err three times in a way that I’ve explained about 5 times in class.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims that “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. In “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath claims, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. Daniel Flath, in “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that “boys can’t learn form women.”
Thank you for the feedback! I believe I have fixed the 3 errors. I hope these are better!
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1. Daniel Flath, in “Boylan’s Folly,” says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3. In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” is said that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. Daniel Flath thinks “boys can’t learn from women.” He makes this claim in “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
If you’re going to both describe a person and name him, you’ll need to set off the second with commas. You also make another error you should be sick of hearing about by now. 🙂
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1: In his essay “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2: The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath, claims “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3: In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” he declares, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4: “Boys can’t learn from women,” remarks Daniel Flath in his essay “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
2 out of 4 are correct.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In the essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” by Daniel Flath, Flath says, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. “Boys can’t learn from women,” claims Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
If you’re going to both describe a person and name him, you’ll need to set off the second with commas.
Your other error is a little-understood rule you probably heard of for the first time in class.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. In Daniel Flath’s essay “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath states “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3.In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” is said that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4, Dylan Flath thinks “boys can’t learn from women.” He states this in his essay “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is entirely correct.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. In “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In Daniel Flath’s “Boylan’s Folly,” it is said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. Daniel Flath makes the claim that “Boys can’t learn from women.” in his essay “Boylan’s Folly”
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Nope.
You make errors I could not have predicted.
Number 3, for example, confuses readers about who you’re quoting.
The other errors are more common.
Want to try again?
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1. In “Boylan’s” Folly,” Daniel Flath says that, “Boys can’t learn from women”.
2. In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” he says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. Daniel Flath thinks that “boys can’t learn from women.” He claims this in “Boylan’s Folly.”
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This is odd. You got the rule right once and broke it twice.
I can’t be sure whether you know the rule or not.
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1) Daniel Flath, in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly”, says that, “Boys can’t learn from women”.
2) Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly”, claims that “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3) It is said in “Boylan’s Folly”, the essay by Daniel Flath, that “Boys can’t learn from women”.
4) Daniel Flath claims that “Boys can’t learn from women” in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly”.
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Nope.
You seem completely determined to break a rule I have emphasized so many times in class that you should be sick of hearing about it by now.
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In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath, says that “boys can’t learn from women.”
The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath says “Boys can’t learn from women”.
In the essay “Boylan’s Folly,” by Daniel Flath, he said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
Daniel Flath says “Boys can’t learn from women” in his essay “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
But your errors are unique and creative.
In one sentence, you introduce a completely unnecessary comma.
In another you twice break a rule I’ve emphasized in class so many times you should be sick of hearing about it.
In the others, needed commas are missing.
Not one of the four is completely correct.
Care to try again?
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1. Daniel Flath, in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that, “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women”
3. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims, “boys can’t learn from women.”
4. Daniel Flath, author of “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that, “boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is completely correct.
Care to try again?
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1. Daniel Flath, in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. In “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath claims, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. “Boys can’t learn from women,” according to Daniel Flath in “Boylan’s Folly.”
Hopefully this is better! Thanks for the feedback!
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1. In the essay “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath claims that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” he said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. In “Boylan’s Folly,” written by Daniel Flath, he claims that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
You’re two for four.
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1. In his essay, Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly,” says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
In Daniel Flaths essay, “Boylan’s Folly”, he says that “boys can’t learn from women.
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath: “Boys can’t learn from women”.
Daniel Flath, the auther of “Boylans Folly”, claims that “Boys can’t learn from women”.
3. In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” is said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
In the essay “boylans Folly”, Daniel Flaths says that “Boys can’t learn from women”.
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Nope.
Not even close on the first three.
Your fourth is missing.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” author Daniel Flath says that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly,” claims that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In the essay “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath, says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4. One of the claims made in Daniel Flath’s “Boylan’s Folley,” is that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is completely correct.
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In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” David Flath claims that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
The author of “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
In David Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” it is said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
“Boys can’t learn from women” is what David Flath insists on this claim in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
A wide variety of small errors here, one of which is getting the author’s name wrong three times. But fixing that won’t make your punctuation correct.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly”, the author, Daniel Flath, says that, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2. Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly”: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In the essay, “Boylan’s Folly”, by Daniel Flath, its said, “Boys can’t learn from women”
4. Daniel Flath says, “Boys can’t learn from women.”, in the essay he wrote called “Boylan’s Folly”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is completely correct, and some are correct for multiple reasons.
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” David Flath claims “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath, declares “boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In Daniel Flath’s essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Flath states “boys can’t learn from women.”
4. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” author Daniel Flath boldly claims “boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
There may be other errors, but this set of sentences at the very least makes the same mistake every time.
Care to correct that one mistake four times and then look for others?
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1) In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2) Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly,” states, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3) In the essay by Daniel Flath, “Boylan’s Folly,” he says, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4) According to Daniel Flath, in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” “Boys can’t learn from women.”
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1. In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” David Flath claims “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly”, states “boys can’t learn from women.”
3. Daniel Flath claims “Boys can’t learn from women” in his essay “Boylan’s Folly.”
4. A claim that Daniel Flath made in his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” was “boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is completely correct.
Care to try again?
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1) In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2) In “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath claims: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3) In Daniel Flath’s “Boylan’s Folly,” it is said, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4) “Boys can’t learn from women,” as stated by Daniel Flath in “Boylan’s Folly.”
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Nope.
You got one right.
And in another, which is correctly punctuated, we can’t tell who you’re quoting.
The other two have flat-out punctuation errors.
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1.) In his essay, “Boylan’s Folly,” Daniel Flath says that “Boys can’t learn from women.”
2.) Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly” claims that, “Boys can’t learn from Women.”
3.) In the essay “Boylan Folly” by Daniel Flath it says “Boys can’t learn from women.”
4.) In the essay “Boylan Folly” written by Daniel Flath he writes that “boys can’t learn from women”
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Nope.
Not one of the four is correct.
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1. Daniel Flath, the author of “Boylan’s Folly”, claims that, “boys can’t learn from women.”
2. The author of “Boylan’s Folly”, Daniel Flath, states: “Boys can’t learn from women.”
3. In the essay “Boylan’s Folly”, the author, Daniel Flath asserts, “Boys can’t learn from women.”
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Nope.
Not one of the three is correct.
The fourth is missing.
Care to try again?
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